September 28, 2020
A TRIBUTE TO KIRBY DICK
DescriptionDescription Watch ON THE RECORD before A TRIBUTE TO KIRBY DICK, beginning October 18,12:00 p.m. PDT Kirby Dick (AFI Conservatory Class of 1983) is a two-time Academy Award® nominated and Emmy® award-winning investigative filmmaker behind some of the most groundbreaking documentaries today with his creative partner Amy Ziering. His most recent projects directly impacted American...
September 28, 2020
JUMBO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a discussion of the film JUMBO with filmmaker Zoe Wittock and actress Noémie Merlant. Forbidden love is not a new theme to cinema. But Jeanne's love is like no other. When the new amusement park “attraction,” The Move It, arrives at the local carnival...
September 28, 2020
JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T.
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Following the film, film scholar and Cinema's Legacy guest curator Racquel Gates leads a conversation with Michael B. Gillespie, Hannah Giorgis and Terri Francis. Chantal is confident, thoughtful and driven. Her working class Brooklyn family lives paycheck-to-paycheck, so she puts in hours at an upper-class grocery store to help out. For 17-year-old Chantal, who...
September 28, 2020
INDIE CONTENDERS
DescriptionDescription Presented by The Hollywood Reporter and moderated by columnist and blogger Scott Feinberg, this annual panel favorite features a 90-minute discussion with major talent from the AFI FEST 2020 lineup and recent releases. Panelists include: Riz Ahmed (SOUND OF METAL), Rachel Brosnahan (I’M YOUR WOMAN), Winston Duke (NINE DAYS), Julia Garner (THE ASSISTANT), Vanessa...
September 28, 2020
JACINTA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a discussion with director Jessica Earnshaw. Jessica Earnshaw’s debut film is penetratingly intimate. The camera follows Jacinta, mid-twenties, even at her lowest. We are there with her while she’s incarcerated with her mother, when in the sober house, and in the car driving...
September 28, 2020
THE INTRUDER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription USA Premiere Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Natalia Meta and actor Érica Rivas. A would-be relaxing holiday for overworked voice actor Inés is cut short by an unexpected horror. As she attempts to readjust to her former routine, her sense of reality becomes increasingly precarious....
September 28, 2020
INDUSTRY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription North America Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmakers Mickey Down, Konrad Kay and David P. Davis and actors Myha'la Herrold and Marisa Abela. In the latest series from HBO, an ambitious group of graduates compete for a permanent role at Piedmont, a top London...
September 28, 2020
IN SUDDEN DARKNESS
DescriptionBioContactDescription Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). A slice of life film set in the Bronx, New York. A working-class family tries to stay afloat...
September 28, 2020
I CARRY YOU WITH ME
DescriptionBiosDescription Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Heidi Ewing and actor Armando Espitia. Realism and romanticism come together artfully in this poignant, decades-long story. Ivan (Armando Espitia) and Gerardo (Christian Vazquez) fall in love and must face homophobia, racism and injustice, while weathering the perils of undocumented...
September 28, 2020
HEADING SOUTH (雁南飞)
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). Eight-year-old Chasuna travels from her home on the grasslands to visit her father in the big city. At...
