American Film Institute

  • Article

    The Curation Problem & How to do Submissions Right

    Curation is Broken. We need to start by getting one thing straight—most of the curation we talk about today in our everyday digital lives isn’t true curation at all.

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    Documentary Douwe Dijkstra

    Supporting Film

    From the perspectives of a dozen diverse viewers, this 12 minute documentary short explores the peculiar ritual of watching film. How is the medium experienced by people with sensory impairments, strong religious beliefs, or lovesickness? A story about moving images and their audience.

  • Interview

    Interview: Max Winston

    It's been over a year since we stopped getting in touch with filmmakers on a regular basis, and one of the things we got back from you readers before our redesign, was that you wanted that sad state of affairs to end. So it will.

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    Documentary Leslie Tai

    My American Surrogate

    China’s elite and infertile are flocking to Southern California to hire American surrogates to have their babies for them, and Qiqi is there to help.

  • Filmmaker Update

    The Short List: Karen Maine Interview

    A chat with the director of the SXSW premiere feature "Yes, God, Yes", adapted from the viral short of the same name.

  • The Short List

    The Short List: Jacob Chase

    “Who am I to say no to Steven Spielberg?" - Jacob Chase joins us to discuss how he turned his short film 'Larry' into Amblin produced feature 'Come Play'.

  • Article

    Fashion Film Roundup Pt. 1: Scorcese, Miller, Lynch & Ritchie

    The assault that the city of New York has been under for the last week, perpetrated by 5'11, birdlike amazons, garbed in freakish war paint and extravagant, yet bizarrely soft battle armor, is now over. I speak of course of Fashion Week New York which ended yesterday, one of the 4 international fashion weeks which rule the industry and establish the direction the fashion world will take in the coming year.

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