SEASIDE® Celebrates the 15th Anniversary of The Truman Show
Scavenger Hunt Contest Offers Fun for Truman Show fans
Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. (www.seasidefl.com), July 10, 2013—“The Truman Show” was filmed in SEASIDE® 15 years ago, with its first screening in June 1998. To celebrate, SEASIDE® is hosting a contest for all Truman Show fans who want to explore SEASIDE® and the various sites and artifacts left behind from the set.
To play, contestants simply grab their cameras or camera phones and find each of the 15 SEASIDE® sites listed. Each contestant should take a photo of someone in his or her party at each site and email photos to truman.seasidefl@gmail.com.
The list of scavenger hunt sites can be found in the latest edition of The Seaside Times newspaper and also on the SEASIDE® website www.seasidefl.com under the ‘News’ section. A monthly winner will be randomly-drawn from the entries through December 2013. Each month’s winner will receive a copy of The Truman Show DVD and a framed print of SEASIDE®’s Coleman Pavilion. In addition, winners will be published in The Seaside Times newspaper.
The Truman Show is an important piece of SEASIDE® history. Not only did it bring fame to the New Urbanist beach community, but it also contributed significantly to the town’s funds as the production helped to revitalize the local economy. In addition, the site fees received for hosting The Truman Show set helped finance the construction of the SEASIDE® Neighborhood School.
The school began in 1996 as one of the first charter schools in Florida with 36 students, two faculty members and one administrator. In 17 years, the school has grown to 136 students, 15 faculty and staff members and two administrators.
In 2007, the school received the national No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools award, and in 2011 it was recognized again for its excellence in education by earning a high performing charter school status from the Florida Department of Education. Along with this, the school is ranked third among 583 middle schools in the state of Florida and has excelled in its robotics program, which competes in the B.E.S.T. competition.
About Seaside
SEASIDE®, built on 80 acres on Florida’s Gulf Coast, is an unincorporated, master-planned community located in South Walton County on Highway 30-A, between Panama City Beach and Destin. Celebrated as the birth place of New Urbanism and for its focus on traditional family values, SEASIDE® offers a thriving town center with shopping and dining, all within walkable distance to homes, cottages and offices. According to Newsweek, “Seaside—with its cozy, narrow streets, its jumble of pastel colored homes—is probably the most influential resort community since Versailles.” SEASIDE® has been named the “Best Beach on Earth” for families by Travel + Leisure magazine and was included in USA Today’s list of 10 Best Beach Towns in Florida.
Consisting of more than 300 homes, many of them vacation rentals, more than 12 restaurants and eateries, and 41 shops and galleries, the town has become the topic of slide lectures in architectural schools and in housing-industry magazines, and is visited by design professionals from throughout the United States. The town rose to global fame as being the main filming location of the movie “The Truman Show.”
For more information, visit www.seasidefl.com or call 850-231-6179.
Photos available upon request.
