For more than twenty years, the International Ocean Film Foundation has used the power of visual storytelling to educate and inspire thousands of people to appreciate, protect, restore, and care for our oceans. The annual OFF THE REEF Benefit Auction supports all five of our pillars of ocean education programs.

A worldwide increase in shipping traffic is threatening our oceans, its inhabitants, and the planet. Collision is a powerful feature documentary that highlights the severely under-reported issue of fatal ship strikes on whales, a threat that is endangering their very existence. The film suggests solutions to encourage and convince governments and global shipping companies to make vital changes. Director: Phillip Hamilton (UK 2023) 84 min.

Our in-person event will offer us the opportunity to gather, restore and celebrate with ocean-loving friends, both old and new. The evening will honor our 2023 Ocean Champion, highlights of award-winning independent films to be presented at the film festival in April, and a Fund a Need to help support the IOFF Youth Education Programs.  Dine and dance the night away while engaging with ocean scientists, filmmakers, directors, and ocean-loving friends. 

We invite you to join us to see the finalist’s films on the screen at the Tidepool at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco on Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 12:30 pm. This event is FREE to attend.

The IOFF Student Film Competition is designed to give young students an opportunity to tell their story about the ocean while discovering and enhancing their skills as filmmakers. Judged by an elite jury of professional filmmakers and ocean conservationists, the top three winners for each category of middle school and high school will receive a cash prize, and have their films screened in person at the 19th Annual International Ocean Film Festival on Sunday, April 10, 2022 at the Tidepool in Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.

IOFF is excited to be partnering with Blue Scholars Initiative for this World Ocean Day to bring a curated selection of films from the festival archives to audiences in Miami, Florida.

World Ocean Day - Ocean Storytelling Workshop in partnership with MARE Group

Join Shark Stewards and the International Ocean Film Festival celebrating the earth and ocean health for a World Oceans Day marine debris survey, beach clean up at Aquatic Park.

Celebrate Earth Day 2021, Restore Our Earth, with the IOFF drive-in screening at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture. IOFF is proud to present a special screening of two 2021 award-winning films, Ocean Souls, Wildlife Award, and Whales in a Changing Ocean, Director’s Award. The special drive-in screening takes place on Thursday, April 22, 2021, from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Join filmmakers Michael Peterson & Steve Hawley, and EOS Center's Marine Mammal expert Dr. Ellen Hines for a panel discussion of the film's main characters, the orcas, and the science and policy impacting their survival.

All proceeds from the event will support our Free Online Ocean Education Program, providing ocean inspired films to more than 5,000 young students around the Bay Area and throughout the state of California.

Three short documentaries about the success of Indigenous people around the world who are restoring their marine habitat. Enjoy three short films, then join filmmaker Gemma Cubero del Barrio and EOS Center's Habitat Restoration expert Dr. Kathy Boyer on December 3 at 6:30 PM PST for a panel discussion of the films and best practices for critical restoration work that includes everyone.

In case you missed the film during this year’s festival, EOS is hosting a screening of “Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy. Diver, explorer and ocean story teller, few people have loved sharks as much as Mike deGruy. With the help of Sir David Attenborough, Dr. Sylvia Earle, his family and host of scientists. Diving Deep shares Mike’s passion for filmmaking and the ocean -- two things we also love.

Shark Week Special! Join David McGuire of Shark Stewards, Anna Oposa of Save Philippine Seas, and Vince Smith of Blue Endeavors as we discuss the film Anna and the Thresher Shark and what we can do to protect sharks.

Watch a Q&A with David Craig, filmmaker of The Mill, and Joan Baxter, author of The Mill - 50 Years of Pulp and Protest. Moderated by David McGuire of Shark Stewards.

Join us as IOFF Executive Director, Ana Blanco, discusses the film Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy with filmmaker Mimi Armstrong deGruy, Dr. Sylvia Earle of Mission Blue and Paul Atkins of Moana Productions, Inc.

Join us as IOFF Executive Director, Ana Blanco, discusses the feature film Picture of his Life with film director Yonatan Nir and key cast Amos Nachoum.

Join us for an interactive conversation with moderator Dr. Robert Rubin, The Cordell Bank film producer Alexa Elliott, and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary’s Jennifer Stock and Danielle Lipski.

Join us for a conversation with Gemma Cubero del Barrio, Amelia Borofsky, Johnny Frisbie and Pio Ravarua of the film Our Atoll Speaks.

Tune is as author and ecologist, Carl Safina, discusses the intelligence of whales and the role human connection plays in their lives with Whale Wisdom film director and producer Rick Rosenthal and Katya Shirokow.