May 9, 2025
QUEEN & SLIM (2019) – AFI Movie Club
Starring Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith and written by Lena Waithe from a story by Waithe and James Frey, QUEEN & SLIM (2019) is a consciousness-raising love story that confronts the staggering human toll of racism and the life-shattering price of violence – one which also marked the feature debut from director Melina Matsoukas, a...
December 8, 2022
BOYS DON’T CRY (1999) – AFI Movie Club
BOYS DON’T CRY (1999) stars Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank in a story based on the life of Brandon Teena, a transgender man from Nebraska who was murdered in 1993. Making her feature directorial debut with the film four years after making a short about the same subject, Kimberly Peirce was the keynote speaker for...
August 29, 2021
AFI Movie Club Rewind: BEATRIZ AT DINNER
This film was originally selected as an AFI Movie Club pick on September 29, 2020. BEATRIZ AT DINNER is directed by AFI Conservatory alum Miguel Arteta and stars Salma Hayek as a Mexican immigrant and healer who, when her car breaks down at the home of a wealthy client, ends up staying for dinner and engaging...
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