Oceanside International Film Festival
OIFF Venue Sunshine Brooks Theater | |
| Location | Oceanside, California, U.S. |
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| Founded | 2009 |
| Founded by | Oceanside Cultural Foundation |
| Most recent | 2025 |
| Directors |
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| Artistic director | Carly Starr Brullo-Niles |
| Festival date | Annually in August until 2020, annually in February since 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Website | osidefilm |
The Oceanside International Film Festival (OIFF) is an annual film festival held in Oceanside, California. It was founded in 2009 by the Oceanside Cultural Foundation.[1]
History
The 11th annual festival was the first in person event since 2019. It ran from February 22-27, 2022.[2] Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival was held annually in August each year. It was virtual in August 2020, followed up by a virtual "best of" festival in February 2021. This transition was to permanently move the annual festival to February.[3]
Executive director Lou Niles curates the festival along with his wife, director Carly Starr Brullo-Niles.[4] Dmitriv Demidov is the co-chair, Michael E. Vasquez is a committee chair member,[5] and Sterling Anno is the co-programmer.[6]
Notable appearances
Notable attendees include Sally Kirkland, Jon St. John,[7] Amir George,[8] Lee Meriwether,[9] TJ Storm,[10] Shawn Hatosy, Carolina Guerra, Ben Robson,[11] Kate Bosworth, Sanoe Lake, John Stockwell,[12] Taylor Steele, Tony Alva, Joanna Cassidy,[13] Taryn Manning and The Silent Comedy.[14]
Notable films and television
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Attack of the Killer Tomatoes | Costa Dillon | [10] |
| 2017 | The Black Ghiandola | Sam Raimi, Catherine Hardwicke, Theodore Melfi | Short film[15] |
| 2018 | Jackpot | Shawn Hatosy | TV episode 11 premiere of Animal Kingdom season 3[16] |
| Daisy Belle | William Wall | Short film[17] | |
| 2020 | Friend of the World | Brian Patrick Butler | Premiere[18] |
| The Power Agent | Mark Atkinson | Best Actress nomination for Charlie Krapf, short film[19] | |
| 2022 | Blue Crush | John Stockwell | Opening film[12] |
| Pulp Friction | Mark Atkinson, Tony Olmos | Best Supporting Actor nomination for Elliott Branch Jr., short film[20] | |
| 2023 | Touch | Justin Burquist | Best Art Direction nomination, short film[21] |
| 2024 | Thinner | Tom Holland | Special screening[22] |
| Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea | Tony Olmos | Closing film, multiple nominations[23] |
Achievement in Film Award
- 2018: Jarod Bainbridge and Allyssa Bainbridge[24]
Artist Spotlight Award
- 2025: Surfer on the Jetty by Tom Smith[25]
Emerging Filmmaker Award
- 2019: Eleri Edwards for The Goat[26]
- 2020: Yutao Chen for Dirty Business and Cameron Penn for The Roommates[19]
- 2025: James Valdez for Canta Santiago [25]
Emerging Student Scholarship Award
- 2019: Laura Nguyen for Hazel[26]
Inspiring Student Scholarship Award
- 2019: David Pradel for The City's Champions[26]
Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2012: William T. Stromberg and Everett Peck[27]
- 2013: Sally Kirkland and Jon St. John[8]
- 2014: Saginaw Grant[28]
- 2015: John DeBello[29]
- 2016: Kathleen Quinlan and Rolly Crump[9]
- 2017: Alan Roderick-Jones[30]
- 2019: Taylor Steele[13]
Oceanside Awareness Award
- 2015: Stacy Goldberg[31]
Oceanside Impact Award
- 2022: John Stockwell, Kate Bosworth, Sanoe Lake, Jessica Trent[32]
- 2023: Taryn Manning[33]
- 2025: Taylor Lane[25]
Oceanside On Screen Award
- 2018: Shawn Hatosy[24]
- 2019: Tony Alva[26]
Oceanside Spotlight Contest
- 2013: KMR Video Services Oceanside CA Promo by Sam Mattson[8]
- 2016: Waves N' Craves: Baked Eggs & Spiralized Sweet Potato by Missy Powers[34]
- 2017: Waves N Craves: The Yummus Episode by Missy Powers[35]
Best Picture
- 2009: Callous[36]
- 2012: Working Class by Jeff Durkin
- Washed Up by Mark Richardson (Audience Choice)[27]
- 2013: Patrol Base Jaker by David Scantling
- Broken Knuckles by Justin Burquist (Audience Choice)[8]
- 2014: Into the Silent Sea by Andrej Landin
- West by Jesse Weseloh (Audience Choice)[37]
- 2015: Keep in Touch by Sam Kretchmar
- The Age of Reason by Andrew Schrader (Audience Choice)[31]
- 2016: The Whimsical Imagineer
- We Can't Die (Audience Choice)[34]
- 2017: Hush by Michael Lewis Foster[38][35]
- Our Barrio by Ryan Casselman (Audience Choice)[38][35]
- 2018: It's Just a Game
- Esfuerzo (Audience Choice)[24]
- 2019: Banana Split[26]
- 2020: Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish[19]
- 2022: The Ugly Truth[20]
- 2023: The Manliest Man[33]
- 2024: The Countryman[39]
- 2025: The Cigarette Surfboard[25]
Best Actor in a Lead Role
- 2009: Mark Nilsson for Ballbusters[36]
- 2019: Josh Bywater for Part 5B[26]
- 2020: Numan Cakir for Toprak[19]
- 2022: Juan Pablo Zamora for Mar & Cielo[20]
- 2023: Matthew Kim for The Manliest Man[33]
- 2024: Kyle Minshew for Accidental Stars[39]
- 2025: Tom Holland for Last Call[25]
Best Actress in a Lead Role
- 2009: Kari Nissena for Callous[36]
- 2019: Hannah Marks for Banana Split[26]
- 2020: Alia Shawkat for Alina[19]
- 2022: Caroline Hartig for The Ugly Truth[20]
- 2023: Ling Ling for Filter[33]
- 2024: Beth Gallagher for To Fall in Love[39]
- 2025: Audrey Corsa for Solid[25]
Best Animation (Short or Feature)
- 2009: Perchance to Dream by Lauren Kimball[36]
- 2012: Thumb Snatchers from the Moon Cocoon by Bradley Schaffer (also Audience Choice)[27]
- 2015: Tick Tock by Zeynep Kocak
- Telling a You by M.Y.R.A. Entertainment (Audience Choice)[31]
- 2016: Sea of Ink by Chenxin Yang[34]
- 2017: Calley MacDonald for A Boy & His Beast (also Audience Choice)[35]
- 2018: One Small Step (also Audience Choice)[24]
- 2019: Arna Selznick for The Most Magnificent Thing[26]
- 2020: Acaiaca[19]
- 2022: Crusoe[20]
- 2023: Yellowstone 88 for Song of Fire[33]
- 2024: Speedman[39]
- 2025: Mutual Tides[25]
Best Art Direction (Short or Feature)
- 2019: Rocket Boy (Design)[26]
- 2020: Elsa Mickelson for Leave 'Em Laughing (Design)[19]
- 2022: Katelyn Moger for Never Felt Better[20]
- 2023: Filter[33]
- 2024: The Countryman[39]
- 2025: Keep[25]
Best Cinematography in a Feature
- 2019: Benjamin Kasulke for Banana Split[26]
- 2020: Steven Fadellin for Love is Not Love[19]
- 2022: Karma Gava and Simon Davis for Gianni Berengo Gardin's Tale of Two Cities[20]
- 2023: Chris Alstrin for The Mirage[33]
- 2024: Justin Moore for The Buildout[39]
- 2025: Ben Judkins for The Cigarette Surfboard[25]
Best Cinematography in a Short
- 2019: Andrew Daughters for Shaped[26]
- 2020: Jeff Taylor for Unnur[19]
- 2022: Johnny Agnew for Young and the Reckless[20]
- 2023: Robert L. Hunter for Reclaim Your Water: Natasha Smith[33]
- 2024: Jannis Schelenz for The Countryman[39]
- 2025: Nate Allen Laverty for Creatures of Habit[25]
Best Direction in a Feature
- 2009: Joey Lanai for Callous[36]
- 2019: Benjamin Kasulke for Banana Split[26]
- 2020: Stephen Keep Mills for Love is Not Love[19]
- 2022: Jeremy Pion-Berlin for Failure to Protect[20]
- 2023: Danijela Steinfeld for Hold Me Right[33]
- 2024: Zeshaan Younus for The Buildout[39]
- 2025: Ben Judkins for The Cigarette Surfboard[25]
Best Direction in a Short
- 2019: Erin Martinez for Alone Together[26]
- 2020: Rami Kodeih for Alina[19]
- 2022: Melissa Kirkendall for You are Me & I am You[20]
- 2023: Vivian Ip for An Island Drifts[33]
- 2024: Emily Bennett for Accidental Stars[39]
- 2025: Harry Holland for Last Call[25]
Best Editing in a Feature
- 2019: Chris Gentile for Self-Discovery for Social Survival[26]
- 2020: Vladislav Grishin for Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish[19]
- 2022: Jay Keuper and Sean Duggan for Keep It a Secret[20]
- 2023: Peter Hamblin for Sweet Adventure[33]
- 2024: Matt Latham for The Buildout[39]
- 2025: Ben Judkins for The Cigarette Surfboard[25]
Best Editing in a Short
- 2019: Erin Martinez for Alone Together[26]
- 2020: Rami Kodeih for Alina[19]
- 2022: Alvin Reyes for Bundini[20]
- 2023: David Abades Barclay for Salt Lines[33]
- 2024: Allison Waid for Please Ask for It[39]
- 2025: Carl Bengtsson for An Exam's Journey[25]
Best Feature Documentary
- 2012: Working Class by Jeff Durkin (also Audience Choice)[27]
- 2013: Patrol Base Jaker by David Scantling
- Finnigan's War by Conor Timmis (Audience Choice)[8]
- 2014: Art As a Weapon by Jeff Durkin
- Out In the Line-Up by Ian W. Thomson (Audience Choice)[37]
- 2015: Omo Child: The River and the Bush by John Rowe
- Breaking Point by Bill Wisneski (Audience Choice)[31]
- 2016: The Weekend Sailor by Bernardo Arsuaga
- It Ain't Pretty by Dayla Soul (Audience Choice)[34]
- 2017: No Roads In by Josh Wong (also Audience Choice)[35]
- 2018: Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer and Quinn Costello for Rodents of Unusual Size
- Bill Wisneski for Shadow of Drought: California’s Looming Water Crisis (Audience Choice)[24]
- 2019: Bill Wisneski for Shattered Dreams: Sex Trafficking in America[26]
- 2020: Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish[19]
- 2022: Failure to Protect[20]
- 2023: Jack Has a Plan[33]
- 2025: Call Me Mule[25]
Best Local Student Film
- 2018: Alana Nichols' Story by Eli Bensen (also Audience Choice)[24]
Best Narrative Feature
- 2012: Boy with Blue by David Liddell Thorpe (also Audience Choice)[27]
- 2013: The Racket Boys by Brandon Willer (also Audience Choice)[8]
- 2015: Wildlike by Frank Hall Green
- Keep in Touch by Sam Kretchmar (Audience Choice)[31]
- 2016: Remittance by Patrick Daly and Joel Fendelman
- ADDicted by Dan Jenski (Audience Choice)[34]
- 2017: American Satan by Ash Avildsen[38][35]
- 2019: Banana Split by Benjamin Kasulke[26]
- 2020: Toprak by Sevgi Hirschhäuser[19]
- 2022: The Ugly Truth by Krishna Ashu Bhati[20]
- 2024: The Buildout by Zeshaan Younus[39]
Best Narrative Short
- 2012: Curvas by David Galan Galindo
- The Lucky One by Bala Balakrishnan (Audience Choice)[27]
- 2013: Turns by Jake Barsha
- Instant Justice by Steven Turk and Angie Baggett (Audience Choice)[8]
- 2014: Bis Gleich by Benjamin Wolff
- West by Jesse Weseloh (Audience Choice)[37]
- 2015: Keeper of the Past by Marco J. Riedl
- The Knockout Game by Benjamin Goalabré (Audience Choice)[31]
- 2016: 3000 by Tia Tsonis
- Poor George by Jim Harris (Audience Choice)[34]
- 2017: Songs of Wild Animals by Mara Weber
- Iron by L. Gabriel Gonda (Audience Choice)[35]
- 2018: Ward Crockett for There Is No Door
- Juan Escobedo for Marisol (Audience Choice)[24]
- 2019: Erin Martinez for Alone Together[26]
- 2020: Alina[19]
- 2022: Mar & Cielo[20]
- 2023: Black Creek Trail[33]
- 2024: Patrimony[39]
- 2025: Last Call[25]
Best Original Score (Short or Feature)
- 2019: Rick Charnoski and Coan Nichols for The Tony Alva Story[26]
- 2020: Marco D'Ambrosio for Eat the Rainbow[19]
- 2022: Seana Thompson for Rogue: The Western[20]
- 2023: I Am Alright[33]
- 2024: Brittany Dunton and Jake Monaco for Manō[39]
- 2025: Linus Kallberg for An Exam's Journey[25]
Best Producer
- 2009: CHSTV for We Must Remember[36]
Best Screenplay (Short or Feature)
- 2019: Benjamin Kasulke for Banana Split[26]
- 2020: Nora Marianna for Alina[19]
- 2022: Krisha Ashu Bhati and Eva Habermann for The Ugly Truth[20]
- 2023: Jim Kempton for Big Wave Guardians[33]
Best Screenplay (Feature)
- 2024: Jennifer Lane for To Fall in Love[39]
Best Screenplay (Short)
Best Short Documentary
- 2009: Save the World by Michael T. Wood[36]
- 2012: Angel's Reach by Al Germani
- The American Dream of Owning a Mobile Home by Promise Yee (Audience Choice)[27]
- 2013: Threatened: The Controversial Struggle of the Southern Sea Otter by Bill Wisneski
- Impact by Michael Franzese (Audience Choice)[8]
- 2014: Baykeepers by Michael J. Lutman
- LA Miner by Thomas Wood (Audience Choice)[37]
- 2015: Over the Coals: Santa Maria the BBQ Capitol of the World by Noah Rosenstein
- King Corduroy by Paul Von Petrzelka (Audience Choice)[31]
- 2016: Dead Harvest by Ray McNally
- Aloha for Indo by Elliot Lucas (Audience Choice)[34]
- 2017: Washed Away by Dana Nachman (also Audience Choice)[35]
- 2018: David Fokos and Barbarella Fokos for From Haarlem to Harlem
- Alena Ehrenbold for Tan (Audience Choice)[24]
- 2019: Andrew Daughters for Shaped[26]
- 2020: Unnur[19]
- 2022: You are Me & I am You[20]
- 2023: One Lost Many Found[33]
- 2024: Fifth Tide[39]
- 2025: A Letter from Antarctica[25]
Best Soundtrack (Short or Feature)
- 2025: Amazigh[25]
Best Student Film (Short or Feature)
- 2009: Kevin's Kritters: Dolphin Experience by Kevin Anderson[36]
- 2012:
- Water on Mars by Chase Smith
- Expiration Date by Ryan Lagerstrom (Audience Choice)[27]
- Water on Mars by Chase Smith
- 2013:
- 420 Remix by Boys & Girls Club of Oceanside at MLK Jr Middle School by David Garcia (K to Middle School)
- Rainbow Show by Pavel Demidov (Audience Choice)
- Shoot the Moon by Alexander Gaeta (High School to College)
- Light Me Up by Ryan Walton and Derek Dolechek (Audience Choice)[8]
- 420 Remix by Boys & Girls Club of Oceanside at MLK Jr Middle School by David Garcia (K to Middle School)
- 2014:
- Mr. McBob by Pierre Schantz (K to Middle School)
- Enigma: Blackouts by Jarrod Bainbridge (Audience Choice)
- Water by Kendall Goldberg (High School, also Audience Choice)
- Into the Silent Sea by Andrej Landin (College)
- Flux: Redefining Women's Surfing by Chad King and Mia Montanile (Audience Choice)[37]
- Mr. McBob by Pierre Schantz (K to Middle School)
- 2015:
- Save the Date by Jarrod Bainbridge (K to Middle School)
- The Sad Snowman by Pierre Schantz (Audience Choice)
- Two and a Quarter Minutes by Joshua Ovalle (High School)
- A Stacked Deck by Cameron Penn (Audience Choice)
- Somos Amigos by Carlos Solano Perez (College)
- Inner Peace by Ryan LaPine (Audience Choice)[31]
- Save the Date by Jarrod Bainbridge (K to Middle School)
- 2016:
- Cricket by Alyssa Bainbridge (K to Middle School)
- Jewish Blind Date by Anaëlle Morf (College)
- Seventy-Two by Cameron Penn (Audience Choice)[34]
- 2017:
- Temple of the Ghost Owl by Justin Myhre (High School)
- Pearl by Assia Qianhang Shao (College)
- That Your Body is for Receiving Happiness and Good Stuff by Anna Blum (Audience Choice)[35]
- 2018:
- Stuart Heinlen for White Lines
- Erin Martinez for Surface (Audience Choice)[24]
- Stuart Heinlen for White Lines
- 2019: Erin Martinez for Alone Together[26]
- 2020: Dirty Business[19]
- 2022: Vlada Goes to London[20]
- 2023: An Island Drifts[33]
- 2024: El Halcón[39]
- 2025: Canta Santiago[25]
Best Supporting Actor
- 2019: Luke Spencer Roberts for Banana Split[26]
- 2020: Martin Kove for The Roommates[19]
- 2022: Anthony Candell for Human Resources[20]
- 2023: James Shanklin for Publish or Perish[33]
- 2024: Jack Forcinito for The Countryman[39]
- 2025: Robert John Burke for The Last Take[25]
Best Supporting Actress
- 2019: Addison Riecke for Banana Split[26]
- 2020: Whitney Bensfield for Midnight[19]
- 2022: Suzana Norberg for We All Die Alone[20]
- 2023: Hili Golan for You & I[33]
- 2024: Windy Marshall for And Yet They Speak[39]
- 2025: Kate Hackett for Ambush at St. Mary's[25]
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