Posted. by Larry Gleeson
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES
AFI FEST 2025 PRESENTED BY CANVA TO TAKE PLACE
OCTOBER 22-26
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Los Angeles, CA, January 29, 2025 — Immediately, the American Movie Institute (AFI) introduced the dates for AFI FEST 2025 introduced by Canva. The thirty ninth version of the Institute’s annual movie pageant will happen October 22–26 on the TCL Chinese language Theatres within the coronary heart of Hollywood and have a curated choice of Pink Carpet Premiere screenings, Particular Screenings, World Cinema, Documentaries and Brief Movies.
“For almost 40 years, AFI FEST has been the place for artists and audiences to collect within the coronary heart of Hollywood to have a good time the easiest of worldwide cinema,” mentioned Todd Hitchcock, Director of AFI FEST. “In these difficult instances for our neighborhood, AFI guarantees to fill the autumn with movies that can show the facility of the artwork kind to encourage hope, empathy and pleasure.”
AFI FEST is acknowledged by the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences as a qualifying pageant for the Dwell Motion, Animated and Documentary Brief Movie classes for the annual Academy Awards®. AFI FEST can be a qualifying pageant for consideration for the British Brief Movie classes of each the BAFTA Movie Awards and the British Impartial Movie Awards (BIFA).
Entries for the AFI FEST 2025 Brief Movie Competitors program open in the present day. Brief movies which have been accomplished after October 1, 2024, are eligible for submission to AFI FEST 2025. Filmmakers are invited to submit fiction, documentary and animated quick movies.
SHORT FILM SUBMISSION DATES
Early Deadline – March 1, 2025
Official Deadline – April 12, 2025
Remaining Deadline – Could 31, 2025
Be taught extra about submitting to AFI FEST at FEST.AFI.com or submit by way of Movie Freeway at https://filmfreeway.com/
Program highlights from AFI FEST 2024 introduced by Canva included screenings of 9 Finest Worldwide Oscar® Submissions (together with I’M STILL HERE and THE SEED OF THE SECRET FIG), ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT, HARD TRUTHS, HERETIC, JUROR #2, MARIA, MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS, NICKEL BOYS, NIGHTBITCH, A REAL PAIN, THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, SEPTEMBER 5, THE SUMMER BOOK, UNSTOPPABLE, WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL and extra. Of the official picks 48% have been directed by ladies and non-binary filmmakers and 26% have been directed by BIPOC filmmakers. The pageant additionally introduced two particular occasions: Administrators Highlight: Robert Zemeckis in Dialog with Tom Hanks and Pitch Excellent: Crafting Impactful Visible Decks from a Storyteller’s Perspective. Friends on the pageant included JJ Abrams, Amy Adams, Paul Bettany, Leslie Bibb, Jacqueline Bisset, Laurent Bouzereau, Tommy Chong, Glenn Shut, Toni Collette, Jennifer Connelly, Ryan Coogler, Merlin Crossingham, Ted Danson, Julie Delpy, Zoey Deutch, Mati Diop, Hugh Grant, Tom Hanks, Nicholas Hoult, Ron Howard, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Barry Jenkins, Jharrel Jerome, Angelina Jolie, Caleb Landry Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Pablo Larraín, Philippe Lesage, Jennifer Lopez, John Magaro, Cheech Marin, Charlie McDowell, Malcolm McDowell, Selton Mello, Rachel Morrison, Mark Mothersbaugh, Nick Park, RaMell Ross, Peter Sarsgaard, Paul Schrader, Jurnee Smollet, Steven Spielberg, Mary Steenburgen, Fernanda Torres, John Turturro, Lulu Wang, Robert Zemeckis, Wallace & Gromit and extra.
AFI is a nonprofit, donor-powered group. Be a part of AFI’s Premiere Circle to assist the American Movie Institute and luxuriate in entry to unique one-of-a-kind alternatives at AFI occasions, together with AFI FEST. To study extra, electronic mail Development@AFI.com.
Canva, the all-in-one visible communication and collaboration platform, returns because the unique Presenting Sponsor of AFI FEST 2025. Designed to empower leisure professionals to visualise their concepts into impactful movie and TV initiatives, Canva shall be built-in all through AFI FEST together with internet hosting trade networking occasions, hands-on coaching workshops for filmmakers, and powering the pageant’s digital and printed supplies. Leisure professionals can discover sources to pitch initiatives, plan shoots, and convey artistic visions to life at canva.com/leisure.
Concerning 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 prime movie faculties in America. AFI’s enduring traditions embrace the AFI Life Achievement Award, which honors the masters for work that has stood the take a look at of time; AFI AWARDS, which celebrates the artistic ensembles of probably the most excellent display screen tales of the 12 months; 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 applications embrace AFI FEST and year-round exhibition on the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Middle in Maryland. AFI Film Membership is a vacation spot for film lovers from world wide to have a good time and have interaction with the artwork kind every single day. Different pioneering applications embrace workshops aimed toward growing range within the storytelling neighborhood, together with AFI DWW+ and the AFI Cinematography Intensive for Girls. Examine all of those applications and extra at AFI.com and observe us on social media at Fb.com/
About AFI FEST
Now in its thirty ninth 12 months, AFI FEST is a world-class occasion, showcasing the perfect movies from throughout the globe. This 12 months’s version takes place in Los Angeles from October 22-26, 2025. With an modern slate of programming, the five-day pageant presents screenings, panels and conversations, that includes each grasp filmmakers and new cinematic voices. AFI FEST contains high-profile movies with Q&As that includes the movies’ forged and crew and a strong lineup of fiction and nonfiction options and shorts, offering a one-of-a-kind expertise for film followers. Extra info is out there at FEST.AFI.com. Join with AFI’s movie pageant at Fb.com/AFIFEST, Twitter.com/AFIFEST, Instagram/
About Canva
Launched in 2013, Canva is the world’s main all-in-one platform for visible communication and collaboration. Constructed to empower everybody to design, the corporate serves the artistic and design wants of enterprises, small companies, shoppers, and college students in additional than 190 international locations worldwide.
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Press contact:
American Movie Institute: Shari Mesulam, shari@themesulamgroup.com
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