DAY ELEVEN November 13, 2005
Awards Presentation Caps Off Special AFI FEST
by Brent Simon
AFI FEST 2005 presented by Audi, Los Angeles' longest-running Festival, will cap off another successful year at ArcLight Hollywood with its Awards Presentation, sponsored by Netflix. Held tonight, Sunday, November 13, at 5:00 p.m. in the Loft at the Rooftop Village, the event will be hosted by Tom Arnold, whose THE KID AND I just yesterday saw its World Premiere at a special screening at the Festival.
AFI FEST 2005 saw a robust and diverse slate of said special screenings--including films from Roger Spottiswoode (RIPLEY UNDER GROUND), Neil Jordan (BREAKFAST ON PLUTO) and Andy Garcia, who made his feature directorial debut with THE LOST CITY. There were also a clutch of films--Stephen Frears' MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS, Laurence Dunmore's THE LIBERTINE and Michael Winterbottom's TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY--that between them racked up an astonishing 21 nominations for the 8th annual British Independent Film Awards, to be held on Wednesday, November 30, at Hammersmith Palais in London.
The Festival's overall lineup, meanwhile, also showcased 127 films from 44 different countries--including 20 World Premieres, 22 North American Premieres and 18 US Premieres--and a particularly strong non-fiction slate, which saw solid attendance throughout the week and a lot of positive buzz encircling films like Steve Anderson's FUCK, Zach Niles and Banker White's THE REFUGEE ALL STARS, Davin Anders Hutchins' THE ART OF FLIGHT, Damon Brown's BURNING MAN: BEYOND BLACK ROCK and Ari Alexander Ergis' SCREAMING MASTERPIECE. Those aforementioned five--along with seven others--make up the eligible films of the International Documentary Competition, and 12 other movies mark the International Feature Competition. Jury awards will be given for each section, along with an International Shorts Program award. Festival jurors include filmmakers Patty Jenkins, Penelope Spheeris, Quentin Lee, Fenton Bailey and Sean Welch, actress Tamlyn Tomita, directors of photography Amy Vincent and Wally Pfister and film critic Jean Oppenheimer.
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