The five-day Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF) is celebrating a decade of entertainment. Join the fun from Nov. 5-9 for this milestone event. CIFF was founded by longtime Coronado resident Doug St. Denis and has grown tremendously since its inception. In a 2024 interview, Doug discussed how she created an entire festival. “I had a lot of help, and a lot of people thought it was a great idea. We have such a history with film in this town. Everybody knows that was filmed here in 1958, and that’s huge; but what a lot of people didn’t realize until we came along was that 50 years before that, film was a brand new thing. It would develop and change the world. Those filmmakers, those pioneers, came to Coronado, and they stayed at the Hotel Del.”

Meet Your Neighbor: Doug St. Denis, On Archi

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