October 21, 2016
JACKIE to Screen at AFI FEST 2016
Fox Searchlight's JACKIE, directed by Pablo Larraín, will screen as a Centerpiece Gala at AFI FEST 2016 presented by Audi. Starring Academy Award® winner Natalie Portman, the film will screen on Monday, November 14, at the TCL Chinese Theatre. JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments...
October 20, 2016
LA LA LAND to Screen at AFI FEST 2016
LA LA LAND will screen as a Centerpiece Gala at AFI FEST 2016 presented by Audi. The film — from Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment label — is directed by Academy Award® nominee Damien Chazelle and stars Academy Award® nominees Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. It will screen on Tuesday, November 15, at the TCL Chinese Theatre....
September 22, 2016
Win a Pair of Passes to AFI FEST 2016
Look up, Los Angeles! Street pole banners for AFI FEST 2016 presented by Audi are now hanging high above neighborhoods throughout the city. There are three versions of the banners, each focusing on a different pioneering Hollywood legend. To celebrate these new street banners, we're giving away a pair of Express Passes to this year's festival. Here's how you can win...
June 30, 2016
Stream These 10 AFI FEST Short Films
In anticipation of the final submissions deadline next week (July 15), AFI FEST showcases some of the short films that have screened at the festival in previous years. These shorts range from narrative to documentary to animation and even border on experimental. The AFI FEST programming team loves to champion shorts that are a little on...
October 19, 2015
Two More Galas and Seven Special Screenings Added to AFI FEST 2015
Two more Centerpiece Galas will screen at AFI FEST 2015 presented by Audi. WHERE TO INVADE NEXT, directed by Michael Moore, will screen on Saturday, November 7 at the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian. THE 33, directed by Patricia Riggen and starring Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips,...
September 29, 2015
CONCUSSION To Have Its World Premiere At AFI FEST 2015
Another announced AFI FEST presented by Audi film, another world premiere. Sony Pictures' CONCUSSION — starring two-time Academy Award® nominee Will Smith, written and directed by Peter Landesman, and produced by Ridley Scott, Giannina Scott, David Wolthoff, Larry Shuman and Elizabeth Cantillon — will make its global debut and also be a Centerpiece Gala of AFI...
September 22, 2015
World Premiere of THE BIG SHORT To Close AFI FEST 2015
AFI FEST 2015 presented by Audi is bringing another world premiere to this year's festival...and it's a "big" one. The Paramount Pictures and Regency Enterprises film THE BIG SHORT will be the Closing Night film of AFI FEST on Thursday, November 12 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Directed by Adam McKay with a screenplay by...
July 8, 2014
AFI FEST Shorts Present Bold Visions With Brief Runtimes
An annual celebration of world cinema, AFI FEST presented by Audi serves as a showcase for both established auteurs and new voices – with the latter represented nowhere better than in the festival’s various Shorts programs. These capsule narratives capture the diverse perspectives of their respective makers, giving life to tales that span the spectrum...
July 5, 2014
The AFI FEST Interview: Nick Broomfield Talks TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER
In TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, filmmaker Nick Broomfield (AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER, KURT & COURTNEY) takes an in-depth look at the Grim Sleeper, a notorious serial killer who terrorized South Central Los Angeles for over 20 years. With the over 100 young women estimated to be victims of the Grim...
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