Newportbeachindy.com - Newport Beach Film Fest Goes Virtual
Always innovative, always creative, always thinking out of the box, the annual Newport Beach Film Festival is always one of the most anticipated and exciting arts events in Southern California.
This year’s Film Festival was originally scheduled for last April, but was postponed to August 6 – 20 due to the coronavirus closures. Movie theaters were eventually allowed to reopen and it looked like the Festival was back on track, but then movie theaters were forced to close again and the Festival had to pivot and plan its next move.
That move was a screening of the world premiere of” A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story,” the film originally scheduled to be the opening night premiere for the 2020 Film Festival. The film was shown in an outdoor drive-in format on the upper level of the parking structure located between Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom at Fashion Island on August 13.