As AFI Fest has become the dominant film festival in Los Angeles, this year's edition features world premieres from Clint Eastwood, Melina Matsoukas and George Nolfi, alongside tributes to Martin Scorsese and Peter Morgan.
, the annual AFI Fest has officially taken over as Los Angeles’ dominant local festival. But at a time when the international film festival circuit has been in a state of flux — including leadership changes at Sundance, Toronto and New York — AFI Fest has undergone a few changes of its own.
“There were a couple of reasons [for the change]. One, the mechanism for getting a free ticket was cumbersome and not customer-friendly,” Lumpkin said. “And we had to overbook to ensure a full house. And so there was this increased risk of going to Hollywood and Highland, parking and then not being sure you’re going to get in. I also think that we were missing a certain segment of moviegoers by having this cumbersome system between them and watching a great movie.
Matsoukas, who makes her feature directing debut with “Queen & Slim,” is a graduate of AFI who earlier this year received the Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medallion. She previously had a successful career directing commercials and music videos, including Beyoncé’s “Formation,” and episodes of the comedy series “Master of None” and “Insecure.”
“It means that AFI really is inclusive, that they want to promote diverse voices, they want to promote challenging the status quo and the ideas of what we’ve traditionally seen as acceptable in Hollywood,” Matsoukas said. “They’re not willing to continue down the very ostracizing and diminishing path that Hollywood has taken thus far when it comes to filmmakers of color and female filmmakers and people who are different ... I can’t imagine, honestly, having opened any other film festival.
A tribute to filmmaker Alan J. Pakula will include a screening of the new documentary “Alan Pakula: Going for Truth,” along with free screenings of three of his films, “Klute,” “Sophie’s Choice” and “The Sterile Cuckoo.”The lineup of special screenings at this year’s festival includes Mati Diop’s “Atlantics,” which won the grand prix at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and was acquired for release by Netflix.
“Apple’s a really exciting new entry into this space and I’m very happy that they felt that the movie wanted a pretty significant theatrical release and connecting it to a festival,” said Nolfi. “As a filmmaker, you obviously want to have the ability for your films to be seen on the largest screen possible. And Apple seems intent on that as well, and having it shown in the Chinese Theatre is about as large a screen as you can get these days.
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