Geoffrey Rush visited with us tonight straight from leaving a stage production in Australia to appear in Santa Barbara, California. Tonight he received the Montecito Award at a tribute to his body of work at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Indeed his body of work is outright impressive.
Geoffrey Rush being interviewed
Later in the evening Colin Firth whom co-stared with Geoffrey Rush in The Kings Speech came to personally award Geoffrey the Montecito Award.
Colin Firth at podium
Geoffrey Rush recieves his award
Helena Bonham Cater, Colin Firth, & Geoffrey Rush all wait to receive the ensemble award.
Helena Bonham Carter receives the Ensemble Award. She also appeared in The Kings Speech.
Geoffrey cut things so close to the bone that when he left the stage, his transportation was whisking him off to the airport to get back on a plane to make the play in Australia the following day. For being crazy and generous in what brief moments of time he offered us to stop by for a few hours here and turn back, I must admit I like that guy.
Marquee for the Arlington Theatre announcing Christopher Nolan
Tonight lynda.com was the presenting sponsor of the Modern Masters Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival to Christopher Nolan in honor his body of work in a retrospective of his filmography. Leonardo DiCaprio presented Christopher Nolan his award tonight. Christopher also talked about the upcoming Batman film with Anne Hathaway & Superman. Both films will be release in 2012. We couldn’t be more proud to get behind such a remarkable event.
Lynda.com recorded the event in it’s entirety and will be posting it online to lynda.com for all to view & share for free in the upcoming days. We will also be hosting the panel discussions online at lynda.com too being that of the directors, producers, woman’s & writers panels. What is so remarkable about these panels is that you get to see how films are made from a variety of perspectives from some of the best in the business. We also have the panels from 2010 currently on lynda.com to be viewed in their entirety. Here is a link to a earlier posting about the panels.
Christopher Nolan
Leonardo DeCaprio talks about working with Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan & Leonardo DeCaprio with the Modern Masters Award
Lynda Weinman, Christopher Nolan, Leonardo DiCaprio & Bruce Heavin
Last night James Franco was honored by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for Outstanding Performance of the Year Award for his Oscar-nominated “127 Hours”. Leonard Maltin interviewed James while going through his filmography throughout his career. At the end of the evening Seth Rogan presented James his award at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, California.
James Franco interviewed by Leonard Maltin in Santa Barbara
Seth Rogen presents James Franco his award
This year lynda.com is the major sponsor of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Writers Panel
Today was a great writers panel discussion at the Santa Barbara International Film festival as the writers made light of the creation & processes they employ to write the films we love. Anne Thompson moderated the panel consisting of Michael Arndt – Toy Story 3, Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids are Alright, Charlie Mitchell – Get Low, David Seidler – The Kings Speach, Scott Silver – The Fighter, & Aaron Sorkin.
Lynda.com recorded this event and will record all the panels to post free of charge up to lynda.com in the near future.
Lynda.com is the major sponsor of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival of 2011.
In 2010 lynda.com recorded the panel discussions at length at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival which was nothing short of pure gold. Having the directors, writers, & the women in the film business discuss their craft was one of the highlights of the film festival for me. lynda.com offers these panels to all, free without charge so that all can understand and enjoy how remarkable these talks were. Even if your not a budding film-maker to hear Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Basterds), James Cameron (Avatar), Pete Doctor (UP), along with a host of other oscar contenders is nothing short of awesome.
Writer’s Panel Trailer:
Director’s Panel Trailer:
Producer’s Panel Trailer:
Woman’s in the business Trailer:
To view all the panel discussions from the 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival in full in their entirety, please visit lynda.com.
lynda.com sponsors the Santa Barbara International Film Festival - 2011
Im proud to announce that Lynda.com is to be the main sponsor of the 26th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival from January 27th – February 6th 2011. In addition, Lynda.com will present the Modern Masters Award to Christopher Nolan. If you haven’t been to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival before, I highly suggest you consider joining us as it is an amazing annual event that I find quite enjoyable.
Bruce Heavin 
