Sunday October 26

AFI Festival News Update

Sunday October 26 the film festival hit the highway full speed with movies and events happening all over Los Angeles. Third Street Promenade was the site for a panel discussion called NOTES ON FILM, produced by AFI Fest's Jeff Eagle. Hear Music played host to a crowded audience as Moderator Chris Douridas, KCRW's music director, lead the discussion between the panelists: Harlan Goodman, senior VP of music, Paramount Studios; Johnathan McHugh, VP soundtrack marketing, New Line Cinema; Stewart Copeland, composer and drummer for the Police; and Randal Poster, music supervisor, answered questions on a variety of subjects such as how the music is married to a film and what it takes to get it there. Then if you got into your car and raced across town to the Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood you could have made it to another excellent special presentation called FEATS OF CLAY. Executive Producer Chris Padilla of Sojourn Pictures in Laguna Beach brought together an astounding compilation of animated movies. Among them were works projects by Frances Ford Coppola, Tim Burton, Will Vinton, Joan Gratz, Art Clokey, Jan Svankmajer, Nick Park, Nick Donkin, and Bruce Pickford. Painstaking hours, sometimes years, were put into the making of these movies that played for a total of an hour and a half. Out in the lobby there were T-shirts for sale that were died in clay pools in Hawaii. At the Laemmle's Theater at 6:00pm, actress Samantha Mathis hung around after her movie SWEET JANE to talk about her role. —Festival Reporter, Alec Schechter

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