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AFI Fest 2021 Outlook

This week, I'll be heading (virtually) to @AFIFEST to cover all things you'd expect at a film festival. What am I covering? Read what I'll be watching below.

This week’s the week that I cover AFI Fest 2021, my second year of attending AFI Fest (albeit virtually) and I wanted to take the time before I get crazy busy with the festival to showcase what I’ll be watching. AFI Conservatory Showcases 1-3 AFI Summit Documentaries Citizen AsheThe First WaveJuice WrldSimple As WaterTo What Remains Meet The Press Film Festival Shorts 1-5 Short Film…

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AFI Fest 2021 Full Lineup Announced

#AFIFest2021, the last fall film festival of the year, will showcase over 100 tiles this November. Get the full list at the link below!

With just under a month until the festival opens, the American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, which adds Sony Picture Classic‘s Parallel Mothers, written and directed by Academy Award® winner Pedro Almodóvar, as a Red Carpet Premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Saturday, November 13th. Parallel Mothers joins Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick, tick…BOOM!,…

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TechRow Now Features Films by AFI Conservatory

David Nicksay serves as an executive product at Heliopolis Entertainment, located in Woodland Hills, California. David Nicksay maintains membership with multiple professional organizations and serves on the advisory board of the American Film Institute. A nonprofit organization committed to inspiring people through moving image features, the American Film Institute has partnered with TechRow, an online learning platform, to stream films from its AFI Conservatory. An institution of higher learning, the AFI Conservatory offers graduate students master of fine arts degrees in multiple filmmaking disciplines, and its students produce numerous films each year. Thanks to the new partnership, AFI Conservatory films such as Fido, Balloon, and Our Home Here will be available to viewers at TechRow.org for at least the 2020-2021 season. TechRow utilizes technology to provide access to education and enhance student engagement during remote-learning sessions. To facilitate its mission, it has teamed up with organizations like the Cartoon Network and The New York Times to create an immersive, classroom-based learning experience.

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AFI Taps 25 Alumnae for Fox Filmmakers Lab

Allelujah! @AmericanFilm Taps 25 Alumnae! @2othcenturyfox #FilmmakersLab #AFI

Posted by Larry Gleeson Following a rigorous selection process, AFI selected 25 alumnae from the AFI Conservatory and the AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) to advance to the next phase of the Fox Filmmakers Lab. From a previous post, the Lab is a partnership between Twentieth Century Fox Film and AFI, who will together work to increase the number of female directors working on…

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AFI Conservatory Artist-in-Residence Asghar Farhadi on THE SALESMAN, Inspired by Hitchcock and Kiarostami

Asghar Farhadi on THE SALESMAN, Inspired by Hitchcock #Iranian #auteur

Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi — this year’s Artist-in-Residence at the AFI Conservatory — returns to his neorealist roots with THE SALESMAN, the suspenseful tale of married couple of theater actors, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), starring in a performance of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” Their lives are thrown into turmoil after Rana is attacked in their Tehran…

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AFI and 20th Century Fox Strike Partnership Aimed at Female Directors

AFI and @20thCenturyFox Partner for Female Directors #AFIConservatory

Twentieth Century Fox Film and the American Film Institute have entered a new partnership to help increase the number of female directors working on major studio films. The initiative will provide alumnae of the AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) — the American Film Institute’s unique female filmmaker training program — the opportunity to direct short films based on the Studio’s…

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Taking Applications: AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women

Directing Workshop for Women - Intensive Training #AFIConservatory

The AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) is a hands-on training program committed to increasing the number of women working professionally in screen directing.

The selected participants will receive guided instruction and direct a short film or new media project. All completed projects will be showcased the following year.

DWW offers participants intensive training in narrative…

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