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The Rise of the SBIFF

Written by KEYT Assignment Desk

Story Created: Nov 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM PDT

Story Updated: Nov 16, 2011 at 10:22 AM PDT

Santa Barbara - Going to the movies. For many of us, it's an escape, a sanctuary.

For Roger Durling, it's his life.

It's been that way since he took refuge there from the heat in his homeland of Panama and a dark childhood, one that he now speaks freely about and using as motivation to maintain a preeminent Oscar film festival.

KEY News Reporter Joe Gehl has our story.
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