Roger Durling

Roger Durling has been the executive director of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for twenty-three years. He has been teaching film studies at Santa Barbara City College for just as long. He helped edit a book on Alfonso Cuarón’s film Roma published by Assouline, and his book Cinema in Flux: A Year of Connecting Through Film—comprising film essays written during the height of COVID-19—came out in 2021. He was born and raised in Panama.