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Santa Fe New Mexican - Film festival showcases Indigenous, independent talent
Santa Fe is known as a place that celebrates Indigenous creativity — and for the next few days, filmmaking and filmmakers will be in the spotlight.
The 15th year of the Santa Fe International Film Festival features a record number of Native writers, directors and producers. The festival opened Wednesday and runs through Sunday, with an impressive lineup of movies and short films. It’s quite a way to mark 15 years of this exceptional festival, named once again to the MovieMaker’s coveted list, 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee.
Pasatiempo - Filmmaker spotlight: Tomás Gómez Bustillo
The village of Antonio Carboni (population 296), named after a former landowner, sits on flatlands southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a few hours by car from La Pampa province where bulls still graze on vast grasslands. This village of dirt roads flanked by foxtails comprises a few dozen flat brick buildings and casitas, coconut trees that stick out from behind weeping Tipuana tipu trees and jacarandas, a once elegant train station (no longer in use), and a church famous for the mechanism of its clock that came all the way from Paris after the Great War. In other words, it’s a perfect film set.
Writer-director Tomás Gómez Bustillo knew Antonio Carboni and its residents well, even before he began shooting there for his first feature film, Chronicles of a Wandering Saint (Crónicas de una santa errante) — a surrealistic comedy competing at the Santa Fe International Film Festival.
Albuquerque Journal - Celebrating a milestone: Santa Fe International Film Festival brings world-class film, NM-filmed flicks to the screen
Fifteen years.
This is the milestone the Santa Fe International Film Festival is marking this year.
The festival runs Wednesday, Oct. 18, through Sunday, Oct. 22, in Santa Fe.
Liesette Bailey, SFiFF executive director, is excited to mark the 15th anniversary of the festival.
Pasatiempo — SFiFF Red carpet roundup
Roll out the red carpet: The 15th Santa Fe International Film Festival is finally here. The festival, starting Wednesday, October 18, and running through October 22, will showcase a panoply of short and long films and documentaries from here and all over the world. The SFiFF offers a rare occasion to see films you may not have access to otherwise and to attend world and national premieres — and possibly even see (and meet) famous and up-and-coming filmmakers whose work is already making waves.
Albuquerque Journal - Santa Fe International Film Festival makes MovieMaker list of ’50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee’
MovieMaker Magazine says welcome back.
The trade magazine named the Santa Fe International Film Festival to its annual “50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” list.
The Santa Fe-based festival was on the list from 2014-2020 and returns to the coveted list. It is also the lone New Mexico festival on the list.
“A designation like this is really powerful,” said Jacques Paisner, SFiFF artistic director. “It helps us work to get tourists here for the festival. It also gets the word out to filmmakers about the festival being one of the best.”
Santa Fe New Mexican - Award deems SFiFF worth the film festival entry fee
MovieMaker magazine’s love affair with Santa Fe continues.
The publication on Monday named the Santa Fe International Film Festival as one of “50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2023.”
MovieMaker in February named Santa Fe as the No. 1 small city for a moviemaker to live and work after editor-in-chief Tim Molloy made his first visit to the area last summer and evidently enjoyed the vibrant filmmaking scene in the City Different.
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