2018 Schedule – Ojai Film Festival

Download a Ojai Film Festival Program PDF or view as a flipbook.

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

Thursday, November 1

7:00 – 9:00 PM Free Opening Night screening of Mel Brooks’ comedy-horror film spoof Young Frankenstein. – Libbey Bowl

[sta_anchor id=”nov2″]Friday, November 2[/sta_anchor]

10 AM –1:00 PM Student Filmmakers Program
Ojai Art Center Theater

10 AM Gloria Talks Funny –18m, The Oak Tree– 23m, Exit Music– 72m
Chaparral Auditorium

1 PM The Butter Knife – 6m, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – 24m, ABU ADNAN – ADNAN’S FATHER – 25m, Dispatches from the Gulf 2 – 57m
Ojai Art Center Theater

1 PM FLUTTER – 10m, Enough – 14m, The World Before Your Feet – 95m
Chaparral Auditorium

4 PM Pour 585 – 5m, Dear Basketball – 5m, End of the Line – 14m, Dirt Rich – 88m
Ojai Art Center Theater

4 PM Baby Steps – 22m, Witness – 23m, From Baghdad to The Bay – 68m
Chaparral Auditorium

7 PM Wicked Girl – 8m, No More Secrets – 14m, April in Autumn – 90m
Ojai Art Center Theater

7 PM Elwood Takes a Lover – 16m, The Lightkeeper– 16m, Deany Bean is Dead – 84m
Chaparral Auditorium

9-11 PM Filmmakers’ Interest Groups – Attending filmmakers have the opportunity to socialize and talk with peers – Ojai Art Center (Raymund Room)

[sta_anchor id=”nov3″]Saturday, November 3[/sta_anchor]

10 AM E-delivery– 4m, My Enemy´s Brother – 18m, STRAY – 18m, $30 To Antarctica
– 18m, Nobody Dies Here – 23m, The Root of Happiness – 30m
Ojai Art Center Theater

10 AM Darrel– 3m, A Woman’s Place – 13m, Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace – 95m
Chaparral Auditorium

11 am – Business and Legal Seminar – A panel of entertainment industry executives will discuss the topic and share insights, led by Laura Caulfield, entertainment legal expert – OAC Gallery

1 pm – Cinematographer Seminar – OAC Gallery

1 PM TRACES – 15m, I GOT THIS – 22m, Satan & Adam – 75m
Ojai Art Center Theater

1 PM What Is Your Brown Number? – 5m, So Much Yellow – 11m, Fiddlin’ – 96m
Chaparral Auditorium

4 pm – The Art of the Pitch – How to “sell” your idea to potential Funders with Emily Best, CEO of Seed & Spark – OAC Gallery

4 PM Cedar Tree of Life – 11m, Tokri (The Basket) – 14m, Funny Story – 87m
Ojai Art Center Theater

4 PM Weeds – 3m, Repercussion – 4m, Fisherwoman and Tuk tuk – 17, Love & Bananas – 88m
Chaparral Auditorium

7 pm – Malcolm McDowell film O Lucky Man!, attending encouraged to join the Welcome Party after the screening – Ojai Art Center Theater

7 PM Little Potato – 14m, AKEDA (The Binding) – 18m, The Turn Out – 80m
Chaparral Auditorium

9–11 PM Festival Welcome Party – Ojai Art Center Gallery

[sta_anchor id=”nov4″]Sunday, November 4[/sta_anchor]

10 AM Brunch, 11 AM Ojai Film Festival Award Presentation – Ojai Art Center Courtyard

1 PM The Thomas Fire Architect – 7m, Lost Property Office – 10m, On My Way Out – 40m, WILDER THAN WILD: Fire, Forests, and the Future – 56m
Ojai Art Center Theater

1 PM Echoes – 12m, Are You Volleyball?! – 15m, Angkor Awakens – 85m
Chaparral Auditorium

1 PM Screenwriter Live Read – A “live” reading of the winning screenplay by a cast of actors. – Ojai Art Center Gallery

4 PM Ghostbear – 6m, Four Eyes – 6m, Octav – 100m
Ojai Art Center Theater

4 PM Balance – 3m, Life Smartphone – 3m, Summer in the Forest – 67m
Chaparral Auditorium

4 pm – Action in Film – An illustrated discussion of how stuntmen “pull off” the amazing stunts we see on the screen with John Branagan – stuntman and stunt coordinator – Ojai Art Center Gallery

7 PM Stuck – 15m, Take Me To The Waves – 20m, August In Berlin – 78m
Ojai Art Center Theater

7 PM Father and Daughter – 5m, Sirens Tango – 12m, The Silence – 96m
Chaparral Auditorium

[sta_anchor id=”nov5″]Monday, November 5[/sta_anchor]

1 PM Gold Coast Block #1: The Circle Game – 5m, The Kind of World Where We Belong – 35m, The Art of Life – 4m, From the Ashes Up – 52m
Ojai Art Center Theater

4 PM Gold Coast Block #2: The Ticket – 8m, Your Favorite Place– 9m, Heart of Paradise – Prison Through Tomorrow’s Eyes – 56m
Ojai Art Center Theater

7 PM Gold Coast Block #3: When Lives Touch – 7m, The Dinner Guest – 14m, Normal Types – 103m
Ojai Art Center Theater

[sta_anchor id=”nov7″]Wednesday, November 7[/sta_anchor]

4 PM Garden Party – 7m, Euphoria- Indescribable adventure – 21m, hillbilly – 85m
Chaparral Auditorium

7 PM Vice – 13m, American Letters – 19m, UP TO SNUFF – 80m
Chaparral Auditorium

7 PM Free Community Screening of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016 Oscar nominated animated Japanese fairytale) at the atrium behind the Ojai Arcade. Seating on grass. Patrons bring chairs and blankets.

[sta_anchor id=”nov8″]Thursday, November 8[/sta_anchor]

1 PM TRACES – 15m, I GOT THIS – 22m, Satan & Adam – 75m
Chaparral Auditorium

4 PM The Thomas Fire Architect – 7m, Lost Property Office – 10m, On My Way Out – 40m, WILDER THAN WILD: Fire, Forests, and the Future – 56m
Chaparral Auditorium

7 PM Echoes – 12m, Are You Volleyball?! – 15m, Angkor Awakens – 85m
Chaparral Auditorium

[sta_anchor id=”nov9″]Friday, November 9[/sta_anchor]

10 AM Young Filmmakers Competition Screening – Ojai Film Society Under the generous auspices of the Ojai Film Festival, the Ojai Film Society presents the winning films of its 2018 Ojai Young Filmmakers competition. The presentation will be followed by a student Q&A and a reception. Ojai Art Center Theater

10 AM Darrel– 3m, A Woman’s Place – 13m, Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace – 95m
Chaparral Auditorium

1 PM Balance – 3m, Life Smartphone – 3m, Summer in the Forest – 67m
Ojai Art Center Theater

1 PM Weeds – 3m, Repercussion – 4m, Fisherwoman and Tuk tuk – 17, Love & Bananas – 88m
Chaparral Auditorium

4 PM – An Afternoon with Eva Marie Saint – Women in Film Legacy Series Film screening, Q&A with Ms. Saint, reception following – OAC Theater & OAC Gallery

4 PM What Is Your Brown Number? – 5m, So Much Yellow – 11m, Fiddlin’ – 96m
Chaparral Auditorium

7 PM Cedar Tree of Life – 11m, Tokri (The Basket) – 14m, Funny Story – 87m
Ojai Art Center Theater

7 PM Ghostbear – 6m, Four Eyes – 6m, Octav – 100m
Chaparral Auditorium

[sta_anchor id=”nov10″]Saturday, November 10[/sta_anchor]

10 AM Baby Steps – 22m, Witness – 23m, From Baghdad to The Bay – 68m
Ojai Art Center Theater

10 AM Pour 585 – 5m, Dear Basketball – 5m, End of the Line – 14m, Dirt Rich – 88m
Chaparral Auditorium

1 PM Garden Party – 7m, Euphoria- Indescribable adventure – 21m, hillbilly – 85m
Ojai Art Center Theater

1 PM Animation Program – A collection of all the animated films in this year’s festival
Chaparral Auditorium

4 PM – Loving Vincent – Screening of the 2018 Oscar nominated animated film. Q&A and a demonstration of the art techniques used to create the film by two of the artists Tiffanie Mang & Charlene Mosley – Ojai Art Center Theater and Gallery

4 PM Gloria Talks Funny –18m, The Oak Tree– 23m, Exit Music– 72m
Chaparral Auditorium

7 PM Elwood Takes a Lover – 16m, The Lightkeeper– 16m, Deany Bean is Dead – 84m
Ojai Art Center Theater

7 PM Stuck – 15m, Take Me To The Waves – 20m, August In Berlin – 78m
Chaparral Auditorium

[sta_anchor id=”nov11″]Sunday, November 11[/sta_anchor]

10 AM FLUTTER – 10m, Enough – 14m, The World Before Your Feet – 95m
Ojai Art Center Theater

10 AM The Butter Knife – 6m, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – 24m, ABU ADNAN – ADNAN’S FATHER – 25m, Dispatches from the Gulf 2 – 57m
Chaparral Auditorium

1 PM – Focus Earth – Screening of Evolution of Organics followed by a panel discussion and a reception/environmental “fair”, in partnership with the Ojai Valley Green Coalition
Ojai Art Center Theater

1 PM Vice – 13m, American Letters – 19m, UP TO SNUFF – 80m
Chaparral Auditorium

4 PM Father and Daughter – 5m, Sirens Tango – 12m, The Silence – 96m
Ojai Art Center Theater

4 PM E-delivery– 4m, My Enemy´s Brother – 18m, STRAY – 18m, $30 To Antarctica
– 18m, Nobody Dies Here – 23m, The Root of Happiness – 30m
Chaparral Auditorium