Recently the 3D documentary film 'STORM SURFERS' (2012) made its World Premier at the 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The film is about two best friends, surfers Ross Clarke-Jones and...

The new EFA Members   actors: Colin Firth UK ★ Herbert Knaup GERMANY ★ Sven Nordin NORWAY  ★ Åsmund Andreas Swensen Høeg NORWAY ★ actresses: Anita Caprioli ITALY ★Audrey Fleurot FRANCE ★ Caterina...

  A FOCUS ON NETWORKING EFA Director Marion Döring talks about upcoming projects Looking back at the 25th European Film Awards – do you see these as the end of an era? To me,...

    Quvenzhane Wallis of Beasts of the Southern Wild before receiving her award at SBIFF. Photo by Benjamin Schwartz   **STAY TUNED!!! for 28th SBIFF interviews, film reviews and panel...

      With WONG Kar Wai serving as Jury President, the International Jury will decide who will receive the Golden Bear and Silver Bears of the 2013 Berlinale Competition.   The other members of...

By Liza Foreman And in more Berlinale news,  Johnny Depp is confirmed to star in Cross Creek's crime thriller "Black Mass," as Boston’s most notorious gangster, Whitey Bulger. Sales for...

Robert Redford and Michelle Satter talk about the history of Sundance.  

  Eight films compete for the Dragon Award Best Nordic Film. The award is 1.000.000 SEK (110 000 EUR) and a Dragon Award statuette. The Award is sponsored by the...

  Romanian director Cristian Mungiu is a prolific filmmaker with each of his feature films having held premiers at the Cannes Film Festival. His first feature ‘Occident’ (2002) screened in the...

On January 26th, actor Daniel Day Lewis spoke to a sold out audience of 2000 at the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara during the 28th SBIFF. Writer/Director/Producer Michael Mann ('The Last of The...