Ojai Film Society Annual Fundraiser & Special Screening

AN EVENING IN SUPPORT OF OJAI'S LARGEST FREE EVENT SERIES!

Help us continue our work of bringing screenings to over 3,000 attendees a year — outdoors, in community, for free — for another 38 years!

Join the Ojai Film Society on Friday, May 22, at the Ojai Rancho Inn for our annual fundraiser. Attendees will enjoy music, food, and a special screening of the 2026 Sundance Award-Winning National Geographic Documentary film, Time and Water, with Oscar-nominated director Sara Dosa! PLUS, we will be announcing the 5th Summer Series lineup at Libbey Bowl!

This event is free. Registration is required. Ad-ons are optional and include OFS branded goodies!

/// THE DETAILS ///

• This event is ages 10+. Space is limited. RSVPs through this Eventbrite page are required!
• Doors open at 6:00PM and we encourage you to arrive early to grab food and drinks with music by Fire Breathing Panther.
• The presentation will begin at 7:30PM.
• Food and drinks will be available for purchase, including drinks and movie snacks from Chief's Peak, Danger Dogs by Shelby Smith, vegan delights from Casey Dobbins, and sweet treats from Ojai Ice Cream.

• Bring a blanket and/or a low chair.
• We encourage walking, biking, and carpooling to the event.
• No outside food or drinks allowed.
• Please leave your dogs at home.
• OFS Merchandise will be for sale by check, Venmo or Paypal. You can also make donations at the event.

Help us keep movies free! .

/// THE FILM ///

Film: Time and Water

Run Time: 93 Minutes

Director: Sara Dosa

Synopsis

Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.

How do you say goodbye to what you never thought you could lose? That’s the question Magnason grapples with in Sara Dosa’s ambitious new project following her 2022 Sundance Film Festival breakout Fire of Love. Tasked to write the eulogy for Okjökull, the first glacier to be declared dead due to climate change, Magnason reflects on how glaciers create an archive of deep time within their ice over millions of years. Likening this idea of the depth of time to intergenerational memory, he sets out to pass along the stories of his grandparents for future generations, before they too vanish. Drawing from an evocative mix of photographs, home movies, myths, songs, and folk tales, Time and Water is at once an elegy for what we've lost and an attempt at cinematic time travel to retain it.

About Director Sara Dosa (in attendance)
Sara Dosa is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker whose work explores the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world. Her films interweave themes of ecology, cultural memory, and myth to illuminate how people make meaning amidst environmental and existential forces. Dosa’s body of work includes Time and Water (Sundance, 2026), Fire of Love (Sundance, 2022), The Seer & The Unseen (SFFILM, 2019), and The Last Season (SFFILM, 2015). Collectively, her films have been nominated for over 40 awards, including the Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy, and Independent Spirit Award, and have received honors such as the Peabody and the Directors Guild of America Award. Her films have screened at festivals including Sundance, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX, and Visions du Réel, as well as in partnership with institutions such as MoMA, BAMPFA, and The Louvre. In 2018, Dosa was named to DOCNYC’s inaugural “40 Under 40” list and inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Documentary Branch.Dosa holds a degree in sociology and anthropology from Wesleyan University and a joint master’s in anthropology and international development from the London School of Economics. She lives and works in California.

Press
“A nature doc mixed with autobiography, “Time and Water” is a poetic musing on intergenerational memory, a whimsical, yet staunchly political elegy for the glaciers... Dosa’s film asks: If glaciers are an archive of the Earth, how will we move into the future when we’re no longer connected directly to our past?” - IndieWire

"Forces us to ponder what remains after we've left this earth, and what kind of planet we want to leave behind." - Slate

Awards & Honors
Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection, Premieres
SXSW Official Selection

/// ABOUT OFS ///

REEL CULTURE. REAL COMMUNITY. 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. To donate, visit ojaifilmsociety.org/support

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