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Arts Announcements ~ A Service Of Your Arts Council
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Arts Announcements ~ A Service Of Your Arts Council
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COYOTE FILM FESTIVAL
AT CALPINE GEOTHERMAL VISITOR’S CENTER Saturday, August 16 |
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Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea, an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban Southern California. This award-winning film from directors Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer details the rise and fall of the Salton Sea, from its heyday as the "California Riviera" where boaters and Beach Boys mingled in paradise to its present state as a decaying, forgotten ecological disaster.
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From wonderland to wasteland, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA captures a place far more interesting than the shopping malls and parking lots of suburban America, a wacky world where a beer-swilling Hungarian Revolutionary, a geriatric nudist, and a religious zealot building a monument to God all find solace and community.
Crisply and hilariously narrated by oddball auteur John Waters, and featuring music by desert lounge rockers Friends of Dean Martinez, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA melds high camp with stark realism, offering both a sobering message about the consequences of tampering with nature and a heart-warming tale of individualism.. |
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Coyote will also feature Animation! The program runs approx. 90 minutes.
Parental discretion is advised (nudity, language). Cost at door is $10.00 /adult - $5.00 / 16 and under. Doors open half hour before screening. Coyote Popcorn and refreshments for sale. There is time for lunch or dinner at any of the restaurants in and around Middletown as well as picnicking at the benches and tables on the Calpine grounds. |
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In September Coyote Film Festival is screening “Sherman’s Way”, a romantic comedy partly shot in Lake County and winning independent festival awards. Director Craig Saavedra will be on hand and we are working out all the details.
See you Saturday, August 16th! |
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