The feature film is “Past Lives,” the directorial debut of Celine Song, and an A24 production.
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Coronado High’s Ellinger premieres film at Coronado Island Film Fest
Coronado High School senior Hayden Ellinger premieres his WWI period piece “With Valor” at the Coronado Island Film Festival.
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The Coronado Island Film Festival kicks off with Taste of the Festival
The start of the Coronado Island Film Festival was marked with good food and music to kickoff the long weekend. celebration.
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CIFF to screen Humanity Stoked: a skateboard documentary on the human experience
The screening will take place Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. at the Coronado Performing Arts Center with a pre-party with Vans and Wahoo’s Fish Tacos preceding the film at 2:30 p.m.
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Former Coronado librarian and author Christian Esquevin dives into Hollywood’s Golden Age
Esquevin is presenting his book at the John D. Spreckels Hospitality Center to help kick off the 2023 Coronado Island Film Festival at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9, where his research will be highlighted.
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Coronado Island Film Festival announces gala honorees
The Coronado Island Film Festival, which runs Nov. 8-12, has announced its 2023 Leonard Maltin Industry Tribute Awards Gala Honorees. Presided over film critic and historian Leonard Maltin, the gala brings together glitz and glamor to honor both industry legends as well as rising stars, according to the film festival. This year’s honorees include Diane […]
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Coronado Film Fest presents San Diego premiere of “Black Barbie”
The Coronado Island Film Festival will host the San Diego premiere of “Black Barbie” from Netflix and Shondaland on Nov. 11 at the Village Theatre, 820 Orange Ave.
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Leonard Maltin to host Coronado Island Film Festival gala
Film historian and critic Leonard Maltin shares highlights from his illustrious career with The Coronado News.
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“THE BIG DUMP,” an ocean sewage crisis documentary will play at CIFF
The Coronado Island Film Festival will be screening “THE BIG DUMP – OUR PACIFIC OCEAN IN CRISIS” on Nov. 10. “THE BIG DUMP” is a powerful documentary that discusses the urgent Pacific Ocean sewage crisis stemming from the Mexican border into San Diego waters, according to CIFF officials. It will be shown at 1 p.m. […]
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Carolynn Towbin, honorary chair of CIFF gala, raves about local film fest
Carolynn Towbin is a woman of many ventures in life. She’s a meditation teacher, life coach, motorcar dealer and honorary chair of the Coronado Island Film Festival, which runs Nov. 8-12. Towbin over a Zoom interview sits in her chair in her Las Vegas office where she’s run Towbin Automotive for the last 35 years […]
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Tyler Perry’s film to premiere at Coronado Island Film Festival
The centerpiece film of the 2023 Coronado Island Film Festival has been announced: It’s “Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story” from Amazon Studios and Bekele Films.
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Local resident writes, stars in short for Coronado Island Film Festival
Wanting to be beautiful and to stay youthful is not a new phenomenon. It’s stayed prevalent through decades with the elusive Fountain of Youth to Oscar Wilde’s “Dorian Gray” to Disney’s “Tangled,” the modern version of Rapunzel. And now, it’s reached the Coronado Island Film Festival through Rachel Hroncich’s rendering of this idea with her […]
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Coronado Island Film Festival announces slate of programs
The Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF) is kicking off its eighth year with a curated slate of immersive programming including studio and independent films, panels, parties and the premiere gala event: the Leonard Maltin Industry Tribute Awards Gala held at Loews Coronado Bay Resort. The five-day film festival from Nov. 8-12 will include more than […]
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A look at Coronado Island Film Festival’s award-winning filmmakers
The Coronado Island Film Festival sees over 80 films each year, helping launch some of them to bigger platforms to be shown on Amazon Prime, PBS and even nominated for Oscar awards.
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Coronado Island Film Festival to show at ENVZN23 Urban Art Takeover
The Coronado Island Film Festival will be at this year’s ENVZN23 Urban Art Takeover on Sept. 2, a visual and performing arts festival that will transform warehouses, industrial spaces and other urban areas of the Commercial Street corridor in Logan Heights with multi-sensory art interventions by creatives on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. ENVZN23 […]
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Psychological thriller “Vertigo” comes to CIFF’s Classic Film Aug. 30
The Coronado Island Film Festival is rolling right through summer with their next classic film, “Vertigo” by Alfred Hitchcock, screening Aug. 30 at the Village Theatre. As part of their monthly Classic Film series, August will venture into the weird and wondrous world of the great Alfred Hitchcock, who was also known for his films […]