Kirk Douglas is Proud of and Reflects on Katherine Zeta-Jones EXCLUSIVE VIDEO Video

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO Kirk Douglas Reflects on Katherine Zeta-Jones on Red Carpet at Kirk Douglas SBIFF Awards QUENTIN TARANTINO Inglourious Basterds Director Honored RED CARPET SANTA BARBARA QUENTIN TARANTINO AWARDED KIRK DOUGLAS SBIFF BREAKING NEWS VIDEO PRODUCED BY CLIFF BALDRIDGE PRODUCER YOUTUBE PARTNER SANTA BARBARA ARTS TV QUENTIN TARANTINO RECEIVES SBIFFS KIRK DOUGLAS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM Esteemed director, writer, actor Quentin Tarantino and the legendary Kirk Douglas will be joined by Diane Kruger, producer Lawrence Bender and friends of the festival including Joshua Jackson, Samm Levine (Inglourious Basterds) and more for the BLACK-TIE celebration of the Santa Barbara International Film Festivals KIRK DOUGLAS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM honoring QUENTIN TARANTINO Thursday, October 22 5:00 p.m. PRESS CHECK-IN 6:00 p.m. COCKTAIL RECEPTION 7:30 p.m. DINNER/PROGRAM WHERE: Biltmore Four Seasons Hotel, Santa Barbara Coral Casino Ballroom The awards namesake, Kirk Douglas, will present the award to Tarantino, one of the most celebrated filmmakers of his generation. Since his writing/directing debut with the critically acclaimed Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino went on to receive an Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award for his groundbreaking original screenplay, Pulp Fiction. He has since created such works as the screenplay for Oliver Stones Natural Born Killers (1994); directed the fourth segment of the film Four Rooms; wrote and directed Jackie Brown (1997); wrote and directed Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (2004); in 2005 he was credited as special guest director with Robert Rodriguez and writer-director Frank Miller of Sin City, and teamed up again with Robert Rodriguez to direct Grindhouse (2007). His recent feature film, Inglourious Basterds, is the World War II epic which he wrote and directed and stars Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. Employing pulp and propaganda in equal measure, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds weaves together the infamous, oppressed, real and larger-than-life stories of WWII. The 25th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, set to run February 4 through February 14, 2010, is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching local culture and raising consciousness of film as an art form For ticket information, contact the SBIFF office, 805-963-0023 or visit www.sbfilmfestival.org.