Santa Barbara International Film Festival

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American Fiction - SBIFF Film

Thursday, February 15, 2024, 02:00pm

Seating is first-come first-served following passholders.

Courtesy of Orion Pictures

AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Directed by Cord Jefferson
Written by Cord Jefferson
Starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown.
1h 57m

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Free Event

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