SBIFF Day 12 | Adventures in TBA Land
That’s a wrap on the 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival for our Senior Arts Writer.
Author: Josef Woodard
SBIFF Day 11 | The Knowing Eyes of a Child
‘Tiny Lights’ earns big praise from our Senior Arts Writer, along with Colman Domingo and other penultimate day cinematic treasures.
SBIFF Day 10 | Building on a Two-Shot
A tribute to two actors plus three films occupy our senior arts writer on the Film Festival’s 10th day.
ON the Beat | Orchestral Convergence Week
This week’s musical menu includes two concerts featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, and the next Santa Barbara Symphony program.
SBIFF Day 9 | Balletic Action Connection, and News from Mongolia
A week and some change in and our senior arts writer is still going strong.
Film Unites | A Healthy Downpour of Film Festival Action, in Progress
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival, at its mid-point, is a rich and varied 40th birthday celebration.
SBIFF Day 8 | A Completely Known
From Chalamet and Brolin’s bro-fest to the quieter moments of powerful small films, our senior arts writer is squeezing every moment of joy out of SBIFF.
SBIFF Day 7 | Of Truffles and Producers
The role of the producer is to make It happen, and indeed they did.
SBIFF Day 6 | Forever Young, Super Bowling for Stars
From Neil Young and Ariana Grande to Turkish Filmmaker Hikmet Kerem Özcan, Superbowl Sunday had something for everyone in Santa Barbara.
SBIFF Day 5 | Films for Adults, Children, and Surrealists Within
Who needs sleep? Our intrepid arts writer hits ‘The Summer Book’, ‘Mr. K’, ‘The Knife’, ‘O Horizon’, ‘The Quiet Ones’, and the Writers Panel — all in one day!
