In April 2003, AFI re-opened the 1938 AFI Silver theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland just north of Washington.

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

As the largest nonprofit exhibitor in the United States, AFI screens films regularly at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD, and the ArcLight Cinemas and Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA.

Programming at the AFI Silver Theatre consists of an eclectic mix of retrospectives, festivals and first-run features as well as community events and educational activities.

In 1992, Aronofsky received his MFA degree in directing from the AFI Conservatory, where his classmates included Scott Silver, Doug Ellin, and Mark Waters.

* The Wootton TV / Film Club submitted a film to the Montgomery County Schools Media Festival held on April 28, 2006 at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland.

* AFI Silver Theater

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.

The AFI Silver hosts the annual Silverdocs documentary festival with co-sponsor Silver Spring-based Discovery Channel.

* AFI Silver official homepage

* AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Arts Center Silver Spring's Downtown

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.

AFI FEST is the only film festival in the US to hold FIAPF ( Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films ) accreditation.

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 next year, the AFI named J. J. Hunsecker number 35 of the top 50 movie villains of all time.

at the Disco borrows imagery from a movie such as Moulin Rouge !, you have to consider the precedent AFI set when they borrowed cues from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.

In 2005, a line from the movie was chosen by AFI for their list of the top 100 movie quotes from U. S. films.

Directed by Sally Riley, the movie won Best Short Fiction Film at the 2000 AFI Awards.

* Nominated for Best Music Score for the movie Head On at the Australian Film Institute Awards ( AFI Awards, 2001 );

In 2008, AFI nominated Ghosts of Mississippi for the Courtroom Drama segment of its AFI's 10 Top 10 special but the movie did not make the final countdown.

In 1988 Jordan sang and co-wrote the theme song to the hit Australian movie Boulevard of Broken Dreams which was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Film.

Part of the AFI 100 Years ... series, AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

In 2003, the AFI named him number 24 of the top 50 movie villains of all time.

Milliken first became noticed when she starred in the 1991 made-for-TV movie Act of Necessity for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute ( AFI ) Award.