DAY SEVEN  November 9, 2005
AFI FEST DAILY WRAP
compiled by Brent Simon
Writer/director Roger Donaldson's THE FASTEST INDIAN IN THE WORLD, starring Anthony Hopkins, enjoyed its US Premiere as a Centerpiece Screening at the Festival Tuesday night at the Cinerama Dome... Afterward, cast and crew partied at the Cinema Lounge, where a fleet of motorcyclists joined the festivities--appropriate given that the movie is about New Zealander Burt Munroe and his quest to set the world land-speed record in his beloved, souped-up Indian motorcycle... At the Q&A following his movie, ZOZO director Josef Fares talked about how personal the story of his film was, as well as how he sometimes feels more at home in the US than in Sweden... Following the World Premiere of FACTOR 8, director Kelly Duda brought up several activist friends and crew members, including one infected with HIV and Hepatitis C through tainted blood--the issue the documentary examines... At AFM, Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV announced the sale of all the Japanese rights for PELE FOREVER to distributor AYA Pro Co. Ltd.... At a Q&A following the US Premiere of her film, BAM BAM AND CELESTE, Margaret Cho propped DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN, noted the movie's inspiration (a gay and lesbian high school club in Louisville called "All Together Now") and joked about spinning off her character's mother into an eponymous Fox sitcom... Director Elizabeth Puccini and stars Madchen Amick, Paul Blackthorne, Alec Newman, Alice Evans and Brad Rowe will all participate in a Q&A following the World Premiere of FOUR CORNERS OF SUBURBIA at 10:00 p.m. this evening.
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