AFI operates two film festivals: AFI FEST in Los Angeles, CA, and AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS documentary festival in Silver Spring, MD.

As guest Artistic Director at AFI FEST 2010, David Lynch selected Tati's Mon Oncle alongside Hour of the Wolf ( Dir Ingmar Bergman ), Lolita ( Dir Stanley Kubrick ), Rear Window ( Dir Alfred Hitchcock ) and Sunset Boulevard ( Dir Billy Wilder ) to be screened in his sidebar program, explaining that ...

The William Castle Story, directed by Jeffrey Schwarz, had its premiere at AFI FEST 2007 in Los Angeles on November 8, 2007.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, started in 1968, is an online database that preserves the history of American film in encyclopedic detail.

The AFI Digital Content Lab is a research and development facility for digital media located on the LA campus.

AFI ScreenNation is a Web site featuring AFI-produced educational materials and tips for new filmmakers to share work, receive recognition and compete for prizes.

He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d ' Or, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.

The film is ranked eighth on the List of America's 100 Most Inspiring Movies compiled by the American Film Institute ( AFI ) in 2006.

AFI ( A Fire Inside ) is an American alternative rock band from Ukiah, California formed in 1991.

The release of Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes is also notable because AFI started to gather a larger following.

The band then recorded Black Sails in the Sunset ( 1999 ), a musical turning point which introduced AFI fans to a much darker sound, mixing the band's original hardcore roots with dark romantic influences ( a poem by Charles Baudelaire, " De profundis clamavi ," is present in the hidden track " Midnight Sun ") and an emphasis on a more somber atmosphere and lyrics.

Led by front man Davey Havok, AFI is acknowledged for introducing hardcore punk | hardcore, horror punk and elements of straight edge to a wider audience.

* Cat Ballou is the favorite film of comedy directors Bobby & Peter Farrelly, as stated in The AFI 100 Years, 100 Laughs television special.

" Girl's Not Grey " is a song by American rock band AFI.

" A Family Legacy ", is short film featuring Australian AFI award winning actor Nathaniel Dean.

It is responsible for producing Australia's premier film and television awards, the annual AFI Awards.

As Australia's foremost motion picture industry association, AFI promotes the Australian film and television industry and plays a central role in the way in which the Australian film industry is known and understood, both locally and internationally.

The AFI is affiliated with the Los Angeles Australian Film & Television Association.

The AFI Research Collection is a significant non-lending, specialist film and television industry resource.

Written with candour, insight and a thorough analysis of the context set by the film and television industry in Australia over five decades, it provokes readers with its central polemic, that the development of a healthy screen culture is essential to the production of a successful production industry, and that the AFI should be recognised for its vital contribution to Australian film culture over half a century.

Black Sails in the Sunset is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band AFI.

Alternative Press gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars, commenting that " with new guitarist Jade Puget adding a sense of brooding, thespian eloquence to the disc's shadowy post-hardcore, AFI all but reinvented themselves ," and " With longer, deeper, richer, more complex compositions than they've ever attempted before, Black Sails tackles everything from brooding hardcore ... to shimmering balladry ..." The publication also went as far as to say that Black Sails is " their first epic.

It is the only song by AFI to contain lead vocals by Hunter Burgan, which can be heard during the chorus of the song.

However, the AFI retrospective compilation is often called ' The Weight of Words ' on online shopping sites.

The AFI Silver is a three-screen movie theater complex in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, just north of Washington, D. C. in the United States of America.

The AFI Silver is the result of a restoration project for the original Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, which was originally designed by movie palace architect John Eberson and constructed in 1938.

David Lean received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990, being one of only three non-Americans to receive the award.

Shoutmouth. com placed AFI at number 22 on its list of the 25 most influential punk bands, noting that the band " have evolved with each album, showing that a punk band can not only change, but stay true to their sound at the same time.

The latest edition of AFI 36-2903 states, " Authorized permanent wear of black US Army Air Assault badge on the BDUs only, regardless of duty assignment.

AFI has also honored star Cary Grant as one of the greatest American screen legends among males, second only to Humphrey Bogart.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.

That program grew into the AFI Conservatory, a fully accredited graduate film school, located in the hills above Hollywood, CA.

The film also appeared in another AFI Top 100 list: it placed at 11th on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list of the top American films.

In June 2008, AFI revealed its " Ten Top Ten "-the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres-after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

The score was ranked by the AFI as the second greatest American film score of all time.

In June 2008, AFI revealed its " Ten top Ten "— the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres — after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

He also directed one section of the three-part, three-director feature film Three To Go ( 1970 ), which won an AFI award.

) In June 2008, the AFI revealed its " 10 Top 10 "— the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres — after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

In June 2008, the AFI revealed its " Ten top Ten " – the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres – after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

Other AFI polls rated it as having the 14th greatest music score and as the third greatest science-fiction film.

According to an AFI interview with Stewart Stern, with whom Shulman worked on the screenplay, one of the scenes was thought to be too emotionally provocative to be included in the final print of the film.

" In June 2008, AFI listed Red River as the fifth-best film in the western genre.

In 1991, Sherlock, Jr. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ," and on June 14, 2000 the American Film Institute, as part of its AFI 100 Years ... series, ranked the film as # 62 in the list of the funniest films of all time ( AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs ).

In June 2008, AFI revealed its " Ten top Ten "— the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres — after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

Malick's start in film began after earning an MFA from the AFI Conservatory in 1969, directing Lanton Mills.

AFI also named 12 Angry Men the 42nd most inspiring film, the 88th most heart-pounding film and the 87th best film of the past hundred years.

In June 2008, AFI announced its " Ten top Ten "— the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres — after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

In June 2008, AFI revealed its " Ten top Ten "— the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres — after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.