SANTA ANA ARTS

10/17/2026

MEET CHILDREN’S AUTHOR, PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST AND ACTIVIST KRISTINA WONG THIS SAT 10/17 IN OC!

✍️ - 4:30pm Book Signing
🎬 - 5pm Documentary
🍊 - 1666 N Main St, Santa Ana
🚘 - Park at Dollar Tree

10/15/2026

WIN TICKETS TO MEET CULTURE CLASH IN SANTA ANA!

Email [email protected] with the subject line “I LOVE CULTURE CLASH” for your chance to win 2 tickets to Saturday's 7:30pm OC Film Fiesta screening in Santa Ana!

MEET HERBERT SIGÜENZA AND RICHARD MONTOYA IN PERSON!

The Culture Clash Show was a revolutionary Chicano sketch comedy show which was broadcast on Fox TV from 1993-1996. This special OC Film Fiesta presentation will mark the first time some of these sketches have been seen since the 1990s! Not to be missed! Meet Culture Clash founders HERBERT SIGÜENZA and RICHARD MONTOYA In Person!

Culture Clash was founded in the Mission District of San Francisco on May 5, 1985, including three members: Richard Montoya, Herbert Sigüenza, and Ric Salinas. Each member brought their own unique personality and skills to the troupe. Salinas was a radio DJ. Sigüenza had been in theater. Montoya had a family connection with the Chicano Movement. This comedic trio performed a kind of sketch comedy that was not simply physical comedy reminiscent of the Three Stooges but something more profound. Social criticism and engagement with real-world issues was a key feature of their performance.

Sigüenza and other members of Culture Clash follow a rich tradition of Chicano theater, tracing back to Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesiño.

Email [email protected] with the subject line “I LOVE CULTURE CLASH” for your chance to win 2 tickets to Saturday's 7:30pm screening in Santa Ana!

Check out the full OC Film Fiesta schedule, film descriptions at www.ocfilmfiesta.org!

10/14/2026

WIN TICKETS TO MEET KRISTINA WONG IN SANTA ANA SAT., OCT 17 @ 4:30PM!

Email [email protected] with the subject line “I LOVE KRISTINA WONG” for your chance to win 2 tickets to Saturday's OC Film Fiesta 4:30pm book signing and 5pm screening in Santa Ana!

MEET KRISTINA WONG AND VALERIE SOE IN PERSON!

4:30pm - Booksigning, Auntie Kristina's Guide to Asian American Activism - FREE!

5pm - Documentary Screening, The Auntie Sewing Squad Resistance Playbook

Performance artist & comedian Kristina Wong is a Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow and the first Asian American woman to be named Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama.

THE AUNTIE SEWING SQUAD RESISTANCE PLAYBOOK is a feature-length documentary that follows the Auntie Sewing Squad, a collective of mostly BIPOC women volunteers who saved the world at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the start of the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020 in the U.S., due to the Trump administration’s botched response to the pandemic, the bottom dropped out of the surgical facemask supply as healthcare workers scrambled for PPE. From this chaos the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged, when performance artist Kristina Wong created the Auntie Sewing Squad facebook group in mid-March 2020.

The Aunties came together with a mission: to protect vulnerable communities from COVID-19. This national network of hundreds of Aunties, Uncles, and non-binary volunteers turned their living rooms into “sweatshops,” where they sewed and donated cloth facemasks to counter the US government’s failure to provide protective gear for its people.

The OC Film Fiesta is the premier cinematic celebration of Orange County's diversity and multicultural heritage., and YOU can win a pair of tickets to Saturday's special Kristina Wong signing & sceening in Santa Ana!

The booksigning and screening take place at Media Arts Santa Ana's Digital Arts Space, located at 1666 N Main, conveniently accessible via the 17th St exit off the 5 in Santa Ana!

Email [email protected] with the subject line “I LOVE KRISTINA WONG” for your chance to win 2 tickets to tonight's 7pm screening in Santa Ana!

Check out the full OC Film Fiesta schedule, film descriptions at www.ocfilmfiesta.org

10/08/2026

WIN TICKETS TO TONIGHT'S OC FILM FIESTA QUETZAL DOCUMENTARY SCREENING IN SANTA ANA!

Email [email protected] with the subject line “I LOVE QUETZAL” for your chance to win 2 tickets to tonight's 7pm screening in Santa Ana!

The OC Film Fiesta kicks off tonight at 7pm in Santa Ana with a special screening of Akira Boch's wonderful documentary LET THE CITY SPEAK: THE SONIC JOURNEY OF QUETZAL, and YOU can win a pair of tickets to tonight's screening in Santa Ana!

Special Guests Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez from Quetzal will be joining director Akira Boch for tonight's screening, which takes place at Media Arts Santa Ana's Digital Arts Space, located at 1666 N Main, conveniently accessible via the 17th St exit off the 5 in Santa Ana!

Are you a Quetzal fan? Do you know Quetzal and Martha from the local Sonero scene?

You won't want to miss tonight's screening!

Email [email protected] with the subject line “I LOVE QUETZAL” for your chance to win 2 tickets to tonight's 7pm screening in Santa Ana!

Check out the full OC Film Fiesta schedule, film descriptions at www.ocfilmfiesta.org

10/07/2026

Thanks to Culture OC for their write up on this year’s OC Film Fiesta in their story on the 2026 Orange County Film Festivals! The festival kicks off tomorrow @ 7pm with a great documentary about the Chicano rock band Quetzal, with special guests!

OC FILM FIESTA

When: Oct. 8-18
Where: TVGB Digital Maker Space in Santa Ana, 1666 N Main in Santa Ana

Contact: http://www.ocfilmfiesta.org

Cost

• $10 for general admission to ticketed screenings
• $5 for students, teachers, military/veterans and Santa Ana residents
• $81.88 for the Early Bird full festival pass
• $55.20 for the Early Bird virtual-only pass

Tickets to Opening Night film: Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal with Special Guests, Thurs., Oct. 8 @ 7pm

https://ocfilmfiesta2026.eventive.org/schedule/6aac67ab8c39bc3779e99f13

OC Film Fiesta returns Oct.8-18 with more than 50 feature films and shorts from around the world, presented in person and streaming online, along with workshops, parties, and special guests that highlight Orange County’s cultural and artistic diversity. This year’s offerings further connect local aspiring artists and community members with an interdisciplinary collection of filmmakers and artists, many outside of mainstream filmmaking and with strong Southern California ties.

“(It offers people) a chance to meet their stars and talk to them, pick their brains, like, how do I do that, how did you get your start?” said Victor Payan, co-founder of OC Film Fiesta and executive director of Media Arts Santa Ana (MASA). “That’s always a big part of what we do when we bring artists and community together, it’s that knowledge transfer, creating friendships and not really having a red velvet rope like you have in some festivals.”

OC Film Fiesta opens on Oct. 8 with a screening of Akira Boch’s documentary about Grammy Award-winning Chicano rock band and grassroots activists Quetzal, “Let the City Speak,” during which Boch and band members Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez will be special guests.

“The Auntie Sewing Squad Resistance Playbook,” a documentary about the sewing collective that sewed and distributed free cloth face masks at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, will screen on Oct. 17, followed by a reading and book signing of Wong’s book “Auntie Kristina’s Guide to Asian American Activism.”

“Rockin’ Wizards,” a new documentary about Chicano Anaheim breakdancing crew the Rockin’ Wizards, will also screen on Oct. 17, with members of the breakdancing crew and director Marissa Herrera in attendance.

Other screenings and special guests include Herbert Sigüenza from Culture Clash, the Chicano comedy trio that stars in the video compilation “The Best of the Culture Clash Show,” and “Calles du Cinema: Spotlight on Mario Dávila,” which will feature Dávila’s short film “Siempre en la mira,” along with a conversation with the Mexican “grindhouse” genre filmmaker.

Other notable selections include David Alvarado’s “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez,” Luis Valdez’s classic film “Zoot Suit” and selections from “New Cinema from Iran.”
MASA will also be sharing “What’s up, SA?” a set of short projects created by participants of MASA’s Santa Ana Multimedia Institute cultural affairs program, which teaches community members how to make videos, from public service announcements to visual poems. For Payan, expanding people’s access to the technology and skillsets that will allow them to share their voice is at the core of MASA’s work and OC Film Fiesta’s values.

“We’re living in real difficult times in terms of censorship and communities under attack and fighting for democracy,” he said. “It’s the independent voices, like the kinds of artists that we feature, that really are going to help us get through this, to organize and mobilize communities around issues.”

Let the City Speak follows the journey of Quetzal, a Chicano rock band that emerged from East Los Angeles’ vibrant music and art scene in the mid 90’s. Band leaders Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez found a philosophy in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico that they decided to live by, resulting i...

10/06/2026

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY! BE PART OF THE PREMIER CINEMATIC CELEBRATION OF OC’S DIVERSITY AND MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE! Volunteer at the 17th OC Film Fiesta, which takes place Oct. 8-18 in Santa Ana!

HAVE FUN! EARN FREE TICKETS! MEET FILMMAKERS! MAKE FRIENDS! GET VALUABLE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE!

Email [email protected] for more info
or sign up at www.ocfilmfiesta.org or via the QR Code! Volunteer Today!

The OC Film Fiesta is presented by Media Arts Santa Ana (MASA), a project of Community Partners, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Additional support is provided, in part, by the California Arts Council, a state agency, the City of Santa Ana Investing in the Artist grant, OC Biz and Stay Connected OC Alta y Sur California.

Get more information at www.ocfilmfiesta.org!

09/30/2026

Hello, Friends! The 17th OC Film Fiesta starts on Thursday, October 8, 2026, and we have plenty of great volunteer opportunities! Earn tickets to screenings with volunteer shifts!

Be part of the premier cinematic celebration of Orange County’s Diversity and Multicultural Heritage! Volunteer for the OC Film Fiesta and earn free tickets to see the films and more!

We will have a volunteer meeting this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 @ 6PM at Media Arts Santa Ana's TVGB Digital Maker Space, located at 1666 N Main in Santa Ana at 17th St across from Norms! Sign up and prep for the festival launch!

For information about this year's OC Film Fiesta, films and schedule, visit www.ocfilmfiesta.org.

Can’t make the meeting? Sign up online to volunteer!

https://www.masamedia.org/index.php/volunteer

We have volunteer opportunities for:

• Community Outreach
• Social Media
• Event Crew
• Volunteer Coordination
• Technical Crew
• Documentation
• Marketing/Promotions
• Fliering
• Ticket and Pass Sales

OC FILM FIESTA VOLUNTEER MEETING & PIZZA PARTY

TVGB Digital Maker Space
Friday., Oct. 2 @ 6:00pm
1666 N Main, Santa Ana, CA 97201
(At 17th St, across the street from Norms in the green and white Santa Ana Arts Collective Building!)

Join us and be part of these great upcoming events! Pizza and refreshments will be provided!

Contact [email protected] for more information.

For information about this year's OC Film Fiesta, visit www.ocfilmfiesta.org.

Schedule subject to change.

Please also help share and repost our social media! Here are our links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MASAdigital
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediaartssa

Thank You,

- Victor

Victor Payan
Founding Director
Media Arts Santa Ana (MASA)
www.masamedia.org

09/26/2026

Media Arts Santa Ana and OC Film Fiesta Director Victor Payan is interviewed on Luis Mier's OC BIZ LIVE webcast talking about this year's festival, which runs from Oct. 8-18, 2026, with a special FREE pre-festival community watch party of the great documentary ASCO: WITHOUT PERMISSION on Friday, Oct. 2 @ 8pm at MASA's digital maker space, located at 1666 N Main in Santa Ana!

For festival info, lineup, tickets and special guests, visit http://www.ocfilmfiesta.org

The 17th OC Film Fiesta returns to Santa Ana Oct. 8-18, 2026, with another great celebration of Orange County's diversity and multicultural heritage!

This year's OC Film Fiesta open opens on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 @ 7PM with LET THE CITY SPEAK, Akira Boch's wonderful documentary about GRAMMY-winning Chicano rock legends Quetzal. Special Guests include AKIRA BOCH, QUETZAL FLORES and MARTHA GONZALEZ.

Festival highlights also include the the Kristina Wong documentary THE AUNTIE SEWING SQUAD RESISTANCE PLAYBOOK plus book signing with Kristina, THE BEST OF THE CULTURE CLASH SHOW, Mexican grindhouse sensation MARIO DÁVILA, ROCKIN' WIZARDS, the fantastic new documentary about the legendary Anaheim breakdancing crew, Media Arts Santa Ana's own WHAT'S UP, SA? and amazing selections of NEW CINEMA FROM IRAN.

The festival will feature a double feature of David Alvarado's Sundance Award-winning documentary AMERICAN PACHUCO: THE LEGEND OF LUIS VALDEZ and Valdez's classic film ZOOT SUIT on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16.

Most films will also be available for streaming online throughout the United States as part of the Virtual OC Film Fiesta, which also kicks off on Thursday, October 8.

This year's Film Fiesta includes more than 50 feature films and shorts from from throughout the USA, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, China, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, Rwanda, Malaysia, Switzerland and More!

The OC Film Fiesta is an important presenter of works by BIPOC, AAPI, MENASA and LGBTQ+ artists, youth, students, women, veterans, international and Orange County film makers.

To buy Early Bird Festival Passes, please visit https://ocfilmfiesta2026.eventive.org/passes/buy

SPECIAL GUESTS:

10/8 Akira Boch, Quetzal Flores & Martha Gonzalez! (OPENING NIGHT: Let the City Speak)!
10/9 OC Filmmakers!
10/10 Mario Dávila (Mexican Grindhouse Phenom)!
10/14 Herbert Sigüenza!
10/17 Kristina Wong and Valerie Soe!
10/17 Culture Clash!
10/17 Marissa Herrera & Members of OC's legendary Rockin' Wizards Breakdancing crew!

More To Be Announced!


FILMS INCLUDE:

• Let the City Speak (Opening Night Film with Special Guests!)
• The Auntie Sewing Squad Playbook
• The Best of the Culture Clash Show
• Calles du Cinema Spotlight on Diego Dávila
• Beyond the Genocide
• What's Up, SA?
• Films from Orange County
• Iranian Films
• Films from Mexico, Canada, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, China, Turkey, Bulgaria, Rwanda, Malaysia, Switzerland and More!

Buy Your Early Bird Festival Passes Today at https://ocfilmfiesta2026.eventive.org/passes/buy

Visit www.masamedia.org or email [email protected] for more information and stay tuned for our amazing lineup!
See You At The Film Fiesta!

Victor Payan
Executive Director
Media Arts Santa Ana (MASA)
www.masamedia.org

https://vimeo.com/1230398691

Media Arts Santa Ana and OC Film Fiesta Director Victor Payan is interviewed on Luis Mier's OC BIZ LIVE webcast talking about this year's festival, which runs from Oct. 8-18, 2026, with a special FREE pre-festival community watch party of the great documentary ASCO: WITHOUT PERMISSION on Friday, Oct...

09/23/2026

The 17th OC Film Fiesta returns to Santa Ana Oct. 8-18, 2026, with another great celebration of Orange County's diversity and multicultural heritage! Visit www.ocfilmfiesta.org for full schedule and lineup!

This year's OC Film Fiesta open opens on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 @ 7PM with LET THE CITY SPEAK, Akira Boch's wonderful documentary about GRAMMY-winning Chicano rock legends Quetzal. Special Guests include AKIRA BOCH, QUETZAL FLORES and MARTHA GONZALEZ.

Festival highlights also include the the Kristina Wong documentary THE AUNTIE SEWING SQUAD RESISTANCE PLAYBOOK plus book signing with Kristina, THE BEST OF THE CULTURE CLASH SHOW, Mexican grindcore sensation DIEGO DÁVILA, ROCKIN' WIZARDS, the fantastic new documentary about the legendary Anaheim breakdancing crew, Media Arts Santa Ana's own WHAT'S UP, SA? and amazing selections of NEW CINEMA FROM IRAN.

The festival will feature a double feature of David Alvarado's Sundance Award-winning documentary AMERICAN PACHUCO: THE LEGEND OF LUIS VALDEZ and Valdez's classic film ZOOT SUIT on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16.

Most films will also be available for streaming online throughout the United States as part of the Virtual OC Film Fiesta, which also kicks off on Thursday, October 8.

This year's Film Fiesta includes more than 50 feature films and shorts from from throughout the USA, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, China, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, Rwanda, Malaysia, Switzerland and More!

The OC Film Fiesta is an important presenter of works by BIPOC, AAPI, MENASA and LGBTQ+ artists, youth, students, women, veterans, international and Orange County film makers.

To buy Early Bird Festival Passes, please visit https://ocfilmfiesta2026.eventive.org/passes/buy

SPECIAL GUESTS:

10/8 Akira Boch, Quetzal Flores & Martha Gonzalez! (OPENING NIGHT: Let the City Speak)!
10/9 OC Filmmakers!
10/10 Diego Dávila (Mexican Grindhouse Phenom)!
10/14 Herbert Sigüenza!
10/17 Kristina Wong and Valerie Soe!
10/17 Culture Clash!
10/17 Marissa Herrera & Members of OC's legendary Rockin' Wizards Breakdancing crew!

More To Be Announced!

FILMS INCLUDE:

• Let the City Speak (Opening Night Film with Special Guests!)
• The Auntie Sewing Squad Playbook
• The Best of the Culture Clash Show
• Calles du Cinema Spotlight on Diego Dávila
• Beyond the Genocide
• What's Up, SA?
• Films from Orange County
• Iranian Films
• Films from Mexico, Canada, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, China, Turkey, Bulgaria, Rwanda, Malaysia, Switzerland and More!

Buy Your Early Bird Festival Passes Today at https://ocfilmfiesta2026.eventive.org/passes/buy

Visit www.masamedia.org or email [email protected] for more information and stay tuned for our amazing lineup!
See You At The Film Fiesta!

Victor Payan
Executive Director
Media Arts Santa Ana (MASA)
www.masamedia.org

https://youtu.be/W2NMxn_zR8A

The 17th OC Film Fiesta returns to Santa Ana Oct. 8-18, 2026, with ...