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THE QUINTESSENTIAL CALIFORNIA STORY

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Stallion of a Dream won Best Call to Action and Best Advocacy, was the Vision and Legacy Award recipient for helping keep alive a rare breed as well as a Merit Award for best use of rare and archival footage at the Equus International Film Festival in Montana, 2021.

This upcoming film covers the history, mythology, and the current legacy of the distinctive Camarillo White Horses and the Camarillo family through dramatic footage, interviews, archival movies, and recreations, reaching into the broader stories and themes of California, all shot in a cinematic and compelling documentary capturing the very essence of what it is to be Californian.

ABOUT THE FILM

“Stallion of a Dream” is the story of the Camarillo Family and their unique and historic influence on what was once a raw and rugged swathe of land in Southern California.  In this documentary film, the story of Adolfo Camarillo, his vision and innovation, is to be told as a quintessential story of California, from our roots in Spain and Mexico to our ranching traditions and the mythology of our collective “California dream”.   Camarillo’s pride, and arguably, most distinct living legacy, was the Camarillo White Horse. Steeped in mythology, and having undergone its own near-extinction, the tumultuous story of the Camarillo White Horse and the inevitable questions of its future reflect colorful themes of identity, custom, pride, and cultural heritage.  

The White Horse has ties to internationally known California institutions like the Rose Parade and Old Spanish Days Fiesta.  They opened the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, as well as the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.  The horses were famously ridden by celebrities and presidents and appeared in Cecil B. Demille’s The Crusades, one of Hollywood’s finest epics.