April 20, 2026
How to Break Into Production Design at AFI
Production design is one of the most powerful yet often overlooked elements of filmmaking. Every set, color palette, texture and visual detail you see on screen is carefully crafted to support the story. At its core, production design is about visual storytelling, communication and world-building. At the AFI Conservatory film school, production designers are trained to shape the look and feel...
July 17, 2015
The AFI DOCS Interview: FRESH DRESSED’s Sacha Jenkins
In the AFI DOCS film FRESH DRESSED, filmmaker Sacha Jenkins offers a fun and colorful history lesson in hip-hop fashion through the decades. The fashion trends which were initially born out of a mix of ingenuity, creativity and swagger soon found their way onto high-fashion runways and into suburban closets in middle America. The film...
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