AFI Fest
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the films that will play in the World Cinema section and the inaugural Documentary section of AFI Fest 2019.
The World Cinema section showcases the most anticipated and celebrated international films of the year and features 16 titles...
Warner Bros. Pictures’ Richard Jewell--directed and produced by AFI Life Achievement Award recipient and Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Clint Eastwood--will make its world premiere during a gala at AFI Fest 2019. Written by Academy Award nominee Billy Ray, the film stars Oscar winners...
Apple’s feature The Banker will make its world premiere as the closing night film for the AFI Fest 2019.
The festival’s closing night gala is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 21, at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre. The Banker opens in theaters on December 6, 2019, before it...
The 33rd AFI Fest will open with the world premiere of Makeready and Universal Pictures’ Queen & Slim. Directed by two-time Grammy® winner Melina Matsoukas (AFI Class of 2005) and written by Emmy® winner Lena Waithe from a story by Waithe and James Frey, the film is a consciousness-...
For director Rudy Valdez, the impact that his directing The Sentence has had on him only became fully evident long after the project was wrapped and hit the festival circuit. In some respects he didn’t have the luxury of being impacted during the nearly 10 years he chronicled the...
AFI Fest has unveiled the films that received this year’s Jury and Audience Awards. Included in the mix were director John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm which won the Feature Audience Award, and director Katrelle Kindred’s War Paint which earned Grand Jury Award distinction...
The directors behind four of this year’s entrants in the running for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar shared insights into their creative inspirations and key collaborators during a session at the week-long AFI Fest which wraps today (11/15) in Hollywood.
Titled “The Language of...
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the films that will play in the Special Screenings, Cinema’s Legacy and Midnight sections at AFI Fest 2018.
This year’s Special Screenings section showcases some of the most highly anticipated films and episodic series of the season....
The American Film Institute (AFI) unveiled the films that will play in the World Cinema section of AFI Fest 2018.
The World Cinema section showcases the most celebrated international films of the year and features 28 titles from 27 countries. The section includes seven official Best...
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the full lineup of Galas that will screen at AFI Fest 2018. The titles screening are: the world premiere of Bird Box (director Susanne Bier) on Monday, November 12; the world premiere of the episodic series The Kominsky Method (...