Ojai Film Society // Annual Fundraiser & Special Screening

The Ojai Film Society annual fundraiser event is Friday, May 30th, at the Ojai Rancho Inn! Join us for an evening of community and movies in support of Ojai’s largest FREE event series!

Be the first to learn about the six movies we'll be featuring in our 2025 Summer Series line up at Libbey Bowl, enjoy a special screening of the Sundance award-winning film Gaucho Gaucho, and more!

Your donations support the OFS FREE screenings this summer.
This event is free to attend. We encourage you to give what you can to help us continue our work in bringing free screenings to over 3,000 attendees outdoors, in community for another 37 years!

/// THE DETAILS ///

• This event is ages 10+. Space is limited. RSVPs through this Eventbrite page are required!
• Food and drink will be available for purchase from and !
• Bring a chair and blanket for this outdoor event under the stars.

• Doors open at 6 pm and we encourage you to arrive early. The screening begins at 7:30 pm.
• We encourage walking, biking, and carpooling to the screening and ask that you arrive early.
• No outside food or drinks allowed.
• Please leave your dogs at home.

Kindly donate if you are able so we can keep these free community screenings going. Thank you!

/// THE FILM ///

Film: Gaucho Gaucho

Directors: Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw

Synopsis:
Gaucho Gaucho paints an Argentinian Western with image and sound that reach an operatic beauty. Acclaimed photographers and now three-time Sundance-fêted filmmakers Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck return with another striking nonfiction work after first taking audiences to the final stock car racetrack of Long Island with The Last Race and the secret corners of the Italian countryside in search of white truffles with The Truffle Hunters. Their focus is now on the vast mountains of Argentina, expressed in stunning black-and-white photography, and a small community of gauchos who hold profound connections to the surrounding nature and their own traditions. As older generations dispense their wisdom, the film keeps its eye toward a new generation who continue to fight for their families’ legacy in a modern world.

Press:
“Gaucho Gaucho is exquisitely crafted, with sumptuous black-and-white cinematography, camera angles framed askew, and eye-catching slo-mo sequences. Not to mention an operatic -- at times literally -- score.” - IndieWire

Awards and Honors:
2024 Sundance Film Festival
2025 Winner ASC Award | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Documentary

/// ABOUT OFS ///

Founded in 1988, the mission of the Ojai Film Society (OFS) is to present quality independent, foreign, documentary, and classic films to the Ojai Valley, outdoors, in community for FREE. We are a 501c3 non-profit that proudly reaches over 3,000+ attendees annually through our FREE Summer Series at Libbey Bowl, making us one of the largest free event series in the Valley.

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