The 35th Santa Barbara Film Festival posters are up in Santa Barbara! Thank you to Barbara Boros for her thoughtful beautiful work in designing this year’s symbolic poster of Santa Barbara’s Chromatic Gate and for allowing this post to include her artwork.

Over the last 34 years, the Festival has become one of the leading Film Festivals in the United States attracting 95,000 attendees and offering 11 days of 200+films, tributes, and panels fulfilling its mission to engage, enrich, and inspire people through the power of film. This year’s Film Festival will take place from January 15, 2020, to January 25, 2020.

This year’s festival includes Brad Pitt who will receive the Maltin Modern Master Award (Sold Out). Laura Dern will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award. Rene’e Zellweger the American Riviera Award. Lupita NYong’o the Montecito Award, and Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson will receive the Outstanding Performers of the Year Award (Sold Out). How’s that for a lineup?

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival celebrates the art of cinema and provides impactful educational experiences for our local, national, and global communities.