Santa Barbara Film Festival

The 23rd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival is on from January 23rd to February 3rd!
The film festival will honor, among others, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Gosling, and Javier Bardem.
It will also feature many wonderful films from all around the world, and many World and/or American premieres.

Major categories of films this year are:

EASTERN BLOC-featuring films from Eastern Europe;
REEL NATURE- the nature films series programmed by renowned nature cinematographer and Santa Barbara resident Mike DeGruy
EAST X WEST- a collection of the best cinema from Asia
TO THE MAXXX-is programmed by Santa Barbara filmmaker Russ Spencer and features extreme sports films and documentaries including the World Premiere of Jeremy Gosch’s “Bustin’ Down The Door,” with Shaun Tomson, Peter Townend, Mark Richards, Wayne Bartholomew, Ian Cairns, narrated by Edward Norton and featuring one of Santa Barbara’s main pastimes…surfing!
LATINO CINEMEDIA- offers a collection of films from Spain and Latin America.
SANTA BARBARA FILMMAKERS, which includes 7 World Premiere films.