Sponsorship Opportunities
Connect your brand with an engaged audience through meaningful partnerships, memorable festival experiences, and the power of great storytelling.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Screenings + Receptions
Support premiere screenings, afterparties, receptions, and curated guest experiences that put your brand in front of festivalgoers.
VIP + Guest Engagement
Create memorable touchpoints through lounges, gifting, food and beverage activations, hospitality moments, and premium audience interaction.
Film Tracks + Thematic Series
Support programming areas such as Military Film Series, Student Films, Culinary Cinema, Women in Film, International Cinema, and Screenwriting.
Education + Outreach
Align with programming that strengthens local engagement and supports CIFF’s role as a nonprofit arts organization serving the broader community.
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.
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.