After 12 days of screenings, panels, and interviews, the 40th annual Santa Barbara Film Festival (SBIFF) has come to an end. The closing-night film, A Missing Part (Une Part Manquante) provided an ...

On a rainy evening in Santa Barbara, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life opened the 40th Santa Barbara Film Festival. A line of umbrellas stretched along the Arlington Theatre, protecting an audience eager to ...

All eyes and senses are fixed on the lead actress Mikey Madison (Better Things), who will be paid tribute at the 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and whose performance is nothing short ...

The film features an excellent performance by Colman Domingo (the recent Gotham Award winner will be honored with the Montecito Award by Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 14), a ...

In other words, Emilia Pérez is fabulously unlike any film you’ve ever seen. It’s a LOT. And it’s definitely not for everybody. But for me, it’s one of the most compelling, refreshing, and original ...

But the film also freely — and wisely — roams away from the ... Aaron Neville’s amazing “Amazing Grace,” the good Reverend Al Green and even Santa Barbara’s own Katy Perry, tapping her gospel roots ...

Torres also showed up in the star-studded “Virtuosos” tribute night at the recent Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where she mentioned having worked with Salles on the 1996 Foreign Lands and ...

The star-studded Santa Barbara International Film Festival hits our town February 8-18 and we can’t wait. Here’s the skinny on the opening night film, Miranda’s Victim, a preview of some of the ...

When creativity and technology come together, some pretty amazing things can happen. Case in point: Remembering, the new Augmented Reality short film by Elijah Allan-Blitz. The Santa Barbara–raised, ...

Claudia Sanchez’s documentary Transmexico took the Audience Choice Award on Saturday at the Santa Barbara Film Festival ... the fest’s Spirit Award for Independent Cinema; Nays Baghai ...