Hotel Chelsea is a thriller of 2009. The production traveled to New York for filming on the classic Hotel Chelsea

Hotel Chelsea

The Hotel Chelsea, also known as the Chelsea Hotel, or simply the Chelsea, is a historic New York City hotel and landmark, known primarily for its history of notable residents...

, a place regularly visited by celebrities, and gives name to the film.

Plot

A newlyweds Japanese couple traveling to the Hotel Chelsea in New York to enjoy their honeymoon, but one night, the wife found the lifeless body of her husband and a video of the brutal murder. A police detective arrived at the scene and tries to reconstruct the events surrounding the mystery.

Festivals

• Radar Hamburg International Independent Film Festival (Nov 2, 2009)

• Queens International Film Festival

Queens International Film Festival

The Queens International Film Festival ran from 2003-2009. It is currently defunct and the website has been shut down.-References:*...

 (Nov 15, 2009)

- Best Director (nominated)

- Best Actress (nominated)

• Myrtle Beach International Film Festival (Dec 4, 2009)

- Best Foreign Picture

- Best Actress

• Indie Spirit Film Festival (Apr 23, 2010)

• Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (Jun 9, 2010)

• Okanagan International Film Festival (Jul 23, 2010)

• Rhode Island International Film Festival

Rhode Island International Film Festival

Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival takes place every year in Providence and Newport, Rhode Island as well as satellite locations throughout the state. Started in 1997, the Festival is produced by Flickers, the Newport Film/Video Society & Arts Collaborative, a 501 non-profit...

 (Aug 14, 2010)

• Eerie Horror Film Festival (Oct 10, 2010)

• Japan Film Fest Hamburg (May 29, 2011)

Release

Early reviews for Hotel Chelsea at the 2009 Radar Hamburg International Independent Film Festival drew applause at its premiere. Hotel Chelsea official premiered in Tokyo on May 8th, 2009 to critical acclaim and commercial success. In July 2010 was released on DVD.
In March 2011, Hotel Chelsea was available online for free and established a long term earthquake

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...

 and tsunami

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...

relief fund for Japan.