Central Coast Film Festival

Central Coast Film Festival is an international film and art event created by filmmaker and actress, Rena Riffel, known for her roles in Showgirls (1995), Mulholland Dr. (2001), Striptease (1996).
Formerly known as Concrete Dream Film Festival, is now relaunching as Central Coast Film Festival to embrace the Central Coast of California's beautiful film locations and a new frontier of opportunity for indie film makers which also holds great film and literary history.
The festival program consists of art-house and experimental films in every genre.
Our mission is to bring awareness, recognition, and publicity to the films and their filmmakers. By showcasing films and filmmakers who successfully break boundaries of commercialized formulas, we believe we can set an expansive example and create a wider appreciative audience which can make a positive impact on the arts and entertainment industries.
We are interested in films that are thought provoking and innovative, inspiring and artistic, structurally different, successful at executing risk taking choices, progressive artistic processes in the execution of film-making, and production techniques that better the experience of outdated formulas.
We believe there is a large audience in the world that would appreciate these types of films opposed to the more hugely publicized formulaic block busters. We believe there is a healthier way to make films, a more satisfying way to completion of a project, and a more contemplative, meditative execution compared to the outdated modes of worn out mindsets. We want to change the movie industry one art film at a time.