Showing 61 results for sbiff

Cultural Encounter

Central Asia Film Day

January’s SBIFF, February’s African Heritage Film Series, March’s Jewish Film Festival : for a town the size of Santa Barbara, we’ve got film festivals up the wazoo.

Immoral Cargo

Someday, someone will make a compelling story about the tragic inhumanity of the slave trade and the dishonor it brought on presumably civilized societies from an insider’s perspective rather than the angle of white male policy makers.

Of Mics and Monarchs

helen%20mirren.jpg Shannon Kelley Gould delivers the scoop on last night’s events, and J’Amy Brown provides a slideshow well worth your while.

Film Festival Citizen Podcaster Contest

The average Santa Barbara filmgoer has a chance to have his or her voice heard in this contest. Learn about the rules, and, for the technologically uninitiated, about the exciting world of podcasting.

MEDIA MADNESS

“Sara de la Guerra”the pseudonym of the author of the Weblog BlogaBarbarahas enlisted the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a First Amendment activist group, to respond to a subpoena from Santa Barbara News-Press owner Ampersand Publishing, LLC. The company reportedly subpoenaed Google to reveal the identity of the blog’s author after an anonymous threat directed at the News-Press was posted on the site on September 11, 2006. EFF wrote a letter to Judge William Schmidt, who is presiding over the News-Press hearings with the National Labor Relations Board, defending bloggers’ right to anonymity.

A Look at Santa Barbara-based Filmmakers

We may not have Hollywood to attract the world’s top filmmakers
(thank god), but we do have the Santa Barbara International Film
Festival to help retain them.

The Woodard File

score.jpg In this final installment of Josef Woodard’s SBIFF ‘007 blog, he delivers a report from the Composer’s Panel, always one of the critic’s faves. Plus, see reviews of Hounddog, Offside, Paprika, The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai, and every other film he’s seen over the past 11 days.

Login

Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription

Not a member? Sign up here.