{"id":2267653,"date":"2026-02-05T08:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2267653"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:44:27","slug":"international-film-festival-returns-to-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/international-film-festival-returns-to-santa-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"International film festival returns to Santa Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The buzz of Hollywood has arrived along State Street as the 41st annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival gets underway, drawing tens of thousands of movie lovers, filmmakers and celebrities to the city.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is an annual showcase of international and independent films, featuring premieres, filmmaker panels and high-profile tributes throughout downtown Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>Just across the street from one of the festival\u2019s theaters, staff at Carlito\u2019s Caf\u00e9 and Cantina say they are preparing for an influx of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople will reserve tables weeks ahead just to see the artists coming or going to the movies,\u201d said Sandra Lombardo, a hostess at the restaurant. \u201cThey really enjoy it. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things have been rough here in downtown Santa Barbara, and we\u2019re hoping this becomes a beacon, bringing a lot of customers back to savor downtown,\u201d said Roger Durling, executive director of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The festival runs through Saturday, Feb. 14.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/sbiff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n        appId : '335772034015171',\n    xfbml : true,\n    version : 'v2.9'\n    });\n    };\n    (function(d, s, id){\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n    js.async = true;\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.ksby.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buzz of Hollywood has arrived along State Street as the 41st annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival gets underway, drawing tens of thousands of movie lovers, filmmakers and celebrities to the city. The festival is an annual showcase of international and independent films, featuring premieres, filmmaker panels and high-profile tributes throughout downtown Santa Barbara. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2267654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/International-film-festival-returns-to-Santa-Barbara.com2Fc12Fcf2F2ad332e247ef8e6c240d23ba99422Fs.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267655,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267653\/revisions\/2267655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2267654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}