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SBIFF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts and education organization dedicated to making a positive impact utilizing the power of film. SBIFF is a year-round organization that is best known for its main film festival that takes place each year in February. Over the past 30 years the Santa Barbara International Film Festival has become one of the leading film festivals in the United States – attracting 90,000 attendees and offering 11days of 200+ films, tributes and symposiums. We bring the best of independent and international cinema to Santa Barbara, and we continue to expand our year-round operation to include a wide range of educational programming, fulfilling our mission to engage, enrich and inspire our community through film.
In June 2016, SBIFF entered a new era with the acquisition of the historic and beloved Riviera Theatre. The theatre is SBIFF’s new home and is the catalyst for our program expansion. This marks the first time that Santa Barbara has had a 24/7 community center focused on the art of film and is an incredible opportunity to expand our mission of educational outreach. Particularly important to SBIFF is making available high quality learning opportunities for underserved and vulnerable populations. Our programs and reach are more robust than ever before. ![]() Mirren and Whittaker shine at S.A.G. Awards and Santa BarbaraMIRREN AND WHITTAKER SHINE AT S.A.G. AWARDS This is the jolly season of awards in Southern California -- seems like there's a different one every week somewhere in L.A. or vicinity. Following the Golden Globes (Foreign Press Awards) a couple of weeks back we now have the Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.) awards which are similar and yet a bit different. Both sets of awards go to both film and television personalities, but the Globes recognize all kinds of categories (writers, directors, producers, etc. as do the Oscars) whereas the SAG awards are limited to performers only -- i.e., actors and actresses. Also, the Globe ceremony is held in a kind of intimate night club setting whereas the SAG show is staged in the giant Shrine Auditorium in South LA, a bit away from Hollywood proper. The list of SAG winners was by and large a replay of the Golden Globes and, for the record, here are the winners by category; Female ACTOR (ha-ha, that's the Politcally Karreck word for "actress") in a leading role: Guess who -- Could it possibly be that impossibly sexy 61 year old English lady again? -- Yep, who else but Dame Helen Mirren (nee, Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov) for her portrayal of the currently sitting queen of England in this year's most talked about picture, "The Queen", directed by In accepting her award La Helen said, (according to the LA Times) "Be still my beating heart. It's been an incredible night for me personally." And of the queen she plays, "I learned to love a person without vanity." Well, I wonder what that vain old lady over there at Buckingham palace is going to say about that. I happened to be in England at the time Liz II finally went on television to tell the English people how sorry she felt about Princess Diana's death. If that wasn't the bonfire of the vanities I don't know what was -- and the ultimate-ultimate in Crocodile tears. But -- grrr -- I still haven't seen the movie -- only clips in Santa Barbara which made me fear that Tony Blair is going to put a contract out on the guy who played him. Anyway, without remembering her from a single picture I've seen her in, I am now a die-hard Helen Mirren fan, whether I like it or not. This IS the sexiest and most elegant sixty-one year old woman alive, and you can take THAT to the bank! And, hmm -- let's see -- The other awards were: TELEVISION; Three of the four Movie awards went to black ("Afro-American") actors, which is ethnographically unusual for Hollywood, and England was strongly represented overall with, Mirren, Jeremy Irons, and Hugh Laurie. One begins to sense certain winds of change in the Hollywood airs. ALEX DELEON, Santa Barbara 30.01.2007 | Santa Barbara's blog Cat. : 79th Academy Awards Academy Awards Alec Baldwin Alex Deleon America bank Barbet Schroeder Black Narcissus Calendar Girls Chandra Wilson Comedy Diana Drama Dreamgirls Dreamgirls Eddie Murphy Elizabeth I Emeric Pressburger Entertainment Entertainment Films Forest Whitaker Golden Globe Golden Globe Award Harrison Ford HBO Helen Mirren Helen Mirren Hitler Hugh Laurie Human Interest Human Interest Idi Amin Ilyena Vasilievna Mironova Jennifer Hudson Jeremy Irons John Boorman Kevin Macdonald L.A. LA Times Last King Lindsay Andersen Little Miss Sunshine Liz II Meryl Streep Meryl Streep Michael Powell mirren Neil Jordans Oscar Oscars Politics Politics santa barbara Santa Barbara Scotland Stephen Frears Television the Academy Awards The Crying Game The Full Monty the Golden Globes the LA Times The Last King of Scotland the Oscars The Queen The Queen The Red Shoes the Santa Barbara Film Festival the Venice Film Festival Tony Blair Toronto Uganda United Kingdom AWARDS PEOPLE
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