Santa Barbara International Film Festival Videography News . . .

PRESS RELEASE - Santa Barbara County, California, USA.
You're the Star Video Productions is proud to have once again covered the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Our fourth year on the Red Carpet was as exciting as always.

This year we had the chance to speak with Oscar nominated actress Kate Winslet (Titanic, Sense And Sensibility, Quills, Holy Smoke, Finding Neverland, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, All The King's Men, The Holiday, Little Children, Revolutionary Road, and The Reader). This incredibly gifted actress has starred with such leading men as Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Hugh Grant, Kevin Spacey, Jude Law, Jim Carrey, Sean Penn, Harvey Keitel and Ralph Fiennes just to name a few. She has also worked with such incredible directors as James Cameron, Kenneth Branagh, Jane Campion and husband Sam Mendes. This year The Santa Barbara International Film Festival honored Kate with The Montecito Award.

To view a portion of the red carpet and award ceremony go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fArIjAwS6bw

This year the SBIFF also honored actress Penelope Cruz (Vanilla Sky, Blow, Elegy, and Vickie Christina Barcelona) with the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award. Penelope Cruz is also nominated this year for an Oscar for her role in the hit Woody Allen film Vickie Christine Barcelona also starring Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem. We had a chance to speak with Penelope on the red carpet.

To view a clip and portion of the award ceremony go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUbdExRZZMY

Also receiving top honors this year was acclaimed Oscar winning actor/director Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry, Fist Full Of Dollars, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Unforgiven, The Bridges Of Madison County, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Letters From Iwo Jima, Changeling and Gran Torino). Clint Eastwood received the SBIFF Modern Master Award. We also filmed Sean Penn (Milk, Dead Man Walking, Mystic River, The Game, I Am Sam, All The King's Men  ) shown to the right with Clint Eastwood.

Other actors we filmed this year included Taraji P. Hensen (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Josh Brolin (W, No Country For Old men, Milk), James Cromwell (Babe, The Queen, Becoming Jane, Spiderman 3, L A Confidential), Jake Gyllenhall (Zodiac, Brokeback Mountain, Jarhead), Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, Seabiscuit, Iron Man), Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Valkyrie), Rodrigo Santoro (Love Actually, Che), Tim Matheson (Animal House, The West Wing, Entourage) and Gary Anthony Williams (Boston Legal).

In past years of The Santa Barbara International Film Festival we have had the pleasure to interview and/or film Vice President Al Gore, Brad Pitt (Thelma & Louis, A River Runs Through It, Legends of the Fall, Se7en, The Devil's Own, Twelve Monkeys, Meet Joe Black, Fight Club, Ocean's Eleven, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Burn After Reading, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, The Good Sheperd, A Mighty Heart, Changeling, Wanted), Noah Wyle and James Cameron to name a few.

To view a montage clip from several red carpets go to our webite at http://www.seeyourmemories.com/wedding_videos.htm