About The Festival
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Ag & Art Film Festival - Est. 2019
The Ag & Art Film Festival celebrates agriculture and art through storytelling & cinema.
The Ag & Art Film Festival was started in 2019 by filmmaker and small farm advocate, Lisa Murray.
In 2023, the festival celebrated. the 5th year! We are taking 2024 off to rest and dream and rebuild.
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Filmmaker Q&As
Stay after the screening for the filmmaker Q&A that happens directly after the movie. Ask your questions. Deepen the experience.
Special Events
As a Festival Pass holder, you are invited to special local food & wine events. This is where you can mix & mingle with filmmakers, farmers, artists, and people in the community.
Festival Director: Lisa Murray
Lisa has over 15 years experience in the film & music industries working at Paramount Pictures - working the Dreamworks distribution team and with Dreamworks Animation, Amblin Entertainment, MTV Films, LucasFilm, Bad Robot Productions, Red Hour Films, Cruise/Wagner Productions - and in International Publicity at Warner Bros. Pictures. She is an independent filmmaker and co-owns a music-production company with her long-time business & life partner, multi-platinum songwriter/producer, Dapo Torimiro.
In 2017, Lisa moved from Los Angeles to Northern California to heal from personal loss. While there, Lisa got involved with helping local farmers with their marketing and getting organized. From the regular interaction with the farmers, Lisa was drawn into wanting to help them even further. She was one of the founding members of the Pleasants Valley Agriculture Association (PVAA) - a collection of local farms in Vacaville, CA.
Her interest in helping save small farms grew out of that time and shortly after the beginning of Pleasants Valley Agriculture Association, Lisa started the Ag & Art Film Festival in 2019. Her tenacity and drive pushed the festival through its second and third years during the pandemic as she pivoted the festival in 2020 & 2021 to be an outdoor festival, screening films at farms, ranches & wineries.
In 2022, Lisa expanded the "ag & art" brand when she launched the Ag & Art Magazine in May. The magazine supports and celebrates local farmers and local artists by listing their events for free.
