Santa Barbara Film Fest: Will Ferrell, Kirk Douglas Award Honoree, Fêted by Kristen Wiig and Octavia Spencer

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• Ferrell shared his history with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, recalling how he attended the fest in 1997 with a straight-to-DVD film and got married at the local courthouse 24 years ago.
• Kristen Wiig praised Ferrell's latest project, the Netflix documentary 'Will & Harper,' which chronicles his cross-country road trip with longtime friend and former SNL writer Harper Steele, who recently came out to him as trans, calling it 'profound' and saying it 'will shift thinking and undoubtedly save lives'.