Laguna Beach Coast Film and Music Festival Guide Saturday November 1 2025 thru Sunday November 9 2025.
Laguna Beach Coast Film & Music Festival is an annual showcase of adventure and non-fiction films and stories from the mountains to the sea.
Coast Film and Music Festival has a vision to bring together the outdoor and ocean communities and inspire positive change through the power of film.
The event is a gathering of adventure filmmakers, professional athletes, and change makers.
Enjoy unique and inspiring stories that are curated to entertain, inform, and inspire audiences of all ages to push personal boundaries and be better stewards of the planet.
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Coast Film and Music Festival Schedule
Saturday November 1 2025
7:00pm-9:00pm: ‘The Eyes of Ghana’ + ‘Then Comes the Body’ | Presented by OC World Affairs Council
Produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, this documentary is a profound exploration of how cinema shapes national history, identity, and collective memory.
Presented by OC World Affairs Council with guest speaker Jayne Herring
Rivian South Coast Theatre Is Located at 162 South Coast Highway In Laguna Beach
Sunday November 2 2025
11:00am-1:00pm: Film Scoring and Songwriting Workshop with Matt Costa and Tom Dumont of No Doubt
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
2:00pm-3:30pm: Film Screening: ‘Big Rock Burning’ + ‘The Fire Poppy’
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
500pm-7:15pm: Short Film Block Featuring : ‘Arctic Alchemy’, ‘Eliot Jackson: Drop the Mic’, ‘Love Letters: A Love Note to Skateboarding’, ‘Reel Rock: Death of Villains’, ‘Your Last Best: A Memphis Rox Story’.
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
7:00pm-9:00pm: Film Screening ‘Andre is an Idiot’ + ‘If I Disappear’
Rivian South Coast Theatre Is Located at 162 South Coast Highway In Laguna Beach
8:00pm-10:15pm: Film Screening ‘The Eyes of Ghana’ + ‘Then Comes the Body’
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
Monday November 3 2025
5:00pm-7:15pm: Our Oceans Short Film Block With Guest Speakers Features Bitter Water, Brothers of the Sea, Caught, Epicenter, Rock | Plastic | Salmon, Sea Country, The Kelp We Breathe, Year of the Bluefin.
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
7:00pm-9:00pm: Film Screening ‘Out of Plain Sight’ + ‘When the Storms Hit’ with Special Guests | Presented By Pacific Marine Mammal Center
Rivian South Coast Theatre Is Located at 162 South Coast Highway In Laguna Beach
8:00pm-1015pm: Film Screening ‘The Tale of Silyan’ + ‘Uphill Both Ways’
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
Tuesday November 4 2025
9:00am-11:00am: Nature Meditation Walk with Laguna Canyon Foundation
Nix Nature Center, Laguna Coast Wilderness Park (18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach 92651, East side of Laguna Canyon Rd/SR-133)
2:00pm-4:15pm: Film Screening ‘Comparsa’ + ‘Unless We Dance’ | Presented by World Affairs Council of OC
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
5:00pm-7:30pm: Our Lands Short Film Block Features Cottonwood, Equipo no. 3, Fish for the Future, Hellbent, Keepers of the Canyon, Monumental Moment, The Ice Builders, The Reindeer Journals, Valley Under Fire, Land to Sea.
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
6:00pm-7:00pm: Hobie Night Features Live Music and Film Screenings.
Celebrate Hobie’s 75th Anniversary | Tuesday, 11/04 with live music from Titus Haug playing 6 – 7 PM.
Followed by the screening of ‘Slab Tour’ by Nathan Florence + Hobie’s 75th Anniversary film ‘Since 1950’.
Hobie Surf Shop is located at 294 Forest Avenue
7:00pm-9:00pm: Film Screening ‘Unearth’ + ‘Here the Wild Things Are’
Rivian South Coast Theatre Is Located at 162 South Coast Highway In Laguna Beach
8:00pm-10:15pm: Film Screening ‘Andre is an Idiot’ + ‘If I Disappear’
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
Wednesday November 5 2025
8:30am-10:30am: Explorers Hike: Barbara’s Lake with Laguna Canyon Foundation
Nix Nature Center, Laguna Coast Wilderness Park (18751 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach 92651, East side of Laguna Canyon Rd/SR-133)
2:00pm-4:00pm: Animal Kingdom Short Film Block Features Chasing Roo, Between Moon Tides, Love Letter to the Unseen.
Guest speakers include: ‘Love Letter to the Unseen’- Kelly Roebuck, Emily Murphy, Josh “Bones” Murphy
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
5:00pm-6:45pm: Gravity & Grace Short Film Block Features Bridgers, In Cold Blood, Reverie, Rogatkin, Whispers, Lines.
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
7:00pm-9:00pm: Film Screening ‘Yanuni’ + ‘Twisted Braid’ | Presented by World Affairs Council of OC
Rivian South Coast Theatre Is Located at 162 South Coast Highway In Laguna Beach
8:00pm-9:45pm: Everyday Wonders Short Film Block Features Borrowed Time, Cletus, I’m Still Here, Little Liberty, Miles Between Us, Miles to Go, Momo, See Like Me, To be a Child, To Scale: Time, Assynt.
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
Thursday November 6 2025
8:00am-12:00pm: Trail Stewardship – Laguna Ridge with Laguna Canyon Foundation
Big Bend Parking Lot, Laguna Coast Wilderness Park (East side of highway 133)
9:00am-5:00pm: Coast Summit: This year’s theme, “Healthy People, Healthy Planet,” highlights the vital link between personal well-being and environmental regeneration. The Coast Summit brings together leaders from the worlds of sustainability, adventure, business, wellness, and storytelling in a format that blends the energy of a trade show with the insight of a summit.
Rivian South Coast Theatre Is Located at 162 South Coast Highway In Laguna Beach
1:00pm-3:00pm: Film Screening ‘Unearth’ + ‘Here the Wild Things Are’
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
4:00pm-6:00pm: Healed By Nature Short Film Block Features Swimming with Butterflies, Call to Serve, Gangsta Gardener, Mother River, Powered by Community: Food is Medicine, The Book of George, The Life We Have.
Laguna Beach Cultural Arts Center is located at 235 Forest Avenue
5:30m-8:30pm: Free Event Films On Forest Features Live Music with Jason Feddy
Followed by a curated selection of Stoker Short Films:
-A New View of the Moon with guest speaker Wiley Overstreet
-Unicorn Sashimi
-Brain Waves: An Andy Davis Story
-When Dishwashers Were Kings with guest speakers Director Brent Englund, Editor Ian McMullen, and Photographer Ben Eng
-Best Day Ever with guest speakers Gretchen Dsouza, Greg Durso, and Director Berne Broudy
Live Music from Party Foul
Forest Ave Promenade
