Art as Resistance 14th Annual Watsonville Film Festival
March 12
14th Annual Watsonville Film Festival Art as Resistance
March 12–21
The 14th Annual Watsonville Film Festival will take place from March 12 -21 featuring award-winning films and 50+ shorts produced by local youth and emerging filmmakers. Join us on the Red Carpet for screenings, a filmmakers summit, walking tours and after-parties with live music in Watsonville, Santa Cruz and Salinas.
This year, we uphold that film and storytelling are not only art forms, but vital forces for truth, representation, and cultural resistance.
At a time when communities of color are too often silenced or misrepresented, cinema becomes a powerful tool to reclaim agency, share our own stories, and inspire positive change.
For fourteen years, the Watsonville Film Festival has been more than a series of screenings — it is a cultural movement, uplifting Latine, Indigenous, and underrepresented filmmakers and voices while creating space for audiences to connect, reflect, and take social action.
Join us this March as we showcase a selection of films that honor resiliency, creativity, and dignity, sparking conversation and celebrating the power of community through the arts.
This year’s theme is “Art As Resistance” with inspiring films addressing a wide-range of timely issues – from immigration to the power of the arts to uplift and connect. There will also be a special presentation of the documentary “Following Harry” about the life of the legendary actor, singer and activist Harry Belafonte.
