Oceanside International Film Festival Announces Opening Night Special Event

OCEANSIDE, CA — The Oceanside International Film Festival has a very special Opening Night lined up on Tuesday to kick off this year's event, which is sponsored by Visit Oceanside.

It’s Film Week in Oceanside and The Oceanside International Film Festival takes place in the heart of the Oceanside California Cultural District. This special opening night brings together two of the key pillars in the Cultural District; OIFF and OMA.

This year will feature an Opening Night Screening Event of the 20th Anniversary of the iconic surf film “Blue Crush” with a very special Q&A after the film featuring director John Stockwell with actresses Kate Bosworth, Sanoe Lake and more.

Before the screening join the BLUE CRUSH Director and film stars as they walk the carpet at the 2022 Opening Night Red Carpet Ceremony taking place at the Oceanside Museum of Art in Downtown Oceanside. This outdoor event from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm on Tuesday will come with a networking mixer for local and out-of-town filmmakers to meet and mingle before the week of screenings.

After the red carpet, guests will walk down the street to the Historic Brooks Theatre for the 6:00 pm showing of Blue Crush.

Blue Crush (2002) – Directed by John Stockwell, Lizzy Weiss (Story), and John Stockwell (Screenplay), produced by Brian Grazer.
Blue Crush was an ambitious film to shoot amidst the elements & against the complexities of water, it was a milestone achievement in both filmmaking technique and subject matter for its time. A production that sent cultural ripples through its landscape, the film empowered & spoke to millions of young women across the planet & entire industries were born as a result. Young women targeted apparel lines were developed by all the major surf industry brands and tens of thousands more people signed up to learn to surf. Global surf brands that focused for decades on young men started their own female targeting brands. To this day the sport's inclusiveness and image experiences changes brought upon by this film's release. You will hear behind the scene stories and much more for the first time in this post-screening panel discussion with Stockwell on how art can spark progress & change an entire industry forever.

The film starred an emerging cast featuring a young Kate Bosworth as Anne Marie, Michelle Rodriguez as Eden, Sanoe Lake as Lena, Matthew Davis as professional football player Matt
Tollman, Mika Boorem as Penny, Faison Love as Leslie, and a whole host of actual surfers from Hawaii and Australia.

Pro Surfers in the film – Kala Alexander, Tamayo Perry, Fred Patacchia Jr., Keala Kennelly, Rochelle Ballard, Kate Skarratt, Layne Beachley, Megan Abubo, Brian Keaulana, Brock Little, Kai Garcia, Tom Carroll, Jamie O’Brien, Bruce Irons, Braden Dias, Kalani Robb, Makua Rothman, and a very young, now a world champion, Coco Ho playing as a young Anne Marie, Kate Bosworth’s character.

Did you know? KOCT's Executive Director, Carly Starr worked on the film Blue Crush. Giving the film true Oceanside roots.

ABOUT JOHN STOCKWELL
John Stockwell is an actor director producer and writer; His most well-known performances include his roles in “Losin It” (’82) “Top Gun” (’86) and John Carpenter’s “Christine” (’83). As a director, he is well known for Turistas (2006), Crazy/Beautiful (2001) Into The Blue (2005), Blue Crush (2002). More recently Stockwell has worked on “Armed Response” with Wesley Snipes (2017), and directing and writing on “Kid Cannabis” (2014).

The Oceanside International Film Festival is brought to you by Visit Oceanside and all films will screen at the Brooks Theatre from February 22nd through February 27th. Please visit www.osidefilm.org for ticket information.

Watch a Trailer of OIFF 2022:

The festival will be In Person at the Brooks Theatre in Oceanside at 217 N. Coast Hwy. Oceanside CA. 92054. We will be following the current California and CDC guidelines. We plan for all patrons and staff to be masked indoors. Patrons will need to show proof of vaccine or a negative PCR test from within 72hrs of their visit.

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