San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival is one of the rarest film festivals in the world which is completely dedicated for ocean related Independent films. The 12th annual edition of this festival is scheduled from February 27 – March 1, 2015. The festival will be conducted at Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.

Filmmakers can submit their documentaries, narratives, shorts, animation and full length films to this festival, and the only criteria should be followed is its relation with ocean. The movie should be cinemaquatic, and it should be somewhere related to oceans.

Apart from oceanic themes, movie makers can also submit movies which are related to wildlife, environmental, conservation, seafaring adventures, sports and coastal cultures. The festival has huge number of people following, and it will surely help filmmakers to take their movies to a new level of exposure.