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AFI FEST 2025 PRESENTED BY CANVA ANNOUNCES SPONSORS AND PARTNERS FESTIVAL TO PRESENT OVER 160 FILMS
OPENS ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22
Tickets and Passes Accessible On-line and on the AFI FEST Field Workplace Throughout Competition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Los Angeles, CA, October 20, 2025 — The American Movie Institute (AFI) introduced at present the sponsors and companions for AFI FEST 2025 introduced by Canva. This yr’s pageant runs from Wednesday, October 22 by Sunday, October 26 in Hollywood and the pageant line-up consists of 7 Crimson Carpet Premieres, 12 Particular Screenings, 14 Luminaries picks, 15 Discovery movies, 20 World Cinema picks, 15 Documentaries, 6 After Darkish titles, 44 movies within the Brief Movie Competitors, and 23 movies from the AFI Conservatory Showcase. There are 5 World Premieres, 5 North American Premieres and 5 U.S. Premieres.
Passes and tickets can be found at FEST.AFI.com and on the AFI FEST Field Workplace situated contained in the TCL Chinese language 6 Theatres Foyer throughout the pageant. Bought-out screenings, together with Crimson Carpet Premieres, can have a rush line.
“The worlds of artwork and leisure are reliant on the assist of those that consider, as AFI does, that movie and festivals encourage a communal connection at a time we’d like them most,” mentioned Bob Gazzale, AFI President & CEO. “We’re deeply grateful for the crucial assist of our sponsors that guarantee AFI FEST will raise the spirits of the tens of hundreds of movie lovers who’re a part of the AFI group.”
Canva returns as this yr’s Presenting Sponsor for AFI FEST 2025 introduced by Canva. The pageant is proud to welcome an distinctive roster of Company Companions, together with Official Water Companion FIJI Water, Premium Sponsor Apple Unique Movies, Northern Belief, AMC Networks, AT&T, Amazon MGM Studios, Netflix, and IMDbPro.
AFI FEST is delighted to welcome again AT&T, IMDbPro, Dell Applied sciences, and Stella Artois. The pageant can be excited to welcome new sponsors Northern Belief, HitsBev, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Inglenook Wines.
AT&T returns with UNTOLD STORIES, its $1.2 million manufacturing grant program. Instantly following the screening of HONEYJOON—a profitable undertaking from this system—AT&T will host a dialogue and invite filmmakers within the viewers to submit purposes for this prestigious grant alternative.
IMDbPro returns as an AFI FEST sponsor and can host a portrait studio on the invite-only AFI FEST Filmmaker Get together, empowering IMDbPro members in attendance with a complimentary skilled headshot to reinforce their business presence. IMDbPro Premium members can add these and different photographs to their IMDb and IMDbPro identify pages and choose their major and featured photographs as a part of a set of instruments to handle and showcase their IMDb profile.
Constructing on final yr’s profitable workshop, Canva is internet hosting Design With out Limits: Panel and Workshop with Patty Jenkins and William Means on October 25 at 10:30am. AFI Alumni and collaborators on JUNKIE—screening on the Competition, October 26—director/screenwriter/producer William Means and govt producer Patty Jenkins will share their artistic course of and imaginative and prescient, from preliminary idea to last reduce.
FIJI Water, the No. 1 premium imported bottled water within the U.S., proudly returns because the Official Water of AFI FEST. FIJI Water will as soon as once more seem in any respect crimson carpet premieres with its signature FIJI Water Bar, and all through the pageant, offering 500 mL bottles constituted of 100% recycled plastic (rPET) to maintain attendees refreshed as they rejoice one other yr of remarkable achievements in movie.
Northern Belief is the sponsor of the Crimson Carpet Premiere screening of JAY KELLY on October 23. AMC Networks is as soon as once more presenting the AFI Conservatory Showcase, scheduled for October 23-24.
This yr’s In-Variety Sponsors embrace Panavision, Illuminar, Eventive, Ovation Hollywood, TCL Chinese language Theatres, US Blanks, Cinegear and SirReel.
The Envelope by The Los Angeles Occasions is again because the pageant’s Main Media Companion and the Crimson Carpet Premieres Media Companion.
The Wall Road Journal, Selection, The Hollywood Reporter and ABC7 On the Crimson Carpet are Official Media Companions.
Affiliate Media Companions embrace TheWrap, IndieWire, Display Worldwide, Los Angeles Journal and KCRW.
The Official Media Companions and Affiliate Media Companions will every be presenting a devoted Particular Screening. The Wall Road Journal will current RENTAL FAMILY, Selection will current BUGONIA, The Hollywood Reporter will current TRAIN DREAMS, ABC7 On the Crimson Carpet will current IS THIS THING ON?, TheWrap will current REBUILDING, IndieWire will current THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, Display Worldwide will current THE CHORAL and Los Angeles Journal will current MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.
This yr’s Cultural Supporters embrace the European Languages and Films in America (ELMA), Farhang Basis, Japan Home and SAGindie.
This yr’s Neighborhood Companions are African Movie Critics Affiliation, Amoeba Music, Animation is Movie, Antigravity Academy, Armenian Movie Society, Asian American Media Alliance, ASIFA (Affiliation Worldwide of Movie Animation), BAFTA North America, Black Movie House, CalARTS, CAPE, The Cinegogue, Consulate Basic of France LA, Consulate Basic of Spain, Consulate of Belgium, Consulate of Croatia, Movie Fatales, Movie Impartial, German Movies Service, Ghetto Movie Faculty, GLAAD, Goethe Institute, GoldHouse, Hollywood Shorts, Italian Institute of Tradition LA, LALIFF(Los Angeles Latino Worldwide Movie Competition), Latino Filmmakers Community, Worldwide Documentary Affiliation, Korean Cultural Heart, LACMA, NALIP (Nationwide Affiliation of Latino Impartial Producers), New Filmmakers LA, Nimruz, Queer Movie LA, Reframe, Revival Hub, SEEfest (South East European Movie Competition), Commerce Fee of Spain LA, Tramp Stamp Grannys, Undocumented Filmmakers Collective, USC Ladies of Cinematic Arts, VC Media, We The Latin, Ladies Impartial Producers and Ladies in Movie.
As beforehand introduced, the pageant will open with SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE and can shut with the World Premiere of SONG SUNG BLUE.
JAY KELLY, NUREMBERG, DEAD MAN’S WIRE, CHRISTY and the World Premiere of THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS full the Crimson Carpet Premieres part.
To study extra about AFI FEST and to view the total pageant lineup go to FEST.AFI.com
AFI is a nonprofit, donor-powered group. Be part of AFI’s Premiere Circle to assist the American Movie Institute and luxuriate in entry to FEST passes and unique one-of-a-kind alternatives at AFI FEST. To study extra, electronic mail Development@AFI.com.
In regards to the American Movie Institute (AFI)
The American Movie Institute (AFI) is a nonprofit group with a mandate to champion the shifting picture as an artwork kind. Established in 1967, AFI launched the primary complete historical past of American movie and sparked the motion for movie preservation in the USA. In 1969, AFI opened the doorways of the AFI Conservatory, a graduate-level program to coach narrative filmmakers. The Conservatory, which counts Deniese Davis, Affonso Gonçalves, Susannah Grant, Matthew Libatique, David Lynch, Melina Matsoukas and Rachel Morrison as Alumni, is ranked as one of many high movie colleges in America. AFI’s enduring traditions embrace the AFI Life Achievement Award, which honors the masters for work that has stood the check of time; AFI AWARDS, which celebrates the artistic ensembles of probably the most excellent display screen tales of the yr; and scholarly efforts such because the AFI Catalog of Function Movies and the AFI Archive that protect movie historical past for future generations. AFI exhibition packages embrace AFI FEST Introduced by Canva and year-round exhibition on the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Heart in Maryland. AFI Film Membership is a vacation spot for film lovers from all over the world to rejoice and interact with the artwork kind on daily basis. Different pioneering packages embrace workshops aimed toward elevating rising storytellers and know-how, together with AFI DWW+ and the AFI Cinematography Intensive Workshop. Examine all of those packages and extra at AFI.com and observe us on social media at Fb.com/AmericanFilmInstitute, YouTube.com/AFI, X.com/AmericanFilm, TikTok.com/@americanfilminstitute and Instagram.com/AmericanFilmInstitute.
About AFI FEST
Now in its thirty ninth yr, AFI FEST is a world-class occasion, showcasing the very best movies from throughout the globe. This yr’s version takes place in Los Angeles from October 22-26, 2025. With an revolutionary slate of programming, the five-day pageant presents screenings, panels and conversations, that includes each grasp filmmakers and new cinematic voices. AFI FEST consists of high-profile movies with Q&As that includes the movies’ forged and crew and a sturdy lineup of fiction and nonfiction options and shorts, offering a one-of-a-kind expertise for film followers. Further data is obtainable at FEST.AFI.com. Join with AFI’s movie pageant at Fb.com/AFIFEST, X.com/AFIFEST, Instagram/AmericanFilmInstitute, TikTok/@AmericanFilmInstitute and YouTube.com/AFI.
About Canva
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