AFI FEST 2022 Names Short Film Award Winners
This year’s grand jury prize winners are now eligible for the Academy Awards.
This year’s grand jury prize winners are now eligible for the Academy Awards.
AFI’s annual cinema celebration runs Wednesday, November 2 through Sunday, November 6 in Los Angeles.
The news comes 12 years after DuVernay’s feature directorial debut “I Will Follow” screened at the festival.
Alek Keshishian (“Madonna: Truth or Dare”) directs the Apple Original film making its world premiere November 2.
Despite some plucky returning stars, a messy plot and the continued “Glee”-ification of the animated film’s soundtrack is simply more depressing than uplifting.
“Bruised” isn’t breaking any new ground from a narrative standpoint, but it does show the strength of Halle Berry as a director.
Mahershala Ali has never played the lead role in a film before; in Benjamin Cleary’s elegiac debut, he gets to play two of them.
As previously announced, the awards-facing festival will open with the premiere of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick Tick Boom.”
AFI FEST is requiring all festival-goers who attend in-person events and/or screenings to be fully vaccinated.
Another winner, the animated Irish tale “Wolfwalkers,” is getting an Apple TV+ release.
Morris’ sensitive, bittersweet portrait of Leary ex-partner Joanna Harcourt-Smith ranks as his most satisfying movie in years.
The author and screenwriter has gotten close to the big screen many times, but she tells IndieWire that her directorial debut was worth the wait (and the worry).