2019 Schedule

Download a Ojai Film Festival Program PDF or view as a flipbook or get a quick glance at the overall schedule.

October 31 – November 10

9 AM – 8 PM Filmmakers Lounge in the Ojai Art Center (OAC) Fireside Room every day OAC events are scheduled.

Thursday, October 31

4 – 6 PM Halloween Carnivale with music and activities for children and adults – Libbey Park Fountain Plaza

6:30 – 9 PM Opening Night Community FREE Film, The Nightmare Before ChristmasLibbey Bowl

Friday, November 1

10 AM – 1 PM High School Students’ Filmmakers Program at Ojai Art Center

3:30 PM  Ojai Film Society – Young Filmmakers Competition Winning Films at Ojai Art Center Gallery

1–10 PM Film Screenings at Ojai Art Center

10 AM–10 PM Film Screenings at Sane Living Center

9 PM Filmmakers’ Mixer

Saturday, November 2

10 AM–10 PM Film Screenings at Ojai Art Center and Sane Living Center

10 AM Business & Legal – Motion Picture Financing Seminar at Ojai Art Center Gallery

11:45 AM Business & Legal – Licensing Music and Hiring Composers to Create Scores for Film and Television at Ojai Art Center Gallery

1 PM By Filmmakers for Filmmakers – a Groupthink at Ojai Art Center Gallery

4 PM Distributing Your Film Seminar at Ojai Art Center Gallery

7 PM State Fair screening with reception to follow in the Ojai Art Center Gallery 

9 – 11 PM Festival Party

Sunday, November 3

10 AM-12:30 PM Awards Brunch (11 AM – Presentations)

1 PM–10 PM Film Screenings at Ojai Art Center and Sane Living Center

1 PM Winning Screenplay Live Table Read at Ojai Art Center Gallery

4 PM The Way We Were Film screening and Q&A at Ojai Art Center

7 PM North by Northwest screening with reception to follow in the Ojai Art Center Gallery

Monday, November 4

10 AM-10 PM Gold Coast Screenings in the OAC Theater. A panoply of films created in and around Ventura County.

Tuesday, November 5

1 PM –10 PM Film Screenings at Sane Living Center

Wednesday, November 6

1 PM –10 PM Film Screenings at Sane Living Center

6:30  PM Free Community Screening: The Red Turtle at Libbey Park Gazebo

Thursday, November 7

1 PM –10 PM Film Screenings at Sane Living Center

Friday, November 8

10 AM–10 PM Film Screenings at Ojai Art Center and Sane Living Center

Saturday, November 9

10 AM–10 PM Film Screenings at Ojai Art Center and Sane Living Center

1 PM Stuntmen: Action in Film seminar in the Ojai Art Center Gallery

4 PM WOMEN IN FILM LEGACY SERIES – the screening of two short biographical films of two actresses: Penny Marshall and Eva Marie Saint

Sunday, November 10

10 AM–10 PM Film Screenings at Ojai Art Center and Sane Living Center

1–2 PM Environmental Films as Educational Tools Session 1: ECO SHORTS at Ojai Art Center Gallery

2:15–4 PM Environmental Films as Educational Tools Session 2: Love Thy Nature at Ojai Art Center Gallery

4 PM Focus Earth: Living in the Future’s Past at Ojai Art Center


Festival venues: (all within three blocks of each other)

Ojai Art Center – downtown Ojai
Sane Living Center – downtown Ojai
Libbey Park Bowl – downtown Ojai
Libbey Park Fountain Plaza – downtown Ojai
Libbey Park Gazebo – downtown Ojai