I was unable to attend the Goldfish screening in the Santa Barbara Film Festival earlier this month because my kid got sick. So instead of partying with Angelina Jolie, I got to have Lucas spit phlegm on me. But he is better now and I have showered, so we are all good. I did get up to Santa Barbara a bit earlier in the week with my mom and saw some stuff, most notably the Russian film "Mongol." A beautifully made film about Genghis Khan. Who I always thought was a bad guy. And he kind of is, it's complicated, but they made a movie so at lease you don't have to spend time trying to read about it. Anyway, cool movie about a guy taking over the world - what more could you want.

Hope everyone had a great holiday! Found out over the break that Goldfish has been selected for The Santa Barbara International Film Festival! It will be in the family shorts section, don't have the exact time yet.

Looks like Angelina Jolie, Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, and others will be there getting special awards. Which goes to show, everyone likes to vacation in Santa Barbara. This should be a lot of fun, I'm planning on going for a couple days.

Thanks to the award in Austin, Goldfish has been invited to these cool festivals in February:

Oxford Film Festival: The festival runs from Feb. 7 - Feb. 10. Goldfish plays at the Malco Oxford Studio Cinema, Screen 1, on Saturday, 2/9 at 11:45a.

Omaha Film Festival: The festival runs Feb. 16-24. Don't have the exact time yet....