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THE DONN OF TIKI

The Incredulous Story of Don the Beachcomber

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Screenings

Upcoming film festival screenings

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Saturday December 7 at 1:15 PM

Regal Union Square

Dances with Films New York 

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CALGARY, AB, CANADA

Wednesday November 20 at 6:30 PM

Globe Cinema, Calgary

Calgary Underground Film Festival

NEWPORT BEACH, CA

Thursday October 24 at 5:30 PM

The Triangle 3

Newport Beach Film Fest

NEWPORT BEACH, CA

Wednesday October 23 at 3:30 PM

The Lot 3

Newport Beach Film Fest

NEWPORT BEACH, CA

Monday October 21 at 5:30 PM

The New Port Theatre

Newport Beach Film Fest

TWIN CITIES, MN

Saturday, October 19 at 6:30 PM

Marcus West End Cinema

Twins Cities Film Festival

CHAGRIN FALLS, OH

Friday October 4 at 7:30 PM

Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

Chagrin Documentary Festival

HOLLYWOOD, CA

Saturday June 29 at 8:00 PM

Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Dances with Films

HOLLYWOOD, CA

Friday June 28 at 7:00 PM

Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Dances with Films

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Thursday May 30 at 6:00 PM

San Francisco DocFest

Maitland, FL

Thursday April 18 at Regal 20 - Florida

Film Festival

(Sales go live 8pm (EST) 3/20)

​Maitland, FL

Saturday April 13 at The Enzian Theater

Florida Film Festival

(Sales go live 8pm (EST) 3/20)

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Synopsis

The Donn of Tiki is a documentary film about Donn Beach, also known as Don the Beachcomber, creator of the Tiki bar. But his story goes much deeper than that. He was an American maverick, constantly creating his own opportunities, reinventing himself many times over, and was well known for embellishing the details of his extraordinary life.

This film takes on the task of separating fact from exaggeration to finally tell his story. There are slivers of truth to his tales- a youth spent in Jamaica, running rum during prohibition, hunting down cigars and liquor for troops in World War II, and bringing the first commercial lū’au to Hawai’i. 

Interviews from historians, scholars of Indigenous Politics, as well as the Tiki community, paint a complicated portrait of an optimistic man from Texas, who became a champion for authenticity, both in his work, and within himself. 


 

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