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Make your Thursday 4/1 Drive-in at SBIFF 53721f

CLICK HERE TO RSVP Reservations for Thursday April 1st at SBIFF's Drive-In Theatres are now open! The schedule is below and read all about the films on the SBIFF app and by clicking here. 8:30 AM - One-Way to Moscow 9:30 AM - Poppie Nongena 12:00 PM - By Your Side (À la folie) 1:00 PM - La Recua - The Mule Pack Train 3:30 PM - We Will Never Die 4:30 PM - The Forbidden Strings 7:00 PM - Run Woman Run 8:00 PM - The Cinderella Addiction ission is 100% FREE. ...

Interview - Tim Plester (BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY) for BACKYARD VILLAGE - Santa Barbara 2i6w42

BACKYARD VILLAGE   Santa Barbara Film Festival 2021   With actor: Tim Plester (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1043031 ) Interview by Emmanuel ITIER for filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org       Q: How did you get to play this interesting English man lost in the land of Island?   Tim: I met Marteinn Thorsson, the director of “Backyard Village”, a few years ago. Almost 10 years ago when I was in Iceland for a vacation. We had an amazing time and while we were...

GOODBYE BUTTERFLY Interview with Director Tyler Wayne and lead actor: Adam Donshik 6r423k

GOODBYE BUTTERFLY   Interview with Director Tyler Wayne and lead actor: Adam Donshik by Emmanuel ITIER for filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org    Q: How did this project come together?   Tyler: I had put together some financing for another project and it all fell apart. But I still had a third of that financing and I had to make a very low budget. I then decided to come up with this story of 3 people in a room. This is how our film was born and how it came to be. I was just t...

RECLAIM IDAHO @ Santa Barbara Film Festival 2021 interview with directors: Jim Kamoosi and Laura Wing-Kamoosi 8701

RECLAIM IDAHO @ Santa Barbara Film Festival 2021 interview with directors: Jim Kamoosi and Laura Wing-Kamoosi Interview by Emmanuel Itier for filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org Q: How did it come together and what was the idea behind this documentary?   Laura: Jim and I had done, mainly, lots of work in commercials and digital contents. We wanted to do something a little more serious. We knew Tim Faust, who is in the film, and we had been talking with him about finding some type of health care ...

Bill Murray to receive the Maltin Modern Master Award 4l2b18

BILL MURRAY  MALTIN MODERN MASTER AWARD FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2021 @ 6:00PM us for a 90+ minute online live-streamed conversation with the honoree about his entire career. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE! ...

SBIFF 2021 The Trailers playlist 4r295u

Online component of thefestival will include all of the Celebrity Tributes, Discussions, Filmmaker Q&As and over 100 films. Two high end beach side Drive-ins will include select films, all with FREE ission! (RSVP required 24 hours in advance of showtime.= Watch the trailers:  https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBK2ioGjkLt6mZJaOOKKDO6xgusPxoPKI ...

INVISIBLE VALLEY: The team Interviewed - Opening night film at SBIFF 4t1u3v

INVISIBLE VALLEY Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2021 Directors: Aaron Maurer and Producer: Zach McMillan   Interview by Emmanuel Itier         Q: Tell me how this project came together and what was the idea behind it?   Aaron: It came together as the request to show the world of migrant workers. We live in New York and, at first, we were not sure we could tell that story. But we felt we could look at the story of migrant workers in relat...

SBIFF's Variety Artisans Award announced! 4p6h4e

VARIETY ARTISANS AWARD MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2021 @ 6:00PM CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS Variety’s seventh annual Artisans Awards celebrates those essential to the filmmaking process and who have exhibited the most exciting and innovative work of the year in their respective fields.  The Tribute evening will take place online Monday, April 5th at 6:00pm and will be moderated by Variety’s Senior Artisans Editor Jazz Tangcay   The Variety Artisans Award will be presented to Al...

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announces this year’s recipients of the Outstanding Directors of the Year 6t3w36

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival just announced this year’s recipients of the Outstanding Directors of the Year Award. This honor was created to recognize a select group of directors who have pushed the boundaries in their storytelling and created films that showcase the art of filmmaking at its best. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), David Fincher (Mank), Lee Isaac Chung (Minari), and Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) will receive their awards and discuss their work on Tuesda...

Carey Mulligan to receive the Cinema Vanguard Award at the 36th Santa Barbara Film Fest 1c1t2w

Carey Mulligan is set to receive the Cinema Vanguard Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Mulligan will be honored on April 5th and will be recognized for her remarkable career and most recent performance in Focus Features’ dark comedy “Promising Young Woman” written, produced and directed by Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve, The Crown). Mulligan’s performance in “Promising Young Woman” has already garnered her significant awards r...

Santa Barbara SBIFF will open with INVISIBLE VALLEY directed by Aaron Maurer 3j3b5m

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), presented by UGG®, announced today the highly anticipated lineup for the 36th edition, which will run March 31 to April 10, 2021. The festival will feature 47 world premieres and 37 U.S. premieres from 45 countries, along with tributes featuring the year’s top talent, discussions, and free community education and outreach programs.   The festival will take on an entirely new look this year, as well, with the build-...

Santa Barbara International Film Festival Announces 2021 Plans 1p64

SBIFF announced that it is planning an elaborate build-out of two beachside drive-in theatres for the 36th Santa Barbara International Film Festival presented by UGG®, occurring March 31 - April 10, 2021. The drive-in theatres will be presented by Toyota Mirai and be hosted at Santa Barbara City College. They will include 80+ film screenings, all offered for FREE. RSVPing prior to arriving will be required.     “It’s imperative we bring a sense of hop...

SBIFF's Maltin Modern Master Award announced! 1b646z

  BILL MURRAY MALTIN MODERN MASTER AWARD FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2021 TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON Academy Award-nominated actor and American film legend Bill Murray is set to 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...

Amanda Seyfried to receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Montecito Award 5h4x6h

AMANDA SEYFRIED MONTECITO AWARD: FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2021   Amanda Seyfried will receive the Montecito Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Seyfried will be honored on Friday, April 9th and will be recognized for her impressive career and performance in David Fincher’s MANK from Netflix, for which she recently received Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice nominations.   “Amanda gives one of the best performances of 2020 in &q...

SBIFF's Virtuosos Award announced! 2l591v

  We are thrilled to announce the recipients to receive the Virtuosos Award presented by UGG®, an honor created to recognize a select group of talent whose noteworthy performances in film have elevated them into the national cinematic dialogue. Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Night in Miami), Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday), Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)...

Sacha Baron Cohen set to receive the SBIFF Outstanding Performer of the Year Award 1y2j16

Sacha Baron Cohen will receive the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. SACHA BARON COHEN   OUTSTANDING PERFORMER OF THE YEAR AWARD WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2021 ...

Delroy Lindo of Spike Lee's DA 5 BLOODS set to receive SBIFF’s American Riviera Award 421z41

Delroy Lindo is set to receive the illustrious American Riviera Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Lindo will be honored on Thursday, April 8th and will be recognized 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.  "I've been a big fan of Delroy since I saw him on stage on August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" in 1988.  H...

Santa Barbara Fest Student Showcase-in-Place Winners Announced! 5d316r

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is proud to announce the winners of its first-ever online student film festival showcasing the work of local high school and college students.   The event was created to address the fact that area student filmmakers were going to miss out on screening their films publicly due to the coronavirus pandemic, and to give these students a platform to do just that.   “We are thrilled with how our first online student film festival ...

VIDEO: SBIFF Staff Memories – on Bohemian Rhapsody 1r4r3d

  Watch SBIFF Cinema Society Clip 1 of "Bohemian Rhapsody" Q&A with Rami Malek CLICK HERE SBIFF Staff Memories Episode 7: I Need to be a Part of This By Luca Schoch, SBIFF Riviera Theatre Manager I the day when I first visited the remodeled Riviera Theatre as if it were yesterday. As I walked up to the edge of the balcony I was just astounded by the ion that had been put into creating this gem of a theatre for the S...

SBIFF Staff Memories – Will Smith: "Wake Up Every Day and Do Good" 1i4x1m

  Watch SBIFF 2006 Modern Master Award honoring Will Smith – CLICK HERE SBIFF Staff Memories Episode 3: Wake Up Every Day and Do Good By Mickey Duzdevich, Senior Programmer Now, this is a memory all about how, I ended up staying in this here town, And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you about the night we honored the prince of Bel Air. I started working for SBIFF back in 2006. I planned on it being a short-term jo...

SBIFF Staff Memories – Episode 2 mp26

  Watch SBIFF 2012 Virtuoso Award honoring Andy Serkis – CLICK HERE SBIFF Staff Memories Episode 2: This is Gonna be Great By Benjamin Goedert, Development Director I first started working with SBIFF in 2012 as an intern of the development department. During the film festival I was one of the lucky interns assigned to escort talent from their seats to the stage during the Virtuosos Award tribute. This particular year’s ...

SBIFF Staff Memories – First Impressions 4vv22

Dear friends, "I've asked the staff to come up with memories and anecdotes about events during their tenure at SBIFF and put them in writing to share with you. Twice weekly you will be receiving candid and introspective recollections from them - including a link to s, tributes and events they're recalling." – Roger Durling Watch 2011 SBIFF Directors – CLICK HERE SBIFF Staff Memories Episode 1: First Impressions By Audrey Arn, Programme...

Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho director of Parasite discusses his NEXT projects at SBIFF 2020 2p4v6c

Parasite Director Award winner of the year Interview by Stuart Macnaught & Guy Kennedy      Bong has ed HBO’s adaptation of “Parasite” as executive producer along with Adam McKay. “It will be a five to six-episode limited series; no season 2 or 3. We are developing it as a dense black comedy/crime series that thoroughly explores the rich-poor gap of our time,” said Bong. "Thank you for watching filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org"  Bo...

Best moments and videos from Santa Barbara 2020 u423u

Filmfestivals.com was covering live from Santa Barbara with pictures and videos. Photography by Mark Bennett   Herewith our coverage of the 35th Santa Barbara Film Festival     _____________ RED CARPET MOMENTS AND VIDEO INTERVIEWS  BONG JOON HO Director of Parasite Laura Dern interviewed at SBIFF - 2020 Oscar Winner Filmed and interviewed by Guy Kennedy & Stuart MacNaught at the SBIFF Red Carpet 2020 ...  ...

Laura Dern interviewed at SBIFF - 2020 Oscar Winner 1m4r2i

Filmed and interviewed by Guy Kennedy & Stuart MacNaught at the SBIFF Red Carpet 2020 ...

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