Encore! Director of Programming Claudia Puig discusses with Jan Price the much anticipated 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Feb 7-17), featuring 45 world premieres, 77 US premieres, tributes, panel discussions, and free community and education programs! Claudia Puig, a nationally acclaimed film journalist, serves as the Director of Programming for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. With a prolific career, she has been a film critic on National Public Radio's "Film Week" on KPCC-FM since 2005 and spent 15 years as the lead critic at USA Today, hosting the video series "The Screening Room." Before USA Today, she was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times for 11 years, part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team for spot news reporting of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. In 2020, Puig served as Senior Programmer for the AFI Film Festival and has received awards, including the Excellence in Entertainment Journalism award from NALIP in 2020 and the Roger Ebert Award for Excellence in Film Criticism from AAFCA in 2017. Recognized for inclusivity efforts by the Los Angeles Times and Indiewire, Claudia Puig continues to contribute significantly to film journalism and cultural diversity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.