Surf’s Up Studios and Coronado Summer Art Intensives present a special movie screening engagement of Daydream Hotel in the main auditorium at the historic Coronado Village Theatre on Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 11:00am. The Daydream Hotel screening will be followed by a panel discussion of the making of the film with the movie’s director, producers, cast and crew.
The 77-minute feature film is produced by Surfs’s Up Studios in association with the Coronado School of the Arts and the Hotel del Coronado.
The student-produced 2016 version of the film was the Student Feature Film Grand Winner at the first annual Coronado Island Film Festival. To date, the 2017 director’s cut of Daydream Hotel has won awards at five film festivals across the nation including the California Films GOLD Award and La Jolla’s Accolade Global Film Competition Feature Film Award. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) gives Daydream Hotel a 9 out of 10 Rating.
Daydream Hotel is the first motion picture to be filmed at the world famous Hotel del Coronado in decades. Peter O’Toole made The Stuntman at the iconic hotel in 1979. In 1958, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon joined director Billy Wilder at the Hotel Del to film Some Like It Hot.
More than a dozen cast and crew members of Daydream Hotel are Coronado students and alumni of the Coronado Summer Art Intensives – which happens again this year for three weeks in July. Many San Diego veteran actors are also featured.
Daydream Hotel is a collaboration with the film students from Coronado School of the Arts (CoSA), a nationally acclaimed, award winning arts school located on the campus of Coronado High School in beautiful Coronado, just over the bridge from San Diego. In addition to their school year curriculum, CoSA offers three-week summer intensives in performing and visual arts every July.
To obtain Daydream Hotel movie tickets, come by the Coronado Village Theatre at 820 Orange Avenue on Saturday, May 13th from 11am to 4pm.
The Daydream Hotel director and cast will be on hand to give out a limited supply of movie tickets for a donation of $10 per ticket. All funds go toward film festival submission fees for future screenings of the movie across the country.
Daydream Hotel is directed by Tony Perri, the producer and director of Serotonin Rising (Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra) and School of Thought (David Lynch and Paul McCartney).
In the fantasy/comedy, Daydream Hotel takes you on a journey into the summer of 2022. A Nebraska girl, Maddie Portman, discovers a million-dollar Gold Pass to the Daydream Hotel, where lucky guests are digitally transformed into the fantasy character of their choice.
But when Maddie decides to be transformed into a mermaid (in a secret mission to save a real-life mermaid being held captive), she has no idea that on the night of her transformation a devious plot is put into action by a competing hotel owner, Betty Blackstone.
Betty and her henchman, Harry Canon, creep into the hotel’s frightening underground tunnel and attempt to steal the valuable Ignitor Rod – the device required to fire-up the digital transformation energy source. But the duo’s evil deed goes terribly wrong when the Ignitor Rod hits an exposed wire blowing out the Digital Transformation power grid.
Chaos ensues up above and Maddie the mermaid gets hit with a massive jolt of electricity stranding her in the cold and dark Pacific Ocean.
