September 28, 2020
WHEN THE NEWS HITS HOME: A YEAR INSIDE THE CAPITAL GAZETTE
DescriptionBioContactDescription World Premiere The 2018 shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper left five people dead, exposing not only the danger many journalists face but reminding the public of the essential role local journalism plays in communities large and small. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 1 Bio Born in Peru and raised in...
September 28, 2020
WOLFWALKERS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription USA Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation with filmmakers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart. In 17th-century Ireland, a magical friendship takes shape. Young Robyn and her wolf-hunter father, Bill, are sent from England tasked with ridding the woodland outside of town of wolves. After being told...
September 28, 2020
WHIRLYBIRD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Following the film, NBC News Correspondent & MSNBC Anchor Katy Tur leads a conversation between filmmaker Matt Yoka and subject Marika Gerrard. In the 1980s and ‘90s, Marika Gerrard and Zoey Tur (known then as Bob) flew high above sprawling Los Angeles in their news helicopter. As a married couple, they were on the...
September 28, 2020
WILDLAND
DescriptionBiosContactDescription USA Premiere Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Jeanette Nordahl and actor Sandra Guldberg Kampp . Families come in all shapes, sizes and career inclinations. After her mother dies suddenly in a car accident, introverted 17-year-old Ida (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) is welcomed with open arms by...
September 28, 2020
WITCHIN
DescriptionTrailerDescription Ridiculed in the witch world and sent to the human world to find the elusive BDE, a young witch confronts her biggest tormentor – her kind spirit. Trailer
September 28, 2020
THE WATERMELON WOMAN
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. Aspiring filmmaker and video store clerk Cheryl, self-referentially portrayed by director/writer/editor Cheryl Dunye, is embarking on a documentary project tracing the unwritten history of an unidentified Black actress spotted in...
September 28, 2020
THE VISIT
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription North America Premiere 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). After six months, Elaheh is finally allowed to visit her husband, who is a political...
September 28, 2020
VOTE NEIL
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription Neil is a first-time politician running for State House. Mike is his fiancé and campaign manager searching for purpose. An intimate portrait about politics, the Southern LGBTQ experience and one incredible love story. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 7 Bio Honora Talbott is a writer and director driven to tell stories...
September 28, 2020
VEIL
DescriptionTrailerDescription When Leila, a Muslim teenager, shows up to her senior prom in a conservative and modest dress, her beliefs, culture and sense of identity gets tested. Trailer
September 28, 2020
WANDER DARKLY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation with director Tara Miele and actor Sienna Miller. How would you regard the arc of a romance if you could revisit it? This visually stunning, moving and time-bending drama is told assuredly by director Tara Miele. The viewer is rewarded with an...
