July 28, 2020
AFI Alums Garner 2020 Emmy Nominations
Congratulations to this year’s Emmy®-nominated AFI alumni! Today, the Television Academy announced the nominees for the 72nd Emmy® Awards. The early morning event was hosted by Leslie Jones and included presenters Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany. With these groundbreaking and critically acclaimed series, AFI alumni continue to push the boundaries of storytelling. Please…
July 17, 2020
Julie Dash on DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST and her Trailblazing Career
Julie Dash (AFI Class of 1974) is one of the most well-respected and inventive visual storytellers of her generation. After attending AFI in the mid-‘70s, she received her MFA in Film and Television Production from UCLA. She made an auspicious start with bold short films – ILLUSIONS and DIARY OF AN AFRICAN NUN – and…
July 14, 2020
Take a Virtual Tour of the AFI Conservatory
Located in the filmmaking capital of the world, the AFI Conservatory is nestled in the hills overlooking Hollywood. The picturesque eight-acre campus is in the center of the professional filmmaking community with easy access to studios, networks and post-production facilities. Due to the current pandemic, we're unable to offer in-person tours of the AFI Campus...
June 30, 2020
AFI Member Spotlight: Melinda Sue Gordon
“My job on a film set is to tell a story in a single image. It’s a moment from the script, a character study or perhaps the choreography of the cast and crew outside the frame lines. The motion picture can be viewed over and over but what happens behind the lens will be caught…
June 30, 2020
AFI Sloan Seminar: CONTAGION Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns and Epidemiologist Dr. Ian Lipkin
In June 2020, the Conservatory hosted an AFI Sloan Seminar for AFI Fellows with CONTAGION screenwriter Scott Z. Burns and CONTAGION science advisor Dr. Ian Lipkin – a renowned epidemiologist who has been called a “master virus hunter” for his speed and innovative methods of identifying new viruses. Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director…
June 19, 2020
Watch the AFI Conservatory Visual Essays Showcase
The AFI Conservatory Visual Essays Showcase celebrates three-minute shorts from the 2020 Cinematography graduates, all shot on motion picture film. The 35mm Visual Essay challenges Fellows to create a narrative through images and without dialogue. The productions feature the participation of Directing, Editing, Producing, Production Design and Screenwriting fellows, with Cinematography Fellows serving as lead...
June 11, 2020
Watch: Alejandro González Iñárritu on Filmmaking
Academy Award®-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu joined a virtual conversation to speak to AFI Fellows about his lauded career from the challenges he faced in financing BIRDMAN to the demanding rigors of filming THE REVENANT. In these exclusive videos, Iñárritu speaks on a range wide of topics, including his time as DJ. Iñárritu talks to…
June 10, 2020
AFI Alumni Win Peabody Awards
Congratulations to the AFI alumni whose projects won Peabody Awards – Miguel Arteta, Diane Becker, Michael Dinner, Susannah Grant, Anna Hauger and Christal Henry. Their projects were among 30 programs deemed the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019. Additionally, this week, DWW alumna Cicely Tyson (DWW Class of…
June 10, 2020
AFI Conservatory Films to be Featured on ShortsTV
AFI films will join the world’s largest catalog of short form video entertainment and soon be available in over 100 million households across all ShortsTV channels, including ShortsTV India and TVCortos in Latin America. The newly signed deal grants ShortsTV the rights to 100 short films from the AFI Conservatory, including the Academy Award®-winning MY…
June 4, 2020
Cinematographer Daniella Nowitz on Her Time at AFI and Filming the Award-Winning ASIA
While the feature film ASIA was not able to have its World Premiere at Tribeca as originally planned, it earned rave reviews with Variety praising cinematographer Daniella Nowitz (AFI Class of 2014) for her camerawork which made the film “quietly moving, bringing dignity and compassionate humanism.” Tribeca took notice as well, awarding Nowitz Best Cinematography…
June 2, 2020
AFI Alumni Win College TV Awards
At 40th College Television Awards, AFI projects took home two competitive awards, as well as the Loreen Arbus Focus on Disability Scholarship and the Seymour Bricker Humanitarian Award. Congratulations to all the AFI Alumni who were honored at the 40th College TV Awards! Best Drama Series BALLOON Christina Cha, Jeremy Merrifield and Dave Testa…
May 26, 2020
Watch: Kathleen Kennedy on Producing
AFI Board of Trustees Chair Kathleen Kennedy recently joined AFI Fellows for an online Harold Lloyd Master Seminar to speak about what she’s learned over the course of her career as one of the most well-respected and sought-after producers in the business. Kennedy is currently the president of Lucasfilm and co-founder of Amblin. She started…
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