Santa Barbara Film Festival Women’s Panel Attracts Multiple Oscar Nominees
January 31, 2018
Santa Barbara Film Festival Women’s Panel Attracts Multiple Oscar Nominees
EXCLUSIVE: The annual and ever-popular Women’s Panel at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival will feature no less than four newly minted Academy Award nominees among the quintet who will gather for the event at the Lobero Theatre on Sunday morning at 11AM. Moderated once again by Madelyn Hammond the always hot panel should be especially pertinent this year as women’s issues in the industry have come soaring to the forefront of conversation. Participating in this year’s “Creative Forces: Women in the Business” panel will be Oscar nominated director of the Documentary Short Heroin(e) Elaine McMillion; Oscar nominated director of Negative Space Ru Kuwahata; Costume Designer of the Best Picture nominee and Golden Globe winning Lady Bird April Napier; Oscar nominated hair and makeup artist for The Darkest Hour Lucy Sibbick; and Oscar nominated Film Editor of I, Tonya Tatiana S. Riegel, the latter also winner the American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Award for that film over the weekend.
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SBIFF has become renowned for producing insightful, intelligent, and thoughtful panels that feature some of the brightest minds working in film today, many of whom are Oscar® contenders. It has been an especially strong year for women at the Academy Awards with over 40 nominated outside of the acting categories, an encouraging sign exemplified by the people on the panel this year The panelists will touch on their current projects, provide insight into the creative process, and share their thoughts on the future of filmmaking. “The SBIFF Women’s Panel will once again bring together some of the most successful working artists from all corners of film production,” said SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. “Having rose to the top in their competitive respective fields, these women continue to pave the way in a male-dominated industry and have been successful in their own right.”
The 33rd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival will take place from Wednesday, Jan. 31 through Saturday, Feb. 10. The festival previously honored Judi Dench with its Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film. The festival has also announced that it will honor Margot Robbie and Allison Janney (I, Tonya) with its Outstanding Performers of the Year Award, Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) with its American Riviera Award, Saoirse Roan (Lady Bird) with its Santa Barbara Award, Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) with its Maltin Modern Master Award, Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) with its Cinema Vanguard Award, and Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman), Hong Chau (Downsizing), John Boyega (Detroit), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), and Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name) with the Virtuosos Award. It will also honor all five Oscar nominees for Best Director with its Outstanding Directors Of The Year Award. The festival opens tonight with the World Premiere of Emilio Estevez’s the public starring Alec Baldwin, Jena Malone, Christian Slater and Taylor Schilling among its all star cast. On Thursday night the tributes begin at the Arlington Theatre with DaFoe’s which I will be hosting.