September 28, 2020
I’M YOUR WOMAN Encore Screening
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Before the film, Variety's Angelique Jackson leads a conversation with director/co-writer Julia Hart, producer/co-writer Jordan Horowitz, producer/actor Rachel Brosnahan and actors Marsha Stephanie Blake and Arinzé Kene. Suburban housewife Jean (Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) lives a seemingly easy life, supported by husband Eddie’s (Bill Heck) career as a thief. But when Eddie...
September 28, 2020
IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN’S NAME
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yi Tang (BLACK GOAT), Em Weinstein (IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN'S NAME), Seungee Kim (TIGER & OX), Erica Tremblay (LITTLE CHIEF), Inès Girihiwe (BREAKING GROUND), Johnson Cheng (LONELY BLUE NIGHT), Kimi Howl Lee (CHILD OF LAND). Michael, a young trans...
September 28, 2020
HOPPER/WELLES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Following the film, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski. Found in 2017 amid 1,083 reels of production footage from Orson Welles’ THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND, this monumental extended conversation between Welles and Dennis Hopper pits Classic Hollywood against New Hollywood in...
September 28, 2020
FOREVER
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription World Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE'S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch Mcglocklin (FOREVER), Jacqueline Lentzou (THE END OF SUFFERING). AI judgement causes a period of introspection....
September 28, 2020
GLOVES OFF
DescriptionBIOSContactDescription GLOVES OFF follows the story of Tiara Brown, a young police officer who forges new ways to serve her community by day, then laces up and fights to make a name for herself in the boxing ring by night. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 6 BIOS Nadine Natour was the associate...
September 28, 2020
GRAMERCY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription USA Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood (GRAMERCY), Helki Frantzen (L.A. ROLL), Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor (CORRESPONDENCIA), Santiago Barzi (CHINESE WALL). A young New Jersey native returns to his hometown where his ongoing battle with depression becomes a poetic exploration...
September 28, 2020
FURTHEST FROM
DescriptionTrailerDescription In 1999, Novato, California, Jessie is enjoying what little time she has left with her best friend, Lucas. The trailer park they live in will be forced to evacuate as a result of MTBE water contamination. Trailer
September 28, 2020
GAMES OF SURVIVAL: A CULTURE PRESERVED IN ICE
DescriptionBIOContactTrailerDescription The events at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics — like the Four Man Carry and the Knuckle Hop — won’t be familiar to most Americans in the Lower 48, but they are rooted in traditional Eskimo culture and pure Americana. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 2 BIO Armed with a master’s degree...
September 28, 2020
FIREBALL: VISITORS FROM DARKER WORLDS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following the film at 9:25p.m. PDT, neuroscientist Moran Cerf leads a conversation with filmmakers Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer. Leave it to Werner Herzog to interrupt a world-renowned planetary scientist who has just made the simple yet astonishing statement that, “We are all stardust. Every element in our body was synthesized in other stars...
September 28, 2020
THE FATHER
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Following the film, AFI FEST Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Florian Zeller and actors Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins. Living alone in London and nearing 80 years old, Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) has refused another nurse that his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) has set up for him. Exuberant and independent, Anthony has...
