DAY TEN  November 12, 2005
AFI FEST DAILY WRAP
complied by Brent Simon
AFI FEST 2005 heads into its final weekend with a full head of steam... Directors and Festival jurors Penelope Spheeris and Patty Jenkins spoke at a DGA lunch and relayed the highs and lows of Hollywood filmmaking for women... Spheeris drew laughs when she related the story of how someone dosed her beer with ecstasy at Burning Man, and she subsequently had the revelation that she was sick of the Hollywood rat race, so she dropped out to make THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, PART III... Speaking of which, a screening of the documentary BURNING MAN: BEYOND BLACK ROCK has been added for tonight, November 12, at 10:30 p.m.--ecstasy neither provided nor condoned... AFI FEST's International Shorts Competition wrapped up Thursday night at the Mann Chinese 6, with full houses and a lively discussion with director Penny Lane about the topical film THE ABORTION DIARIES... The lovely Tilly Scott Pedersen, star of Dagur Kari's DARK HORSE, introduced the film at its afternoon screening... Bolivian director Martin Boulocq and seven other cast and crew members were onhand to unveil the World Premiere of THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MY VERY BEST YEARS... KISSED BY WINTER's US Premiere was so well received that star Annika Hallin was swarmed by an enraptured audience afterward, and spent several minutes signing autographs... At the Q&A following the screening of THE DEVIL'S MINER, co-director Kief Davidson admitted that he and his filmmaking parter Richard Ladkani, got caught up in the beliefs of his young subjects, and joined in cursing and pouring alcohol on the ground as an offering to the devil god that supposedly inhabits the Cerro Rico silver mines... ONE LOVE: THE BOB MARLEY ALL-STAR TRIBUTE screened as part of the Aquafina Pure Vision Outdoor Screening: Music Docs at Midnight series, and kept Marley fans jamming into the night... The screen for the series--which wraps up this evening, Saturday, November 12, with a midnight showing of ABBA's eponymous movie--measures at roughly 20 feet by 22 feet, and inflates in under 10 minutes.
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