AFI FEST 2009: Shorts...and to the point! Todd Luoto (OIL CHANGE)

AFI FEST 2009: Ten Burning Questions - Jessica Oreck (BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO)

AFI FEST 2009 Announces Full Schedule

AFI FEST 2009: Shorts…and to the point! Todd Luoto (OIL CHANGE)
Todd Luoto’s short film OIL CHANGE is one of those precise and finite works that remind me why I love film festivals. Because without film festivals, you don’t get the acerbic bordering on acrid social interplay that happens in Luoto’s version of a date from hell. You don’t get it because things called “studio notes” and “lowest common denominator” thwart this kind of film, which keeps pushing the boundaries on of common decency in a social setting – literally. And joyfully, in my mind. You also don’t get it in this case, because Luoto’s “day job” is being a programme

AFI FEST 2009: Ten Burning Questions – Jessica Oreck (BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO)
It’s a wonderful thing to begin a “journey” with a film and be taken to an unexpected place that at the least adds to the original charms and at best enhances and amplifies that initial interest point. Jessica Oreck’s BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO is a great example of this phenomenon. Yes, the exploration of the Japanese culture’s fascination with beetles and bugs that has created its own cottage industry would be fascinating enough for Oreck to focus on. But she has grander ambitions to look deeper and wider into the zen of miniatures that has long been a staple of Japanese culture and through her camera’s lens – to immerse and indulge the viewer into that world

AFI FEST 2009 Announces Full Schedule
AFI FEST 2009 PRESENTED BY AUDI ANNOUNCES THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY’S “A SINGLE MAN” AS CLOSING NIGHT GALA PRESENTATION SONY PICTURES CLASSICS’ “THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS” IS CENTERPIECE SCREENING GALA PRESENTATION PROGRAMMING INCLUDES TRIBUTES TO VIGGO MORTENSEN AND CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER

AFI FEST 2009 Announces EVERYBODY’S FINE and New Lights Competition
AFI FEST 2009 PRESENTED BY AUDI ANNOUNCES WORLD PREMIERE OF MIRAMAX FILM’S “EVERYBODY’S FINE” ROBERT DE NIRO AND KATE BECKINSALE TO ATTEND ALSO ANNOUNCED ARE FILMS SELECTED FOR FESTIVAL’S DEBUT OF NEW LIGHTS COMPETITION Los Angeles, CA, October 5, 2009—AFI FEST 2009 presente

AFI FEST 2009 Announces Halloween Movies
AFI FEST 2009 PRESENTED BY AUDI ANNOUNCES HALLOWEEN PROGRAMMING FEATURING “THE HOLE” IN 3-D, “THE LOVED ONES,” “WAKE IN FRIGHT,” “BEST WORST MOVIE” Los Angeles, CA, September 29, 2009—AFI FEST 2009 presented by Audi today announced films scheduled for Halloween, all of which celebrate the horror genre. Joe Dante’s THE HOLE, Sean Byrne’s THE LOVED ONES, Ted Kotcheff’s WAKE IN FRIGHT and Michael Stephenson’s BEST WORST MOVIE will screen on Saturday, October 31 at the Mann Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood. Presented in 3-D, Joe Dante’s family friendly thriller THE HOLE mar