SBIFF Announces Award-Winning Films

Audience Choice Award is ‘26.2 to Life,’ Directed by Christine Yoo

Audience Choice Award sponsored by 'The Santa Barbara Independent': '26.2 TO LIFE' directed by Christine Yoo

By Sun Feb 19, 2023 | 12:30pm

From a slate of 200 films from 43 countries — including filmmakers from as far as Turkey, India, Israel, and Sierra Leone, half of whom were women, according to Santa Barbara International Film Festival Programming Director Claudia Puig — the following films received awards at a breakfast ceremony with Jury and Filmmakers in attendance at El Encanto, a Belmond Hotel, on February 18. 

Audience Choice Award sponsored by The Santa Barbara Independent: 26.2 TO LIFE Directed by Christine Yoo

Josef Woodard speaks at the Awards Breakfast | Credit: Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for SBIFF

Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema: I LIKE MOVIES Directed by Chandler Levack

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