Buckle your seatbelts and get ready for an exhilarating ride on the ingenuity express. Innovative filmmaking, contemporary art, stimulating debate, music and thought-provoking photography form the foundation of a festival that truly celebrates art in all its forms. It’s five jam-packed days of independent film, presented in a half dozen unique venues including the world famous Carmel Beach. A two-day outdoor fine art fair, a photography exhibition, tech expo, music café, lectures, gallery art openings, and an art auction round out the artistic adventure, which is then wrapped in a finely spun cocoon of fine wines and inventive cuisine from a region widely recognized for both. In other words, the parties are pretty great, too.  Add in a natural setting as spectacular as any in the world, and you have the perfect destination for a total arts immersion plunge.