This morning I attended the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s directors panel. Moderated as usual by Variety‘s Peter Bart, the participants included Les Miserables helmer Tom Hooper, Silver Linings Playbook‘s David O. Russell, Wreck-It Ralph‘s Rich Moore, Beast of the Southern Wild‘s Behn Zeitlin, Searching for Sugar Man‘s Malik Bendjelloul and Brave‘s Mark Andrews. Here’s a clip of Russell responding to a slightly needling question from Bart about bipolar behavior.
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(l to r.) Peter Bart, Tom Hooper, Rich Moore, David O. Russell.
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(l. to r.) David O. Russell, Malik Bendjelloul, Mark Andrews.
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Santa Barbara Film Festival director Roger Durling, Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin.
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Malik Bendjelloul, director of Searching for Sugar Man.
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