AFI FEST is about more than just theaters - it's a party. At the Rooftop Village, pass-holders can have a drink at the Cinema Lounge, join a rollicking party in The Loft or listen to the best emerging bands in the Music Cafe - all set against the magnificent L.A. skyline. And everybody is invited to our panel discussions - Talk/Show, and the Audi Pavilion Salons - and to the kick-off of the Video Art Program. Kids can get in on the action, too, with the Samsung Fresh Films Youth Fest, featuring the cast of Napoleon Dynamite. There's more: Superheroes in costume, the Halloween screening of PSYCHO, chances to meet your favorite filmmakers. So before and after your screenings come on up to the Rooftop Village on the 7th floor of the ArcLight parking garage and join the experience.

FREE HALLOWEEN SCREENING

Don't miss Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO one of AFI's top 'heart- pounding' movies--from AFI's 100 years... 100 Thrills--which will screen for free at 8 p.m. on Halloween night at ArcLight Cinemas in Holly- wood!

THE AUDI PAVILION SALONS

Launching this year will be the Audi Pavilion Salons - informal interviews and audience Q&As with AFI FEST filmmakers and moderated by noted journalists. Held in the comfortable, yet stylish Audi Pavilion at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 3, 4 and 10, these are intimate give-and-takes about the artistic pursuit of filmmaking - be it style in production design, cin- ematography or the written page. Filmmakers and moderators include Vilmos Zsigmond executive pro- ducer of TORN FROM THE FLAG, Robert Toth, Director of Photography on PSYCHO HILLBILLY CABIN, Anna Biller, director-actor-writer of VIVA, Mike Richards of Reelz Channel, Monica Corcoran of the LA Times and more.

SAMSUNG FRESH FILMS YOUTH FEST

Samsung Fresh Films, the nation's largest teen filmmaking program presents Samsung Fresh Films Youth Fest 2007 at AFI FEST. Youth Fest 2007 features demos and panels to celebrate and inspire tomorrow's filmmakers! It begins with "Indie Film 101" - a breakfast and discussion with Chris Gore of FilmThreat and Jeremy Coon, producer and editor of Napoleon Dynamite. Afterward, there's the interactive comedy workshop with the cast of Napoleon Dynamite, plus screenings and the 2007 Samsung Fresh Films award presentation! Don't miss this amazing event! Visit www.fresh-films.com/premiere.htm for updated information.

TALK/SHOW

One of the best ways to get close to AFI FEST's filmmakers is Talk/Show. During these free weekend discussion panels in The Loft at the Rooftop Village, noted directors, writers and producers give their two-cents about a particular topic.

Participants include documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong; actor Hector Elizondo from Closing Night Gala LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA; legendary writer, director, actor and documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog; director John Landis; writers James Ellroy and Bruce Wagner; and Paprika Steen actor and director of WITH YOUR PERMISSION.

For full Talk/Show descriptions, visit www.AFI.com/ AFIFEST or pick up a Daily News during the Festival.

12:00 p.m., November 3
From Charlie Chan to Pancho Villa: Movie Stereotypes and American Popular Culture: With Stephanie Allain, Alberto Arvelo, Andreas M. Dalsgaard, Arthur Dong, Hector Elizondo and moderated by John Horn. Presented by AFI PROJECT: 20/20

2:30 p.m., November 3
Filmanthropy: The Power of Film to Inspire American Philanthropy: With Steve Golin, Nigel Lythgoe, Kevin Wall, Crystal Chappell and moderated by Michael Guillen PhD. Presented by Philanthropy Project and followed by a reception and special announcement.

12:00 p.m., November 4 Whose Reality Is This? A conversation with Werner Herzog. Presented by SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival

12:00 p.m., November 10
From Auteurs to Collaborateurs: Is Great Filmmaking the Path of One or Many? With John Landis, Adam Rifkin, Paprika Steen, Vimos Zigmond, Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and moderated by Kevin Crust.

2:30 p.m., November 10
James Ellroy and Bruce Wagner read from their writings on film.

VIDEO ARTS SHORTS

The Video Art Shorts Program is an exciting new addition to AFI FEST. Festival-goers will experience the works of acclaimed video artists as the films are projected against the public spaces of the festival.

The films include Irish artist Clare Langan's latest exploration of man's place in nature, METAMORPHOSIS, and Nazanin Arandi's FROM HERE TO BREATH, as well as his GAZE. Robert Todd's BLISS also dives into nature, and Gorav Kalyan's AFTER THE FUNERAL gives the impressions of a widower imagining a last moment with his lost love. Daniel Zimmermann's DOWNHILL SKIING IN SUMMER will appeal to anybody who can't wait for the slopes to open.

FREEWAVES, one of L.A.'s premiere video art organizations, is a co-host of the program, which gets its start at 6 p.m., Nov.2 at the Cinema Lounge in the Rooftop Village with a live DJ. The fi rst screening is free; show your pass at the door or score a ticket from the Box Offi ce.