August 20, 2025
THE WOMAN KING (2022) – AFI Movie Club
Featuring two recipients of the AFI Honorary Degree – director Gina Prince-Bythewood and star Viola Davis – and shot by AFI Alum Polly Morgan (AFI Class of 2010), THE WOMAN KING (2022) was honored in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the most outstanding achievements in the...
January 29, 2021
AFI Movie Club: DETROIT
In 2017, AFI Honorary Degree recipient Kathryn Bigelow brought the poignant film DETROIT to audiences, basing the film on true events of racial tensions and civil unrest that start to fracture the city of Detroit. MOVIE TRIVIA DID YOU KNOW? DETROIT is based on true events – the Detroit riots of the long, hot summer of 1967, 50 years before Kathryn...
September 12, 2020
AFI Movie Club: STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
Expanding on a cinematic legacy from the mind of AFI Life Achievement Award recipient George Lucas, STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS features the talents of Life Achievement Award honorees Harrison Ford and John Williams, as well as AFI Honorary Degree recipient Lawrence Kasdan and AFI Board of Trustees Chair Kathleen Kennedy. Click Here to Find…
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