TRAVELING PROGRAM

We’re headed back to Florida to co-present with our local partners a select group of films in honor or World Ocean Day, celebrated globally on June 8th.

A group of ocean-loving NGOs have joined forces to create the World Ocean Day Florida Tour, screening some of the best, award-winning films of the IOFF 20th Anniversary celebration.

CINEMARE will be hosting its 8th annual celebration of ocean-inspired films in the coastal city of Kiel, Germany. Inspired by the IOFF, CINEMARE is the first cultural exchange event between Sister Cities - Kiel and San Francisco. IOFF hosted the first film program exchange between the two film festival partners in San Francisco in March 2018, attended by dignitaries of the SF-KIEL Sister City exchange program. CINEMARE was created to celebrate the rich heritage of Kiel as an ocean-faring port city and to collaborate across the oceans that unite us - the very same ones that we strive to protect through the powerful messaging of film.

Located in the northern part of Michigan along Lake Huron, the city of Alpena prides itself on its unique access to water, woods, and wildlife. Just offshore is the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, one of sixteen marine protected areas of the U.S. and part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Now in its 12th year, the Friends of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary are hosting the annual Thunder Bay International Film Festival, a winter tradition for audiences of all ages. Join us!

Now in its seventh year of being a member of the IOFF Traveling Program, the Korea International Ocean Film Festival will be screening a number of IOFF films. In the coastal town of Busan, a number of ocean-inspired organizations will take part in this one-of-a-kind film festival in South Korea. We hope you can join us!

The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire the conservation of the world’s aquatic treasures. The Aquarium’s award-winning habitats are home to over 20,000 animals representing 800 species of fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. Annually, 1.3 million guests visit the Aquarium, and millions more participate in its conservation, education, and engagement initiatives.