Producers Panel: SBIFF2026

A behind-the-scenes look at how films get made, the Producers Panel brings together leading producers to unpack the creative, financial, and strategic decisions that shape this year’s most talked-about films at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

2025 · Directed by Josh Safdie · 2h 30m

"Marty Supreme" is a sports drama, loosely inspired by the life of table tennis champion Marty Reisman, following his journey from a hustler in Manhattan to a champion, with Timothée Chalamet in the lead role. 

2025 · Directed by Joseph Kosinski · 2h 35m

“F1: The Movie” stars Brad Pitt as a former driver who returns to Formula 1, alongside Damson Idris as his teammate at APXGP, a fictional team on the grid.

2025 · Directed by Guillermo del Toro · 2h 29m

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and

2025 · Directed by Joachim Trier · 2h 13m

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part

2025 · Directed by Chloé Zhao · 2h 5m

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

2025 · Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos · 1h 58m

Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

2025 · Directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho · 2h 41m

Amid the raucous revelry of Carnival week, a widower named Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in 1977 in Recife, Brazil, a city as vibrant as it is violent.

2025 · Directed by Clint Bentley · 1h 42m

Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century.

2025 · Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · 2h 50m

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson comes “One Battle After Another,” starring Academy Award and BAFTA winner Leonardo DiCaprio.

2025 · Directed by Ryan Coogler · 2h 17m

Michael B. Jordan plays twin brothers who return home for a fresh start—only to discover something evil has been waiting for them.

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