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Director Leslie Zemeckis for “GRANDE HORIZONTALES” -Santa Barbara International Film Festival -March 2022 Interview by Roxanna Bina

Premiering at the 37th Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival    From the award-winning director Leslie Zemeckis of Bound by Flesh, Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer and Behind the Burly Q comes a documentary about the lives, loves and enduring influence of the Grandes Horizontales. A never before in-depth look at the culture of the courtesan.   Why did …

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” THE HAUNTED SWORDSMAN”- Santa Barbara Film Festival 2020

When a passionate puppet animator meets Lisa Henson, daughter of legendary Jim Henson (The Muppets, Dark Crystal, Sesame Streets) you get a fantastic visionary endeavor: the short film ‘The Haunted Swordsman’ which just played at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. We sat down with director and puppet master Kevin …

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POLO: THE ART OF RIDING LIFE

In Tibetan, the name Polo means  “brave wanderer”.  The game of Polo actually came from Central Asia and it was first played in Persia (Iran) between the 6thcentury B.C. to the 1stcentury B.C. Polo was at first a training game for cavalry units, usually the king’s guard or other elite troops. From …

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I Got My Hair ‘Did’!

If you’re ever in Santa Barbara, CA , you must visit the master hair stylist Xavier Scordo at The Josè Eber Salon inside the luxurious Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel! He made my bland mommy hair into VA-VA -VA -VOOM in under an hour!  I was having one of those days …

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