Posted by Larry Gleeson
The 2023 Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Competition (SBIFF) is simply across the nook with its slated run from February eighth to the 18th. Whereas Santa Barbara is traditionally generally known as a Hollywood movie premiere city, SBIFF introduced this morning at its 2023 press convention, held on the Sullivan Goss Artwork Gallery in downtown Santa Barbara, a whopping 52 world premiere movies in addition to 78 US premieres! In all 43 international locations will probably be represented by way of the visible medium of movie. Los Angeles-based critic, Claudia Puig, is again because the pageant’s programming director.
OPENING NIGHT FILM
SBIFF 2023 will kick off on Opening Evening Wednesday, February 8 with the WORLD Premiere of MIRANDA’S VICTIM. Directed by Michelle Danner and starring Abigail Breslin, Ryan Phillippe, Luke Wilson, Donald Sutherland, Mireille Enos and Andy Garcia.
It’s 1963 when eighteen-year-old Patricia “Trish” Weir is kidnapped and brutally raped at knife-point. Dedicated to placing Ernesto Miranda in jail, Trish’s life is destroyed by America’s authorized system as she triggers a regulation that transforms the nation.
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
SBIFF 2023 will shut on Saturday, February 18 with the US Premiere of I LIKE MOVIES. Directed by Chandler Levack and starring Isaiah Lehtinen, Romina D’Ugo, Krista Bridges, Percy Hynes White.
Lawrence, a socially inept, 17-year-old cinephile, will get a job at a video retailer, the place he kinds an advanced friendship along with his older feminine supervisor.
Throughout his tenure as pageant director, Roger Durling, a grasp of his craft, has proven an uncanny potential in guiding the Santa Barbara Movie Competition to a really natural, distinctive and distinct taste. And, this yr appears to be no exception. Mexican movie auteur, Guillermo del Toro, has signed on to mentor a grasp class along with his newest movie, Pinocchio, to third graders as a part of the ever-expanding Mike’s Area Journey to the Films (named after long-time pageant advocate Mike DeGruy). As well as, SBIFF staffer Claire Waterhouse is spearheading the pageant’s Movie Research Program to 30 pupil recipients from throughout the nation. SBIFF’s Govt Director Roger Durling said this morning, “At a time the place there’s a dwindling of movie show attendance, the position of movie festivals has by no means been extra necessary. At SBIFF, with the thirty eighth version, our marching orders are clear, to have a good time motion pictures and to nurture and exalt the movie neighborhood, the artists in addition to the cinephiles. It’s a terrific slate with 43 international locations represented.”
Furthermore, the pageant has a formidable lineup of panels, tributes, and filmmaker seminars in retailer. Keep tuned for extra!
Passes and tickets can be found right here.
