Oh Crappy Day

2014, USA, Director: Jon Lance Bacon, Producer: Steven P. Neilson; 18 min. On a blind date with a charming young woman, a film student thinks he’s met The One. There’s just one problem. His obsessive compulsive disorder threatens to derail Read more…

Greenland

2014, Israel, Director: Oren Gerner, Producers: Yoav Birenfeld and Litel Maizel; 17 min. Leaving home is never simple. For Oren, moving in with his girlfriend is an opportunity to break away from his family and establish his own identity. However, Read more…

I am Emmanuel

2015, Australia, Director: Genevieve Clay-Smith, Producer: Eleanor Winkler; 20 min. I am Emmanuel follows an African refugee and his family as they cope with a legacy of genocide, civil war, and the disappearance of their husband and father. Torn between Read more…

Bereave

2015, USA, Directors and Producers: Evangelos and George Giovanis; 100 min. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Garvey wants nothing more than to die on his own terms. However, Garvey’s determination to end his life blinds him to his wife’s fading Read more…

You See Me

2015, USA, Director/Producer: Linda J. Brown; 71 min. Filmmaker Linda Brown’s father embodied 1960s masculinity. When a devastating stroke leaves him vulnerable and dependent, Linda confronts the silence surrounding his troubled and violent past. Drawing on home movies, family photos Read more…

Winterseise

2015, Germany, Director: Susan Boeing, Producer: Andrea Karkut; 26 min. A recently widowed professor (Walter) is diagnosed with a terminal illness that will rob him of sight and coherent thought. Unwilling to burden his son, who is moving to Geneva, Read more…

Wildlike

2014, USA, Director: Frank Hall Green, Producers: Julie Christeas, Frank Hall Green, Joseph Stephans, and Schuyler Weiss; 104 min. With a deceased father and addict mother, jaded, street smart Mackenzie is used to chaos. Sent to Alaska to live with Read more…

Welcome

2014, Spain, Director: Javier Fesser, Producer: Luis Manso; 28 min. Anni wishes her school had Internet, just like her cousin’s school in Alegre Vista. Then she could finally get the answer to some burning questions, like how to cure cattle Read more…

The Apple Tree

2015, USA, Director/Producer: Scott Storm; 19 min. Living in poverty and with a nagging hunger, ten-year-old Tommy Willis seeks solace in the wilderness. When he stumbles across a lone, withering apple tree deep in the woods, Tommy is horrified by Read more…

New to the 2016 Ojai Film Festival

In 2016 the Ojai Film Festival is offering four themed segments within the larger Festival: Focus Earth, the Gold Coast Film Series, focus on Young Filmmakers, and the first Ojai Film Festival Screenplay Competition.

A perennial favorite with festival goers, the Focus Earth series presents films that shine a light on environmental issues. This year’s films will be presenting new solutions to the global problem of waste. The Focus Earth program will screen films and offer themed workshops/seminars. (more…)

Ojai Film Festival and Panavision

Panavision is a long time sponsor of our Lifetime Achievement Award. The chosen filmmaker is awarded $60,000 worth of equipment from Panavision for a month. Want to learn more? Here’s an article about last year’s winner: http://www.panavision.com/owen-roizman-asc-honored-ojai-film-festival

Ojai Playhouse

Have you missed the iconic Ojai Playhouse? It’s been integral to our yearly film festival, serving as the principal screening venue. In 2014, a Golden State Water Company main burst on ‪‎Ojai‬ Ave. and flooded the Playhouse. Today it’s a Read more…

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