DOCUMENTARY SHORT

DESERTOPIA

As pure and as honest a look at the Salton Sea and the people who call it home as you ever are going to see – Howser Huell

It’s in the middle of nowhere, a dramatic landscape not unlike a vision of post-apocalypse. Once known as “The American Riviera”, it’s the biggest thing on the map in California. Here, in the ghost of one of California’s premier resort destinations, a motley group of eccentrics, hell-raisers, and visionaries have found home, and a little piece of heaven.

DIRECTOR: Meri Pritchett

PRODUCER: Kjell Hilding

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Marzena Grzegorczyk 

EDITING: Manuj Majumdar, Loren Mendell

FILMING LOCATIONS: Salton Sea, California

RUNNING TIME: 26′

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA