The Oceanside International Film Festival (OIFF) is an annual

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online. Films may be of recent ...

held in

Oceanside, California Oceanside is a beach city in the North County (San Diego area), North County area of San Diego County, California, United States. The city had a population of 174,068 at the 2020 United States census, making it the most populous city in the Nort ...

. It was founded in 2009 by the Oceanside Cultural Foundation.

History

The 11th annual festival was the first in person event since 2019. It ran from February 22-27, 2022. Prior to the

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, 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. Executive director Lou Niles curates the festival along with his wife, director Carly Starr Brullo-Niles. Dmitriv Demidov is the co-chair, Michael E. Vasquez is a committee chair member, and Sterling Anno is the co-programmer.

Notable appearances

Notable attendees include

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, Jon St. John,

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, TJ Storm,

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, Sanoe Lake, John Stockwell, Taylor Steele,

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and

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Notable films and television

Achievement in Film Award

* 2018: Jarod Bainbridge and Allyssa Bainbridge

Artist Spotlight Award

* 2025: '' Surfer on the Jetty'' by Tom Smith

Emerging Filmmaker Award

* 2019: Eleri Edwards for ''The Goat'' * 2020: Yutao Chen for '' Dirty Business'' and Cameron Penn for ''

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'' * 2025: James Valdez for '' Canta Santiago''

Emerging Student Scholarship Award

* 2019: Laura Nguyen for ''Hazel''

Inspiring Student Scholarship Award

* 2019: David Pradel for '' The City's Champions''

Lifetime Achievement Award

* 2012: William T. Stromberg and Everett Peck * 2013:

and Jon St. John * 2014:

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* 2015: John DeBello * 2016:

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and

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* 2017: Alan Roderick-Jones * 2019: Taylor Steele

Oceanside Awareness Award

* 2015: Stacy Goldberg

Oceanside Impact Award

* 2022: John Stockwell,

, Sanoe Lake, Jessica Trent * 2023:

* 2025: Taylor Lane

Oceanside On Screen Award

* 2018:

* 2019:

Oceanside Spotlight Contest

* 2013: '' KMR Video Services Oceanside CA Promo'' by Sam Mattson * 2016: '' Waves N' Craves: Baked Eggs & Spiralized Sweet Potato'' by Missy Powers * 2017: '' Waves N Craves: The Yummus Episode'' by Missy Powers

Best Picture

* 2009: ''Callous'' * 2012: ''Working Class'' by Jeff Durkin ** '' Washed Up'' by Mark Richardson (Audience Choice) * 2013: ''Patrol Base Jaker'' by David Scantling ** '' Broken Knuckles'' by Justin Burquist (Audience Choice) * 2014: '' Into the Silent Sea'' by Andrej Landin ** ''West'' by Jesse Weseloh (Audience Choice) * 2015: ''Keep in Touch'' by Sam Kretchmar ** ''The Age of Reason'' by Andrew Schrader (Audience Choice) * 2016: '' The Whimsical Imagineer'' ** '' We Can't Die'' (Audience Choice) * 2017: ''

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'' by Michael Lewis Foster'''' ** '' Our Barrio'' by Ryan Casselman (Audience Choice) * 2018: ''It's Just a Game'' ** ''Esfuerzo'' (Audience Choice) * 2019: ''Banana Split'' * 2020: '' Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish'' * 2022: ''The Ugly Truth'' * 2023: '' The Manliest Man'' * 2024: ''The Countryman'''''' * 2025: '' The Cigarette Surfboard''

Best Actor in a Lead Role

* 2009: Mark Nilsson for '' Ballbusters'' * 2019: Josh Bywater for '' Part 5B'' * 2020: Numan Cakir for '' Toprak'' * 2022: Juan Pablo Zamora for '' Mar & Cielo'' * 2023: Matthew Kim for '' The Manliest Man'' * 2024: Kyle Minshew for '' Accidental Stars'' * 2025:

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Best Actress in a Lead Role

* 2009: Kari Nissena for '' Callous'' * 2019: Hannah Marks for ''Banana Split'' * 2020:

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'' * 2022: Caroline Hartig for ''The Ugly Truth'' * 2023: Ling Ling for ''Filter'''''' * 2024: Beth Gallagher for '' To Fall in Love'' * 2025: Audrey Corsa for ''

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Best Animation (Short or Feature)

* 2009: '' Perchance to Dream'' by Lauren Kimball * 2012: '' Thumb Snatchers from the Moon Cocoon'' by Bradley Schaffer (also Audience Choice) * 2015: ''Tick Tock'' by Zeynep Kocak ** '' Telling a You'' by M.Y.R.A. Entertainment (Audience Choice) * 2016: '' Sea of Ink'' by Chenxin Yang * 2017: Calley MacDonald for '' A Boy & His Beast'' (also Audience Choice)'''' * 2018: ''One Small Step'' (also Audience Choice) * 2019:

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for '' The Most Magnificent Thing'' * 2020: '' Acaiaca'' * 2022: ''

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'' * 2023: Yellowstone 88 for '' Song of Fire'' * 2024: '' Speedman'' * 2025: '' Mutual Tides''

Best Art Direction (Short or Feature)

* 2019: ''Rocket Boy'' (Design) * 2020: Elsa Mickelson for ''Leave 'Em Laughing'' (Design) * 2022: Katelyn Moger for '' Never Felt Better'' * 2023: ''Filter'' * 2024: ''The Countryman'' * 2025: ''Keep''

Best Cinematography in a Feature

* 2019: Benjamin Kasulke for ''Banana Split'' * 2020: Steven Fadellin for '' Love is Not Love'' * 2022: Karma Gava and Simon Davis for '' Gianni Berengo Gardin's Tale of Two Cities'' * 2023: Chris Alstrin for ''

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'' * 2024:

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for '' The Buildout'' * 2025: Ben Judkins for '' The Cigarette Surfboard''

Best Cinematography in a Short

* 2019: Andrew Daughters for '' Shaped'' * 2020: Jeff Taylor for ''

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'' * 2022: Johnny Agnew for '' Young and the Reckless'' * 2023: Robert L. Hunter for '' Reclaim Your Water: Natasha Smith'' * 2024: Jannis Schelenz for ''The Countryman'''''' * 2025: Nate Allen Laverty for '' Creatures of Habit''

Best Direction in a Feature

* 2009: Joey Lanai for ''Callous'' * 2019: Benjamin Kasulke for ''Banana Split'' * 2020: Stephen Keep Mills for '' Love is Not Love'' * 2022: Jeremy Pion-Berlin for '' Failure to Protect'' * 2023: Danijela Steinfeld for '' Hold Me Right'' * 2024: Zeshaan Younus for '' The Buildout'' * 2025: Ben Judkins for '' The Cigarette Surfboard''

Best Direction in a Short

* 2019: Erin Martinez for '' Alone Together'' * 2020: Rami Kodeih for ''

'' * 2022: Melissa Kirkendall for '' You are Me & I am You'' * 2023: Vivian Ip for '' An Island Drifts'' * 2024: Emily Bennett for '' Accidental Stars'' * 2025:

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for ''

Best Editing in a Feature

* 2019: Chris Gentile for '' Self-Discovery for Social Survival'' * 2020: Vladislav Grishin for '' Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish'' * 2022: Jay Keuper and Sean Duggan for '' Keep It a Secret'' * 2023: Peter Hamblin for '' Sweet Adventure'' * 2024: Matt Latham for '' The Buildout'' * 2025: Ben Judkins for '' The Cigarette Surfboard''

Best Editing in a Short

* 2019: Erin Martinez for '' Alone Together'' * 2020: Rami Kodeih for ''

'' * 2022: Alvin Reyes for '' Bundini'' * 2023: David Abades Barclay for '' Salt Lines'' * 2024: Allison Waid for '' Please Ask for It'' * 2025: Carl Bengtsson for '' An Exam's Journey''

Best Feature Documentary

* 2012: ''Working Class'' by Jeff Durkin (also Audience Choice) * 2013: ''Patrol Base Jaker'' by David Scantling ** '' Finnigan's War'' by Conor Timmis (Audience Choice) * 2014: '' Art As a Weapon'' by Jeff Durkin ** '' Out In the Line-Up'' by Ian W. Thomson (Audience Choice) * 2015: '' Omo Child: The River and the Bush'' by John Rowe ** ''Breaking Point'' by Bill Wisneski (Audience Choice) * 2016: '' The Weekend Sailor'' by Bernardo Arsuaga ** '' It Ain't Pretty'' by Dayla Soul (Audience Choice) * 2017: '' No Roads In'' by Josh Wong (also Audience Choice)'''' * 2018: Chris Metzler,

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and Quinn Costello for '' Rodents of Unusual Size'' ** Bill Wisneski for '' Shadow of Drought: California’s Looming Water Crisis'' (Audience Choice) * 2019: Bill Wisneski for '' Shattered Dreams: Sex Trafficking in America'' * 2020: '' Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish'' * 2022: '' Failure to Protect'' * 2023: ''Jack Has'' ''a Plan'' * 2025: '' Call Me Mule''

Best Local Student Film

* 2018: '' Alana Nichols' Story'' by Eli Bensen (also Audience Choice)

Best Narrative Feature

* 2012: ''Boy'' ''with Blue'' by David Liddell Thorpe (also Audience Choice) * 2013: '' The Racket Boys'' by Brandon Willer (also Audience Choice) * 2015: '' Wildlike'' by Frank Hall Green ** ''Keep in Touch'' by Sam Kretchmar (Audience Choice) * 2016: ''Remittance'' by Patrick Daly and Joel Fendelman ** '' ADDicted'' by Dan Jenski (Audience Choice) * 2017: ''

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'' by

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* 2019: ''Banana Split'' by Benjamin Kasulke * 2020: '' Toprak'' by Sevgi Hirschhäuser * 2022: ''The Ugly Truth'' by Krishna Ashu Bhati * 2024: '' The Buildout'' by Zeshaan Younus

Best Narrative Short

* 2012: '' Curvas'' by David Galan Galindo ** ''The Lucky One'' by Bala Balakrishnan (Audience Choice) * 2013: '' Turns'' by Jake Barsha ** ''Instant Justice'' by Steven Turk and Angie Baggett (Audience Choice) * 2014: '' Bis Gleich'' by Benjamin Wolff ** ''West'' by Jesse Weseloh (Audience Choice) * 2015: '' Keeper of the Past'' by Marco J. Riedl ** ''The Knockout Game'' by Benjamin Goalabré (Audience Choice) * 2016: ''3000'' by Tia Tsonis ** '' Poor George'' by Jim Harris (Audience Choice) * 2017: '' Songs of Wild Animals'' by Mara Weber ** ''Iron'' by L. Gabriel Gonda (Audience Choice)'''' * 2018: Ward Crockett for '' There Is No Door'' ** Juan Escobedo for ''Marisol'' (Audience Choice) * 2019: Erin Martinez for '' Alone Together'' * 2020: ''

'' * 2022: '' Mar & Cielo'' * 2023: '' Black Creek Trail'' * 2024: ''Patrimony'' * 2025: ''

Best Original Score (Short or Feature)

* 2019: Rick Charnoski and Coan Nichols for '' The Tony Alva Story'' * 2020: Marco D'Ambrosio for ''

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'' ''the Rainbow'''''' * 2022: Seana Thompson for '' Rogue: The Western'' * 2023: '' I Am Alright'' * 2024: Brittany Dunton and Jake Monaco for '' Manō'' * 2025: Linus Kallberg for '' An Exam's Journey''

Best Producer

* 2009: CHSTV for ''We Must Remember''

Best Screenplay (Short or Feature)

* 2019: Benjamin Kasulke for ''Banana Split'' * 2020: Nora Marianna for ''

'' * 2022: Krisha Ashu Bhati and Eva Habermann for ''

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'' * 2023: Jim Kempton for '' Big Wave Guardians''

Best Screenplay (Feature)

* 2024: Jennifer Lane for '' To Fall in Love''

Best Screenplay (Short)

* 2024: Noah Freeman Hecht for '' Forget Me Again'' * 2025: Lewis Rose for ''Keep''''''

Best Short Documentary

* 2009: '' Save the World'' by Michael T. Wood * 2012: '' Angel's Reach'' by Al Germani ** '' The American Dream of Owning a Mobile Home'' by Promise Yee (Audience Choice) * 2013: '' Threatened: The Controversial Struggle of the Southern Sea Otter'' by Bill Wisneski ** ''Impact'' by Michael Franzese (Audience Choice) * 2014: '' Baykeepers'' by Michael J. Lutman ** '' LA Miner'' by Thomas Wood (Audience Choice) * 2015: '' Over the Coals: Santa Maria the BBQ Capitol of the World'' by Noah Rosenstein ** '' King Corduroy'' by Paul Von Petrzelka (Audience Choice) * 2016: '' Dead Harvest'' by Ray McNally ** '' Aloha for Indo'' by Elliot Lucas (Audience Choice) * 2017: '' Washed Away'' by

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(also Audience Choice)'''' * 2018: David Fokos and Barbarella Fokos for '' From Haarlem to Harlem'' ** Alena Ehrenbold for '' Tan'' (Audience Choice) * 2019: Andrew Daughters for '' Shaped'' * 2020: ''

'' * 2022: '' You are Me & I am You'' * 2023: '' One Lost Many Found'' * 2024: '' Fifth Tide'' * 2025: '' A Letter from Antarctica''

Best Soundtrack (Short or Feature)

* 2025: ''Amazigh''''''

Best Student Film (Short or Feature)

* 2009: '' Kevin's Kritters: Dolphin Experience'' by Kevin Anderson * 2012: ** ''Water on Mars'' by Chase Smith *** ''Expiration Date'' by Ryan Lagerstrom (Audience Choice) * 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) ** ''

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Best Supporting Actor

* 2019: Luke Spencer Roberts for ''Banana Split'' * 2020:

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'' * 2022: Anthony Candell for ''

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'' * 2023: James Shanklin for ''

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'' * 2024: Jack Forcinito for ''The Countryman'''''' * 2025:

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for '' The Last Take''

Best Supporting Actress

* 2019: Addison Riecke for ''Banana Split'' * 2020: Whitney Bensfield for ''Midnight'' * 2022: Suzana Norberg for '' We All Die Alone'' * 2023: Hili Golan for ''You & I'' * 2024: Windy Marshall for '' And Yet They Speak'' * 2025: Kate Hackett for '' Ambush at St. Mary's''

References

External links

Official website
* {{Oceanside International Film Festival Annual events in California Cinema of Southern California Culture of San Diego Film festivals in San Diego Film festivals established in 2009 Oceanside, California Recurring events established in 2009 Oceanside International Film Festival