Published by South East European Film Festival

Nov 06, 2011

Southeast European Film Festival, Los Angeles (SEEfest) is a competition festival which educates about the cultural diversity of Southeast Europe and fosters cultural exchange through its annual presentations of films...

AFI FilmFestival in full swing in Los Angeles

Hello folks! I’m back from a couple trips out of town
(family stuff, without my computer) so I could not blog for a while. But now
that I’m back in town, I can catch the second half of the AFI Festival in Los
Angeles, which runs through Nov. 10. Screenings are free! – though of course
you still need a ticket, available at http://www.afi.com/AFIFEST/.

For more on AFI, check out today’s article in the LA
Times, “Finding Passion for Film,” featuring an interview with AFI Fest
Director Jacqueline Lyanga, at: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-himi-lyanga-20111106,0,5250811.story

I wondered why the AFI Film Festival is featuring so many
films that have already debuted at festivals like Cannes, Toronto or New York.
Another LA Times article on Nov. 3 answered that by quoting the festival's head of
programming, Lane Kneedler: "But ultimately we feel like if a film plays
at, say, the New York Film Festival, it's not going to affect our audience that
much. If it's a great film, why should we give up that slot for another movie
just because it hasn't played anywhere?" Read it at http://theenvelope.latimes.com/news/la-et-afi-fest-20111103,0,7170699.story.
And see you at the movies! – Deirdre