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Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) reveals 2024 dates

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The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) has announced the 39th annual festival will take place in Santa Barbara, CA from February 7 through February 17, 2024.

“We just had a record year with packed houses showcasing over 200 films, and plenty of seminars, panels and tributes, and we hosted the eventual 2023 Oscar winners from 18 film categories;  proving once again that the love of watching films in person and celebrating cinema is alive and well in Santa Barbara!” says Roger Durling, SBIFF’s Executive Director.

Official events including screenings, filmmaker Q&As, industry panels, and celebrity tributes, will be held throughout the city, including at the historic Arlington Theatre.

Earlier this year at the 38th edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, it celebrated an array of top award contenders such as Oscar winners Jamie Lee Curtis, The Daniels, Brendan Fraser, Key Huy Quan and Cate Blanchett, nominees Angela Bassett, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Austin Butler, Kerry Condon and Stephanie Hsu, as well as Jeremy Pope, Jeremy Strong, Danielle Deadwyler and Nina Hoss. It had a program of 200 films from 43 countries and drew filmmakers from Turkey, India, Israel, and Sierra Leone, half of whom were women. Passes to the Festival will go on sale in August at 25% off. The festival lineup and schedule will be announced January, 2024.

38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival Virtuosos Award winners: Austin Butler, Danielle Deadwyler, Ke Huy Quan, Nina Hoss and more [VIDEO]

38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival Producers Panel – “Find the thing you care to tell a story about” [VIDEO]

38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival Writers Panel featuring Sarah Polley, Ruben Östlund, Rian Johnson, Kazuo Ishiguro and more [VIDEO]

Cate Blanchett honored with Outstanding Performer of the Year Award at 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival [VIDEO]

Angela Bassett receives Montecito Award at the 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival [VIDEO]

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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