Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 29, 2009 under Santa Barbara International Film Festival | 
Colin Firth in A Single Man (left) and Matthew Goode in A Single Man
Colin Firth will be honored with the “Outstanding Performance of the Year Award” at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 13. The actor will be recognized for his role in Tom Ford’s Toronto ‘09 feature, “A Single Man,” which the Weinstein Company picked up in September.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on February 2, 2009 under Santa Barbara International Film Festival |
The 24th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced the winners of the 2009 festival competition. The festival, ran from January 22 through February 1.
The winning films are as follows:
The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema, given to a unique independent feature that has been made outside mainstream Hollywood, went to “Poppy Shakespeare,” directed by Benjamin Ross, and starring Naomie Harris and Anna Maxwell Martin. A cross between “Catch 22″ and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” two patients strike up an unlikely, moving, funny and tragic friendship in a psychiatric hospital.
The Best International Film Award goes to “A Woman in Berlin” (Eine Frau in Berlin), (pictured) directed by Max Färberböck. Based on a true story, a woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
The Nueva Vision Award for the best Spanish-language film was awarded to Amar a morir, directed by Fernando Lebrija and starring José María de Tavira, Martina García, Alberto Estrella, Raúl Méndez. The young heir to a vast Mexico City banking empire runs away from the cold, corrupt, racist, money-driven, super-elite, super-rich, classist world into which he was born, takes a wrong turn down a wrong road, and finds himself stranded in a poor, remote, beach community where he experiences a love at first sight with an exotically beautiful local girl–one that will place him–and her–in grave danger at the hands of a ruthless drug lord.
Best Eastern Bloc Cinema Award went to Germany’s Tulpan, directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy. About a young man who can’t achieve a long-cherished dream of tending his own flock of sheep without first acquiring a wife.
Best Documentary Film Award went to Yes Madam, Sir, directed by Megan Doneman. Kiran Bedi is arguably India’s most controversial daughter, both revered by her supporters and reviled as a publicity seeker by her critics. But no matter what people may think of her, there is no disputing her professional achievements.
Bruce Corwin Award for Best Live Action Short Film Under 30 Minutes went to Love You More, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, produced by the late Anthony Minghella, the film stars Harry Treadaway and Andrea Riseborough as two teenagers who are drawn together by the Buzzcocks’ single “Love You More” in the summer of 1978.
Bruce Corwin Award for Best Animation Short Film went to This Way Up, directed by Adam Foulkes and Alan Smith. Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.Film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short.The Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award Sponsored by The Fund for Santa Barbara for a documentary film that addresses social justice issues went to Yes Madam, Sir.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 22, 2009 under Beloit International Film Festival, FICCO-Mexico City Contemporary International Film Festi, LDS Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival |
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival opens tomorrow
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival opens tomorrow with Kate Beckinsale’s political drama “Nothing but the Truth.” The festival, which screens at the Arlington and Lobero theaters in downtown Santa Barbara, will feature 200 movies, including 20 world premieres. David Fincher is this year’s guest director, and several other Oscar contenders — including Kate Winslet and Clint Eastwood — will be honored throughout the festival, which concludes February 1. Read more …
The 2009 Mormon-related LDS Film Festival thru Saturday
The 2009 Mormon-related LDS Film Festival will screen more than 100 films over four days, including some 40 films from the festival’s 24-hour Filmmmaking Marathon contest held last week at the Scera Center for the Arts in Orem, Utah. The festival opened yesterday with the premiere of Christian Vuissa’s latest film, “Father in Israel” and continues thru Saturday, January 24, 2009. Read more …
“Milk” to open the 6th Mexico City Contemporary International Film Festival(FICCO)
Gus Van Sant’s biopic “Milk” will open the sixth edition of the Mexico City Contemporary International Film Festival. Known as the FICCO, the festival, will run February 17 thru March 1. Read more …
Beloit International Film Festival Announces 2009 Lineup
“The Stoning of Soraya M.,” produced by Stephen McEveety, who also produced the Academy Award-winning “Braveheart” and “The Passion of the Christ,” is among about 150 movies announced for Beloit International Film Festival next month. The fourth annual film festival was moved to February 19 to 22, instead of mid-January so the Beloit festival wouldn’t be held about the same time as the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Read more …
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 11, 2008 under Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF), Santa Barbara International Film Festival |
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) will welcome back five-time Academy Award nominee Kate Winslet by honoring her with the Montecito Award. Having previously received the Performance of the Year Award in 2005, Winslet returns to Arlington Theatre on Friday, January 23, becoming the festival’s first two-time honoree. [via]
Kate Winslet and the cast of “Revolutionary Road,” including Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kathy Bates, will also receive the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Ensemble Performance Award Jan. 6 at the festival’s Awards Gala. [via]
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 7, 2008 under Santa Barbara International Film Festival |
In recognition of his contributions to the world of film, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival will present the third annual KIRK DOUGLAS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM to esteemed actor/director Ed Harris.
The award will be presented to Harris on Thursday, October 2. The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will host the black-tie Gala dinner at the The Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara and will feature a look at Mr. Harris’s illustrious career.
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival returns January 22 – February 1, 2009.
