Underneath govt director Roger Durling, the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Competition (SBIFF, February 7-17, 2024) has thrived by not solely mounting a movie pageant however browsing the awards season wave, programming a ton of onstage interviews with Oscar contenders.
Yearly, screenwriters, administrators, and producers promote their movies on panels, and the likes of Kristen Stewart, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Nolan, Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt, Bong Joon Ho, Adam Driver, Renée Zellweger, Laura Dern, Viola Davis, Lupita Nyong’o, Saoirse Ronan, Bruce Dern, Jeff Bridges, Melissa McCarthy, Isabelle Huppert, Viggo Mortensen, Rami Malek, Glenn Shut, and Sam Elliott undergo in-depth tributes.
The panels, tributes, and particular screenings lure native cinephiles and the world’s few hundred Academy members keen to listen to Oscar contenders speak about their inventive course of. All tributes and panels are held in particular person on the historic Arlington Theatre, and so they’re posted on-line.
SBIFF 2024 will characteristic over 200 movies from 48 nations, in addition to red-carpet tributes to filmmakers and expertise together with Robert Downey Jr., Bradley Cooper, Lily Gladstone, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, Jeffrey Wright, Mark Ruffalo, America Ferrera, Billie Eilish, Paul Giamatti, and extra.
The Producers Panel on February 10 at 11 a.m. PT shall be moderated by The New York Instances’ Nicole Sperling. Attending shall be Jermaine Johnson (“American Fiction”), David Thion (“Anatomy of a Fall”), David Heyman (“Barbie”), Daniel Lupi (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Fred Berner (“Maestro”), Emma Thomas (“Oppenheimer”), Christine Vachon (“Previous Lives”), Andrew Lowe (“Poor Issues”), Mark Johnson (“The Holdovers”), and James Wilson (“The Zone of Curiosity”).
At 2 p.m., Roger Durling will reasonable the Worldwide Panel: Attendees embrace director Matteo Garrone (“Io Capitano”), writer-director Wim Wenders (“Excellent Days”), director IIker Çatak (“The Lecturers’ Lounge”), and sound designer Johnnie Burn (“The Zone of Curiosity”).
The subsequent Tuesday, February 13 at 8 p.m., I’ll reasonable the annual “It Begins with the Script” Writers Panel, together with Twine Jefferson (“American Fiction”), Arthur Harari (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Samy Burch (“Might December”), Josh Singer (“Maestro”), Celine Music (“Previous Lives”), Tony McNamara (“Poor Issues”), and Dave Hemingson (“The Holdovers”).
The next weekend on February 17 at 11 a.m., Madelyn Hammond moderates the Ladies’s Panel together with composer Laura Karpman (“American Fiction”), songwriter Diane Warren (“Flamin’ Sizzling”), hair and make-up nominee Karen Hartley-Thomas (“Golda”), Annapurna animation manufacturing head Julie Zachary (“Nimona”), and director Maite Alberdi (“The Everlasting Reminiscence”).
The thirty eighth version opens February 7 with the world premiere of Disney’s “Madu,” directed by Matt Ogens and Kachi Benson. After screening 95 U.S premieres and 48 world premieres from 54 nations, the pageant will shut February 17 with director-actress Heather Graham’s “Chosen Household.”
Try our entertaining “Display Speak” podcast interview with Roger Durling right here. The total program is listed right here.
