AFI AWARDS 2019, celebrating the year’s most outstanding achievements in film and television, will take place Friday, January 3, 2020. Each year, the event honors 10 films and 10 TV series for their contributions to the art form. At the luncheon, AFI will present jury rationales providing artistic and cultural context for the selections. Marking the 20th chapter in the American Film Institute’s ongoing celebration of the moving image, the 2019 entries will join a notable group of previous AFI AWARDS honorees. View all past honorees here. AFI AWARDS selections are made through a jury process where AFI Trustees, scholars,…
March 28, 2019
During their recent, ongoing digitization efforts, AFI Archivists uncovered two original pencil sketches, on personal letterhead, by eight-time Oscar®-winning master costumer Edith Head. The sketches were hidden behind a reel containing an oral history of Head, who designed costumes for such true classics as ALL ABOUT EVE, VERTIGO, FUNNY FACE, REAR WINDOW, ROMAN HOLIDAY, SUNSET BOULEVARD, THE STING, SABRINA and so many more. These sketches will be framed and displayed in the AFI Library.
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March 28, 2019
The American Film Institute today received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to embark upon an unprecedented, landmark study of gender parity in the history of American film. Named for director Lloyd Bacon’s lost 1928 film, “Women They Talk About,” the initiative seeks to explore how gender parity was nearly achieved in the early decades of film — an era in which more women held positions of power than at any other time in the U.S. motion picture industry. The project will be led by the research team at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films,…
March 26, 2019
The AFI Conservatory and the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation (WJSFF) have partnered to launch the second annual Young Women in Film intensive. Beginning March 26, the eight-week filmmaking workshop will be held on the AFI Campus in Los Angeles for 45 promising high school girls from ICEF (Inner City Education Foundation) View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter High School, Immaculate Heart and Synergy Quantum Academy High School. All students will receive mentorship from a talented group of both current Fellows and working, professional alumni of the AFI Conservatory. This program is made possible in part by a grant from…
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March 4, 2019
AFI FEST 2019 presented by Audi will take place in Hollywood, CA, from November 14–21, 2019. Entries are now being accepted and filmmakers are invited to submit feature, documentary, experimental, animated and short films at AFI.com/AFIFEST or through FilmFreeway. AFI FEST will have submission deadlines — early, official and final — for fiction shorts (under 30 minutes), nonfiction shorts (under 40 minutes) and feature films. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes AFI FEST as a qualifying festival for the Live Action and Animated Short Film categories for the annual Academy Awards®. FEATURES AND SHORTS Early Deadline –…
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