Sponsorships

Support CIFF

Sponsorship Opportunities

Connect your brand with an engaged audience through meaningful partnerships, memorable festival experiences, and the power of great storytelling.

Why Partner With CIFF

Where a century of cinema meets a decade of celebration

For more than a decade, the Coronado Island Film Festival has brought cinema, community, culture, and industry together in one of Southern California’s most distinctive settings.

CIFF sponsorship gives brands the opportunity to participate in high-visibility festival moments, thoughtful activations, hospitality experiences, and year-round programming while aligning with a respected nonprofit arts organization.

The Value of Sponsorship

More than visibility. A meaningful place in the experience.

CIFF partnerships are built to create brand connection through storytelling, hospitality, cultural engagement, and memorable moments across the festival.

Amplify Your Brand

Gain visibility among engaged audiences who value storytelling, creativity, culture, and meaningful experiences.

Unify & Inspire

Align with a festival that brings together filmmakers, changemakers, patrons, and guests who care about the arts.

Showcase Your Commitment

Demonstrate support for a nonprofit organization that elevates voices, fosters dialogue, and celebrates cinematic excellence.

High-Value Exposure

Create memorable brand touchpoints through activations, VIP experiences, hospitality, and curated festival moments.

Ways to Sponsor

Build a partnership around the moments that matter most.

Sponsorships can be customized around signature events, screenings, hospitality, community programming, branded guest experiences, and your specific marketing goals.

Signature Events

Red Carpet + Gala Moments

Align with high-visibility experiences such as the Leonard Maltin Industry Tribute Awards, opening and closing celebrations, and other standout festival events.

Festival Experiences

Screenings + Receptions

Support premiere screenings, afterparties, receptions, and curated guest experiences that put your brand in front of festivalgoers.

Hospitality

VIP + Guest Engagement

Create memorable touchpoints through lounges, gifting, food and beverage activations, hospitality moments, and premium audience interaction.

Program Alignment

Film Tracks + Thematic Series

Support programming areas such as Military Film Series, Student Films, Culinary Cinema, Women in Film, International Cinema, and Screenwriting.

Community Impact

Education + Outreach

Align with programming that strengthens local engagement and supports CIFF’s role as a nonprofit arts organization serving the broader community.

Custom Packages

Built Around Your Goals

Opportunities are available for a range of budgets, with activations tailored to your preferred audience, visibility, and brand priorities.

Be part of an experience people remember.

CIFF brings together filmmakers, industry leaders, benefactors, community supporters, and guests from Coronado, San Diego, and beyond. Sponsorship places your brand inside the experience — not simply alongside it.

Partner Connections

Organizations and brands that have aligned with CIFF

CIFF has connected with leading organizations across media, hospitality, entertainment, culture, finance, food, and beverage.

Media

  • Variety
  • MovieMaker
  • Deadline
  • KPBS
  • San Diego Union-Tribune

Premiere Partners

  • City of Coronado
  • Hotel del Coronado
  • Loews Coronado Bay Resort
  • The Auen Foundation
  • CalPrivate Bank

Industry + Alliances

  • SAG-AFTRA
  • The Geena Davis Institute
  • Amazon MGM Studios
  • FUNKO
  • Gersh

Food + Beverage

  • Blue Bridge Hospitality Group
  • Brigantine
  • Tito’s
  • Coronado Brewing Co.
  • Wilson Creek Winery

Let’s create a meaningful partnership together

Align your brand with a festival experience that celebrates storytelling, community, and culture in one of Southern California’s most distinctive settings.

Prefer to start a conversation? Email sponsorship@coronadofilm.com.
Coronado Island Film Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Federal Tax ID #46-1743322.
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