Newport Beach Film Festival Action Sports Film Series

02/25/2025

🎥 Calling all ! Submissions are now open for the 2025 Newport Beach Film Festival. Submit your film at FilmFreeway

🐦‍⬛Early Bird Deadline: February 28

https://filmfreeway.com/NewportBeachFilmFestival

11/12/2020

Check out this amazing event with Chris Burkhard and the awesome lineup at the Coast Film Festival.

is coming to Coast Film Festival 2020, director of films "Inaka", "UNNUR", and "Arc of Aleutia" all playing at this years festival. Don't miss out on watching his exclusive films, and hearing his Q&A's with other exclusive speakers. Tickets are still on sale! Link in bio
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Chris Burkard is an accomplished explorer, photographer, creative director, speaker, and author. Traveling throughout the year to pursue the farthest expanses of Earth, Burkard works to capture stories that inspire humans to consider their relationship with nature, while promoting the preservation of wild places everywhere.

Layered by outdoor, travel, adventure, surf, and lifestyle subjects, Burkard is known for images that are punctuated by untamed, energized landscapes and peak moments of adventure. He has accumulated an audience of over one million followers to become a globally recognized social influencer.

08/06/2020

Tickets are now on sale to World Premiere of Opening Night film ‘A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story’ outdoor drive-in event on August 13.

One of the most exciting arts events in Southern California is the annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019. This year’s Film Festival was originally scheduled for last April, but was moved to The LOT theaters in Fashion Island August 6 – 20 due to the co...

06/10/2020

NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS AUGUST 6 - AUGUST 20, 2020
Festival Opens With The World Premiere of 'A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story'

Newport Beach, CA (June 2020) - The 21st Annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) proudly announces its return with the world premiere of 'A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story' as its Opening Night film. The Festival, which was originally scheduled for late April, was postponed due to the COVID - 19 Pandemic. This year only, all screenings will take place at THE LOT - Fashion Island. The Festival will run for a 2 week span, August 6 - August 20, 2020, in order to accommodate all of its planned screenings. The Opening Night screening of 'A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story' will take place on Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 7:30pm in all seven cinemas at THE LOT - Fashion Island (401 Newport Center Drive).

'A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story' is the highly anticipated film from acclaimed second-generation documentarian in partnership with Irvine-based SCS. Brown lends his storytelling prowess to a truly memorable and personal piece-of-work in a form of a penned love letter to his father. A road trip turns into a rare, intimate look at the amazing life of his legendary father, Bruce Brown (The Endless Summer and On Any Sunday). Dana started the project with his father as a long-overdue "road trip" they took together traveling up the west coast and Hawaii.

“The Film is a tribute to my father. Dad started the whole action sports film genre. He broke the mold; he broke the rules; he broke open the film category. There will never be another one like him,” said Dana Brown. “We could not think of a better fit for our world premiere then The Newport Beach Film Festival which places such a strong focus on Action Sports programing and continually acknowledges Dads legacy in the Southern California Community.”

“The Newport Beach Film Festival is exceptionally proud to open its 21st edition with the world premiere of Dana Brown's moving documentary. We are thrilled to bring the community together to celebrate and honor the legacy of Bruce Brown and his impact on documentary filmmaking and surf culture,” said Gregg Schwenk, CEO and Co-Founder of the Newport Beach Film Festival. “With the Festival's long-standing commitment to action sports cinema and deep relationship with the Brown family, it is the ideal film to kick off two weeks of global film screenings and events here in coastal Southern California."

“It’s a fabulous story that has rarely been told: the freewheeling adventurous days when lifestyle sport programming was born,” says James Schiefer, Schiefer Chopshop Founder.

Due to the COVID – 19 outbreak, The Festival, along with THE LOT and health partner, UCI Health, are taking extra pre-cautions to ensure the health and safety of filmmakers and patrons. In addition to abiding by California’s current social distancing guidelines, every Festival attendee will receive no contact temperature checks, sanitizing stations will be placed throughout THE LOT, theaters will be thoroughly sanitized after every screenings and food will be served in single use containers.

The Newport Beach Film Festival is sponsored by The City of Newport Beach, Visit Newport Beach, UCI Health, Fashion Island, THE LOT and Morgan Stanley.

Passes and tickets for film screenings and special events go on sale in mid July. To purchase tickets and for information about the Newport Beach Film Festival visit
www.NewportBeachFilmFest.com.

05/29/2020

04/10/2020

Catch a screening of LA OLA SIN FRONTERAS from NBFF alumni filmmakers Julian and Joaquin Azulay, (Gauchos del Mar) at the Lockdown Surf Film Festival.

Julian & Joaquin Azulay are hardy, waveriding adventurers. In this thought-provoking documentary they seek out waves in the under explored Falkland Islands.

03/30/2020

In the mood for an uplifting story of perseverance?

film BETHANY HAMILTON: UNSTOPABBLE premiered on Netflix this weekend.

The film tells the story of surfer Bethany Hamilton, who at age 13 was out surfing when she was attacked by a 15-foot tiger shark, a run-in that cost Hamilton her left arm.
Not only did Hamilton survive the attack, but she was also back on the competitive surfing circuit less than a year later. More than a decade later, Hamilton, now a mother, undertakes her greatest challenge: chasing a toddler and the biggest wave of her career.

03/17/2020

Due to the unprecedented outbreak of Covid – 19 (Coronavirus), the Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) has announced that the annual event is rescheduled to August 6th – 13th, 2020 in and around Newport Beach, CA. The Festival made the difficult decision to postpone based on current Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.

Additionally, the Festival’s sister organization, The Orange County Film Society, will be suspending all screenings for the next 60 days.

“We are especially proud of the dedication, creativity and support of Festival staff, filmmakers and partners during this extremely challenging time. We look forward to hosting an amazing event in August.”
- Gregg Schwenk CEO and Co-Founder, Newport Beach Film Festival.