The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced the 2023 festival will take place in Santa Barbara, CA from February 8 through February 18, 2023.
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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2023 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Announces Dates
Director Damien Chazelle and Olivia Hamilton attending the Outstanding Performers of the Year Tribute honoring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone — at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
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PASANG Trailer. Nancy Svendsen’s Inspiring Documentary on First Nepalese Woman Who Climbed Mt. Everest
Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest by Nancy Svendsen Ahead of the premiere at the 2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the first trailer debuted for the documentary Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest, the feature film directorial debut of filmmaker Nancy Svendsen.
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Penélope Cruz To Receive Montecito Award at Santa Barbara Film Festival for Parallel Mothers
Penélope Cruz in Parallel Mothers (credit: Iglesias Más / Courtesy El Deseo and Sony Pictures Classics) Penélope Cruz will be honored with the Montecito Award at the 37th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival for her performance in Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers. The Festival will take place in person from March 2 through March 12, 2022, and Cruz will receive the award during an in-person conversation about her career on Tuesday, March 8.
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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN Starring Sally Hawkins to Open 2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Lineup
The Phantom of the Open starring Sally Hawkins and Mark Rylance Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) announced the lineup for the 37th edition, which will run March 2 to 12, 2022. The festival will feature 48 world premieres and 95 U.S. premieres from 54 countries, along with tributes featuring the year’s top talent, panel discussions, and free community education and outreach programs.
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King Richard’s Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis to Receive Performer Awards at Santa Barbara Film Festival
(L – r) AUNJANUE ELLIS as Oracene “Brandy” Williams, MIKAYLA BARTHOLOMEW as Tunde Price, WILL SMITH as Richard Williams, SANIYYA SIDNEY as Venus Williams, DEMI SINGLETON as Serena Williams and DANIELE LAWSON as Isha Price in Warner Bros. Pictures’ inspiring drama KING RICHARD, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Chiabella James Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis will receive the Outstanding Performers of the Year Award at the 37th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Smith and Ellis will be honored at an in-person conversation about their cinematic careers leading up to their outstanding performances in this year’s King Richard from Warner Bros Pictures. .
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Santa Barbara International Film Festival Announces 2022 Dates for Live In Person Event
Mary J Blige at the 33rd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival Virtuosos Award at Arlington Theater (dp) Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced the dates for the upcoming 37th edition set to happen LIVE March 2 – March 12, 2022. Official events including screenings, filmmaker Q&As, industry panels, and celebrity tributes, will be held throughout the city, including at the historic Arlington Theatre.
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2021 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Awards – ALASKAN NETS, MIRAGE, TREES OF PEACE Win Top Prizes
Alaskan Nets directed by Jeff Harasimowicz The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) announced the award-winning films for the 36th edition with Jeff Harasimowicz’s “Alaskan Nets” winning the Audience Choice Award. Jeff Harasimowicz commented, “To say we are thrilled to win the audience choice award would be a vast understatement. To see this film resonate with audiences is a deeply humbling experience.”
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Watch First Trailer For ALASKAN NETS, Basketball Documentary Exec Produced by Chris Pratt
Alaskan Nets directed by Jeff Harasimowicz The first trailer debuted for the basketball documentary Alaskan Nets set to make its world premiere at the 36th Santa Barbara International Film Festival in the Documentary Competition on Saturday, April 3rd.
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‘Invisible Valley’ Kicks Off Santa Barbara Film Festival 2021 Lineup
“Invisible Valley” directed by Aaron Maurer The world premiere of Aaron Maurer’s Invisible Valley, a documentary about the people of California’s Coachella’s Valley, from the undocumented farmworkers to the wealthy snowbirds and Coachella Festival partiers of the Coachella Valley, will open the upcoming 36th annual edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival set to run March 31-April 10.
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Bill Murray to Receive Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Maltin Modern Master Award
Bill Murray stars with Rashida Jones in “On The Rocks” Academy Award-nominated actor Bill Murray will receive the prestigious Maltin Modern Master Award at the 36th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Murray will be honored on Friday, April 2nd for his long-standing contributions to the film industry, most recently in the role of Felix Keane in Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks opposite Rashida Jones and Marlon Wayans, for which he received Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice nominations. Leonard Maltin will return for his 30th year to moderate the evening.
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Amanda Seyfried to Receive Montecito Award at Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Amanda Seyfried in “Mank” Amanda Seyfried will receive the Montecito Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival for her career and performance in David Fincher’s Mank from Netflix, for which she recently received Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice nominations.
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Actor Delroy Lindo to Receive American Riviera Award at Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Delroy Lindo in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Actor Delroy Lindo will be honored with the American Riviera Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival for his many attributes to the art of film over the years, and most recently, his work in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods from Netflix.