Posted by Larry Gleeson
Full Movie Slate, Lineup Consists of 16 Options and 73 Shorts
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Laguna Seaside, CA (October 27, 2025)—The Coast Movie & Music Competition (CFMF) has unveiled the total movie slate for its seventh annual occasion, going down Saturday, November 1 by way of Sunday, November 9. The schedule contains 16 options and 73 shorts, with screenings on the following venues: the Laguna Seaside Cultural Arts Heart, the Competition of Arts, the Rivian South Coast Theater, The Promenade on Forest, and the Hobie Surf Store.
The festivities kick off with the beautiful characteristic documentary The Eyes of Ghana from two-time Academy Award®-winning director Ben Proudfoot and government producers Barack and Michelle Obama. The movie follows 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—private cinematographer to forgotten African icon and former Ghana president Kwame Nkrumah—as he races in opposition to blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,000 movies that captured the beginning of African independence within the fifties and sixties. But unseen by the general public, these movies could not solely rewrite Ghanaian and African historical past, however world historical past itself.
The pageant will conclude with two characteristic movies: Academy-Award winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Love + Warfare and musician Jack Johnson’s The September Classes. Love + Warfare chronicles Pulitzer Prize winner Lynsey Addario’s ascent within the male-dominated world of battle images. Her work is harmful—she’s been kidnapped twice whereas in struggle zones—which is a value she should wrestle with every time she leaves her husband and two sons to go on task. Behind the digicam, Addario is torn between her unwavering dedication to the important work of journalism and the highly effective, competing calls for of motherhood, grappling with what it actually means to observe your calling when it threatens the whole lot you love. The September Classes follows American surfers as they make a journey to the coast of Sumatra, the place they discover themselves browsing stunning waves and shedding the urgency they’ve come to dwell with as professionals. Shot on 16mm movie and that includes interviews with surfers Kelly Slater and Rob Machado, this movie takes viewers on a once-in-a-lifetime surf journey.
The opposite options screening individually embody: Tony Benna’s André is an Fool; Vickie Curtis and Doug Anderson’s Comparsa; Josh Swade’s Empire Skate; Jacob Vanderwork’s Feels Like Yesterday; Shaun and Greg MacGillivray’s Ohio: Wild at Coronary heart; Roanna Xia and Daniel Straub’s Out of Plain Sight (from LA Instances Studios, presenters of the Oscarâ-winning The Final Restore Store); Ben Masters’ The American Southwest; Tamara Kotevska’s The Story of Silyan; Jack Johnson and Chris and Emmett Malloy’s Thicker Than Water; John Hunter Nolan and Erin Brockovich’s Unearth; and Richard Ladkani and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Yanuni. The characteristic movies screening within the particular programming class “Mountain/Snow Night time” are Chris Benchetler’s Mountains of the Moon and Todd and Steve Jones’ Strain Drop.
A lot of the quick movies are programmed alongside different shorts within the following thematic blocks: “Journey Shorts,” “Animal Kingdom Shorts,” “Each Day Wonders Shorts,” “Gravity & Grace Shorts,” “Healed by Nature Shorts,” “Our Lands Shorts,” “Our Oceans Shorts,” “Operating Shorts,” “Stoker Shorts,” and “Surf Shorts.”
Shorts screening forward of particular person options embody: David Goldblum and Mark Hamill’s Large Rock Burning; Rachel Ross’ Earthworks; Kelly Gilbride’s Right here the Wild Issues Are; Charlie Turnbull’s If I Disappear; Connor Eck’s Since 1950; Gaby Scott’s The Dolphins; Sashwa Burrous’ The Hearth Poppy; Jacob Krupnick’s Then Comes the Physique; Ricky-Thomas Serikawa’s Twisted Braid; Hanz Rippe Gabriel and Fernanda Pineda Palencia’s Until We Dance; Oliver Sutro’s Uphill Each Methods; and Sean Peoples’ When the Storms Hit.
The shorts screening within the particular programming class “Mountain/Snow Night time” are Mike Schwartz’ Annika: The place She Lands; Harry Kearney and Timmy Taussig’s Heart Punch; and Ian Durkin’s Paved.
“Journey Shorts” embody: Zeppelin Zeerip and Colin Arisman’s Arctic Alchemy; Scott Secco’s Drop the Mic; Alec Yasuo Walsh’s Love Letters: A Love Word to Skateboarding; Nick Rosen and Gareth Leah’s Reel Rock 19: Loss of life of Villains; and Glen Janssens’ Your Final Finest: A Memphis Rox Story.
“Animal Kingdom Shorts” embody: Jason Jaacks’ Between Moon Tides; Skye Fitzgerald’s Chasing Roo; and Josh Murphy’s Love Letter to the Unseen.
“Each Day Wonders Shorts” embody: Dan Lio and Noam Genet’s Assynt; Palmer Morse and Derek Knowles’ Borrowed Time; James Berry’s Cletus; Sam Miller and Stephen Stinson’s I’m Nonetheless Right here: A Life on Dynamite Hill; Will Wertz and Kolton Dallas’ Little Liberty; Charlie Turnbull’s Miles Between Us, Miles to Go; Mike Schwartz’ Momo; Kate Brantley and Sarah Hughen’s See Like Me; Nicholas Dorsey’s To Be a Youngster; and Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh’s To Scale: Time.
“Gravity & Grace Shorts” embody: Joseph Fletcher’s Bridgers; Alex Heitler’s In Chilly Blood; Josh Goldsmith’s Traces; Mathieu Le Lay’s Rêverie; Keenan DesPlanques’ Rogatkin; and Josh Fairmont and Ollie Smith’s Whispers.
“Healed by Nature Shorts” embody: Cole Sax and Phil Hessler’s Name to Serve; Rocky Romano and Miranda Winters’ Gangsta Gardener; Jeremiah Schuster’s Mom River; Evan Grainger’s Powered by Group: Meals is Drugs; Karl Stelter’s Swimming with Butterflies; and Danny Schmidt’s The Guide of George.
“Our Lands Shorts” embody: Arian Tomar’s Cottonwood; Pablo Mejía’s Equipo no. 3; Matthew Benton’s Fish for the Future; Brooklyn Phillips and Sarah Stewart’s Hellbent; Ashley Kuckler’s Keepers of the Canyon; Dana Frankoff’s Land to Sea; Pete McBride’s Monumental Second; Francesco Clerici and Tommaso Barbaro’s The Ice Builders; Tony Czech’s The Reindeer Journals; and Greg Robinson’s Valley Underneath Hearth.
“Our Oceans Shorts” embody: Peter Grigsby’s Bitter Water; Ethan Edmunds and Armin Korsos’ Brothers of the Sea; Kevan Doyle’s Caught; Natalie Faye’s Epicenter; Josh Murphy’s Rock | Plastic | Salmon; Nicole Gormley’s Sea Nation (Malu Lag); Tatum Kala Davis, Natalie Aymond, Jack Phillips, and Taylor Ortiz’ The Kelp We Breathe; and Carl Rosen’s Yr of the Bluefin.
“Operating Shorts” embody: Tylor Wolter’s King of Moab; Sam Value-Waldman’s The Life We Have; and Jaden Stodart’s The Velocity Challenge: Afterparty.
“Stoker Shorts” contains: Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh’s A New View of the Moon; Ben Knight and Berne Broudy’s Finest Day Ever; Drew Miller’s Mind Waves: An Andy Davis Story; Ben Knight’s Unicorn Sashimi; and Brent Englund’s When Dishwashers Had been Kings.
Lastly, “Surf Shorts” embody: Keith Malloy and Andrew Schoneberger’s First In, Final Out; and Stab Journal’s Milk & Honey.
“Persons are searching for tales that encourage hope and produce us collectively,” says Programming Director Hayley Nenadal. “Our pageant serves as a showcase for award-winning documentaries and movies that inform necessary, stunning tales—some deal with massive concepts that problem us to suppose, whereas others are unifying experiences that resonate with audiences of all backgrounds. We’re providing precisely what our communities want proper now.”
“This pageant is greater than a passive expertise,” conclude Co-Founders Ben Warner & Enich Harris. “It’s a chance to attach with like-minded people, to spark conversations about conservation, and to ignite the spirit of journey that drives us all. Whether or not you’re discussing sustainable practices, planning your subsequent expedition, or just having fun with the corporate of fellow outside lovers, you’re contributing to a neighborhood that values and protects our pure world. Our intention is so that you can go away right here not simply entertained, however energized and impressed to make a optimistic affect. Might this pageant kindle a renewed dedication to exploring and preserving the wild locations all of us cherish.”
Tickets and passes can be found for buy on the official web site right here. Press supplies (together with movie synopses, posters, and stills; filmmaker bios and headshots; and screening places and instances) can be found right here.
About Coast Movie & Music Competition
Coast Movie & Music Competition, based in Laguna Seaside, California in 2019, is an annual celebration of outdoor-inspired cinema, tradition, and neighborhood. CFMF’s numerous programming contains movies, panels, music, artwork, and outside experiences designed to entertain, inform, and encourage audiences. The pageant is dedicated to nurturing younger filmmakers and sharing distinctive voices by way of progressive mentoring and academic packages. In 2022, they established the Coast Movie Basis, a 501(c)3 non-profit devoted to purpose-driven filmmaking that drives optimistic change by way of storytelling.
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