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28th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival

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We are excited to once again be covering the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (http://sbiff.org/)
Cinema Perfecto will be on the ground filming, blogging, tweeting, interviewing and watching films so keep checking back to this blog and follow us on Twitter @CinemaPerfecto.  We are editing some clips from last years directors panel that we will put up in the next day or two.  In the meantime check out some excerpts from this years press release:

Santa Barbara, CA –The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), presented by lynda.com, announces its stellar line-up for 2013.  The 28^th edition offers a vast array of films representing 49 countries and a rich selection of films sure to delight audiences from all reaches of the globe. SBIFF is proud to welcome many promising and established filmmakers, as well as honorees to join in its grand tradition of celebrating independent film. The Festival begins Thursday, January 24 and continues through Sunday, February 3, 2013.

“As we deliver the 10^th edition of SBIFF under my helm, I feel this year’s festival offerings are the most varied, mature and fun we’ve ever had,” remarks SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling.

OPENING & CLOSING NIGHT GALAS
SBIFF 2013 will kick off at the historic Arlington Theatre with the U.S. Premiere of LD Entertainment’s Disconnect, directed by Henry-Alex Rubin and starring Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård and Max Thieriot.  Disconnect holds a mirror up to our community and our obsession with all things technical. The story introduces us to a vast collection of characters: A lawyer, an estranged couple, a widowed ex-cop and an ambitious journalist who are all strangers, neighbors and colleagues whose stories collide in this compelling drama about ordinary people desperate for a human connection.  Filmed with a somewhat voyeuristic style, Disconnect marks the first fiction feature from Henry-Alex Rubin, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Murderball, from an original screenplay by Andrew Stern.   Opening night, sponsored by Studio 7 and The Hollywood Reporter, will take place at the Arlington Theatre on Thursday, January 24, 2013, with director and cast expected to attend.
On Closing Night, SBIFF proudly presents the U.S. Premiere of Wasteland, written and directed by Rowan Athale, marking his feature directing debut, and starring Matthew Lewis, Timothy Spall and Iwan Rheon.  In this exhilarating heist thriller, a young ex-con hooks up with his best mates to embark on a wild — and risky — revenge scheme after being framed by a local drug kingpin.  Closing night, sponsored by The Santa Barbara Independent, will take place at the Arlington Theatre on Sunday, February 3, with director and cast expected to attend.

INTERNATIONAL GALA
SBIFF will present an International Gala Screening of Pablo Larraín’s film, “No,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal.   The film, which is about an ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile’s 1988 referendum, was a favorite at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and winner of their Art Cinema Award.  Director Pablo Larraín and Gael Garcia Bernal will attend.

2013 VIRTUOSOS AWARD
SBIFF continues its tradition of honoring the year’s standout performers with The 2013 Virtuosos Award.  The actors who were selected to be recognized for their exceptional performances are:  Ann Dowd for her layered and subtle performance as Sandra, a fast-food restaurant manager who allows terrible things to happen to an employee in Compliance, Elle Fanning for bringing intense emotion to the screen as Ginger, a teenager living in London during the Cuban Missile Crisis in Ginger & Rosa, Ezra Miller for his role as the vivacious Patrick, a high school student struggling with being gay in The Perks of Being A Wallflower), Eddie Redmayne for his powerful and emotional portrayal of the love-stricken Marius in Les Miserables, Omar Sy for mastering honesty and humor as Driss, an excon who develops an unlikely friendship in The Intouchables and Quvenzhané Wallis who at such a young age, astonishes with her performance as the brave little girl, Hushpuppy, in Beasts of the Southern Wild.
“The Virtuosos Award is about taking notice of a performance that is extraordinary,” Comments Durling.  “The Virtuosos Award is all about performances that caused us to take notice and this year’s honorees have left an indelible impression on us all.”
The Virtuosos Award was created to recognize a select group of actors who have distinguished themselves through performances in film this past year.  Last year’s recipients for this award were Demián Bichir, Rooney Mara, Melissa McCarthy, Patton Oswalt, Andy Serkis and Shailene Woodley.
The Award presentation, moderated by Fandango’s Dave Karger, and will take place at the Lobero Theatre on Tuesday, January 29, 2013.

THE TRIBUTES
SBIFF has become an important showcase for Academy-Award® frontrunners, many of whom have arrived as nominees and gone on to win the Oscar.   The 28^th Santa Barbara International Film Festival proudly celebrates some of the year’s finest work in film.  The complete list of 2013 Honorees (in date order) is as follows:

• Ben Affleck will receive the esteemed Modern Master Award, Presented by lynda.com, moderated by longtime SBIFF friend and film historian Leonard Maltin on Friday, January 25 at the Arlington Theatre.
• Daniel Day-Lewis will receive the Montecito Award, moderated by Hollywood Reporter columnist Scott Feinberg on Saturday, January 26 at the Arlington Theatre.  Sponsored by Bridlewood Estate Winery.
• 2013 Virtuosos Award, presented to Ann Dowd (Compliance), Elle Fanning (Ginger & Rosa), Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being A Wallflower), Eddie Redmayne (Les Miserables), Omar Sy (The Intouchables) and Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), in recognition of the year’s emerging film artists.  The evening will be moderated by Dave Karger, Chief Correspondent at Fandango and host of “The Frontrunners” on http://Fandango.com, on Tuesday, January 29 at the Lobero Theatre.
• Amy Adams will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award on Thursday, January 31 at the Arlington Theatre.
• Leonardo DiCaprio will receive the American Riviera Award on Friday, February 1, moderated by longtime friend and Awards strategist at Deadline, Pete Hammond at the Arlington Theatre.
• Jennifer Lawrence will receive the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award, moderated by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling on Saturday, February 2 at the Arlington Theatre.  Sponsored by UGG® Australia.

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