Like many of the film festivals that have decided to carry on, the AFI Film Festival will be going forward as a virtual event. The fest, which is usually held in November to help kick-off award season, will be early this year and begin on October 15th and run though the 22nd.
The 34th annual AFI Fest opens with the world premiere of "I'm Your Woman", a 1970's set crime-drama from co-writer and director, Julia Hart. Rachel Brosnahan (from the Amazon series, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") stars as a suburban housewife who enjoys a good life supplied by her husband (Bill Heck) who is involved in the criminal underworld. But after he betrays his partners, she and their baby have to go in to hiding, leading her on an unexpected and dangerous journey.
The fest will offer the usual Special Presentations, World Cinema, New Auteurs, documentaries, short films and Cinema's Legacy which focuses on the diverse and expansive history of filmmaking and this year will highlight the work of African-American filmmakers, The Hughes Brothers ("Dead Presidents"), Leslie Harris ("Just Another Girl On The I.R.T."), Mario Van Peebles ("Posse") and Cheryl Dunye ("The Watermelon Woman").
A new addition is called Meet The Shorts which is a partnership with NBC's "Meet The Press" news program. This showcase of short documentaries offers compelling stories on some of the most pressing issues facing our society today. Each shorts program will feature a Q&A moderated by an NBC News journalist.
There will be festival tributes that will celebrate the distinguished careers of writer/director, Sofia Coppola who has just recently released her latest feature, "On The Rocks" with Bill Murray and Rashida Jones; Kirby Dick, the documentary filmmaker behind the riveting films, "The Invisible War", "The Hunting Ground", "Sick" and his recent work, "On The Record" which looks at the #MeToo movement from an African-American voice and will be a free screening at the fest; starting with her debut feature, "Salaam Bombay!" in 1988, the filmmaker, Mira Nair has directed acclaimed films like "Mississippi Masala", "Monsoon Wedding" and AFI Fest will screen the world premiere of her six-hour series, "A Suitable Boy"; and EGOT winner, Rita Moreno, who began her illustrious acting career at the age of thirteen, will be next seen of the big screen with an appearance (and as an executive producer) in Steven Spielberg's remake of the musical, "West Side Story" which she won an Oscar for her role in the 1961 movie.
And the AFI Fest will close with the premiere of Academy-Award winner, Errol Morris' new documentary, "My Psychedelic Love Story". The film examines the strange, mysterious and complicated relationship between socialite, Joanna Harcourt-Smith and the high priest of LSD, Timothy Leary.
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