DIA DE LAS CARPAS

DescriptionTrailerDescription A group of boys help an undocumented girl get to the beach to reunite with her family, unaware of her magical secret that will change their lives forever. Trailer

CITIZEN PENN

DescriptionBiosContactDescription Dean of the AFI Conservatory Susan Ruskin leads a conversation between filmmaker Don Hardy and subjects Sean Penn and Ann Lee. “Humanitarian” is not necessarily the word that comes to mind in relation to the iconoclastic actor/director Sean Penn. Don Hardy’s eye-opening documentary CITIZEN PENN, however, shows that Penn, through his nonprofit Community Organized...

CHINESE WALL

DescriptionBioContactDescription 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). Fernando receives some baffling news which upsets him profoundly, but when he shares it with his loved ones, their reactions are not...

CHURCH AND THE FOURTH ESTATE

DescriptionBIOContactDescription A reporter uncovers a file that reveals a shocking series of child-abuse allegations in Idaho's Boy Scouts, which rattles the community and implicates the Mormon church. The story reveals long-running crimes that threaten to bankrupt the Boy Scouts. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 4 BIO Brian Knappenberger is an American documentary...

CLAIRE AT SEVEN MONTHS

DescriptionBioContactDescription Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE AT SEVEN MONTHS) and Bridget Moloney (BLOCKS). A pregnant woman visits her family’s beach condo in...

COLLECTIVE (COLLECTIV)

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following the film, AFI Festivals Senior Programmer Ken Jacobson leads a conversation between filmmaker Alexander Nanau and subject Cătălin Tolontan. In 2015, a fire roared through the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest, Romania, killing 27 people and leaving over 100 injured. Following the tragedy, the Romanian Health Minister declared that the burn victims would receive...

THE CHICKEN

DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription 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). On an unseasonably hot day in November, a Japanese...

BREAKING GROUND

DescriptionBioContactDescription World Premiere 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). Mistreated in...

CENTERING CHARACTERS WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS IN FILM AND TELEVISION

DescriptionDescription Before this AFI Summit session, watch PINK SKIES AHEAD, available beginning October 18, 7:00 p.m. PDT until 11:59 p.m. PDT All too often in Hollywood movies or television programs, characters with mental health conditions are portrayed disparagingly, stereotypically or erased from the screen entirely. Dr. Stacy L. Smith of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, who...

CHILD OF THE LAND (KAMA’ĀINA)

DescriptionBioDescription 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). After suffering abuse from...

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