'Father' in for 'Sister' at S.B. fest

Pic shuffles with 'Analyze'

By NICK MADIGAN

A release-date shuffle between Touchstone's "The Other Sister" and the Warner Bros. pic "Analyze This" has led to a change in opening-night plans at the Santa Barbara Intl. Film Festival.

"Sister," Garry Marshall's romantic comedy with Diane Keaton and Tom Skerritt, had been skedded to open the fest on March 4, headlining a slate of 90 features and documentaries (Daily Variety, Feb. 8). Pic was set for release on March 5, the day after its bow in Santa Barbara, but Touchstone/Buena Vista execs moved the release up to Feb. 26 when they saw the March 5 date already taken by "Analyze," the Harold Ramis comedy with Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal.

Quinn opens

Instead of "Sister," the fest will open with Sony Pictures Classics' "This is My Father," directed by Paul Quinn, with his brother Aidan Quinn starring alongside James Caan and Irish newcomer Moya Farrelly. A third Quinn brother, Declan, was the director of photography.

Festival organizers also announced that world premieres at the event will include Doug Atchison's "The Pornographer"; "Suckerfish," directed by Brien Burroughs; "Roadkill," by Matthew Leutwyler; and three documentaries: "Bittersweet: Stories of Open Adoption," by Steve Garrett; Lisa Rollins' "Daddy Make Me a Star"; and "Here We Are Waiting For You," directed by Marcel Masagao.

'Marley' preem

Stefan Paul's "Bob Marley Live in Concert" and "The Tourist Trap," a French-language Equinoxe production helmed by Jean-Paul Salmone, will be among North American premieres at the fest, which wraps March 14.

The list of U.S. premieres includes "Getting Off," by Julie Lynch; "HHH -- A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-hsien," by Oliver Assayas; "The Power of Kangwon Province," by Hong Sangsoo; Jaco Van Dormael's "Spotlights on a Massacre"; and "Streetheart," a French-Canadian entry by Charles Biname.