Santa Barbara International Film Festival Inc

The organization operates a year round arthouse theatre. Its programming includes daily showings of current and critically acclaimed independent and international films, week long festivals, includingfrench films and social justice films, retrospectives and a membership based cinema society.

The organization operates the barbakow family center for film studies that serves as a classroom, screening room, community meeting space, movie library and editing suite. Its programming includes education programs that reach over 14,000 people each year including at-risk and under-served youth, low-income families and their children, and transit-dependent senior citizens. All current programs are at no charge to its participants.