June 19, 2020
AFI DOCS: Your Guide to Shorts Program 3
Watch the best in short nonfiction films at AFI DOCS, June 18-21. Get your ticket here. Curated from hundreds of entries, this year’s short films highlight unique voices from around the world – presented in four programs. Following the screening, watch a recorded discussion with the films’ directors. ABORTION HELPLINE, THIS IS LISA –…
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 19, 2020
AFI DOCS: Your Guide to Shorts Program 2
Watch the best in short nonfiction films at AFI DOCS, June 18-21. Get your ticket here. Curated from hundreds of entries, this year’s short films highlight unique voices from around the world – presented in four programs. Following the screening, watch a recorded discussion with the films’ directors. 8:08 HOW WE RESPOND – directed…
June 19, 2020
AFI DOCS: Your Guide to Shorts Program 4
Watch the best in short nonfiction films at AFI DOCS, June 18-21. Get your ticket here. Curated from hundreds of entries, this year’s short films highlight unique voices from around the world – presented in four programs. Following the screening, watch a recorded discussion with the films’ directors. BLACKFEET BOXING: NOT INVISIBLE, directed by Kristen Lappas…
June 19, 2020
Spotlight on AFI DOCS 2020 Official Sponsor Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is Official Sponsor of Cinema’s Legacy at AFI DOCS, a special archival/retrospective film section, which includes two public media films this year. In addition, CPB is sponsor of the Special Presentation event featuring the film PORTRAITS AND DREAMS, which has its world premiere at AFI DOCS. CPB is also…
June 19, 2020
AFI Movie Club: DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA
Directed by Academy Award®-winning actor and filmmaker Lee Grant, DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA chronicles poverty in America, from struggling farmhands to unemployed urban workers to the newly homeless. AFI DOCS honored Grant at this year’s Charles Guggenheim Symposium, which celebrates the legacy of Charles Guggenheim by recognizing a contemporary filmmaker with a profound respect…
June 18, 2020
AFI Movie Club: SISTERS OF ’77
AFI DOCS showcased SISTERS OF ’77, an Academy Award®-nominated documentary about the first-ever National Women’s Conference, as part of the Cinema’s Legacy section at AFI DOCS 2020. The landmark film combines footage of the conference with interviews with prominent activists, including Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Coretta Scott King. Watch Marisa Tomei announce…
June 17, 2020
AFI Movie Club: BOYS STATE
BOYS STATE is the Opening Night film of the 2020 AFI DOCS film festival. The award-winning documentary, directed by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, explores politics through a coming-of-age lens, and the result reveals American democracy and political division at its most hopeful and terrifying moments. Movie Trivia about BOYS STATE -DID YOU KNOW…
June 17, 2020
AFI DOCS: Michelle Ferrari on THE VOTE
“To me, it’s a rare art that can entertain and enlighten even as it informs – that can make you think differently – and festivals that showcase and promote documentaries are critical to keeping that art form alive.” -Michelle Ferrari, THE VOTE THE VOTE is having its Virtual World Premiere at AFI DOCS 2020. Two episodes…
June 17, 2020
AFI DOCS: Your Guide to Shorts Program 1
Watch the best in short nonfiction films at AFI DOCS, June 18-21. Following the program, watch a recorded discussion with directors Tal Amiran (DAFA METTI), Jesse Auritt (THE PAINT WIZZARD), Kira Dane (MIZUKO), Alison Klayman (FLOWER PUNK), Alexandra Lazarowich (LAKE) and Martyna Starosta (ELEVATOR PITCH). From Martyna Starosta about her approach to ELEVATOR PITCH: “Not...
June 16, 2020
AFI DOCS: Maria Finitzo on DILEMMA OF DESIRE
DILEMMA OF DESIRE, the latest film from two-time Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker Maria Finitzo, follows a motley crew of unstoppable women, comprised of artists, educators, scientists, strippers and sex toy designers, who have made it their mission to dismantle internalized sexism and begin to repair the dissociated relationships many women have to their own bodies. …
June 16, 2020
AFI Movie Club: WOODSTOCK
The iconic documentary, WOODSTOCK, captured the landmark Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York during the twilight of the 1960s. The film represents a pivotal convergence in music, political activism and countercultural history. Watch Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple announce today’s film. Movie Trivia about WOODSTOCK –DID YOU KNOW the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, NY, attracted…
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