AFI FEST Sets "Bobby" for Opening Night and Unveils 13 World Premieres
Indiewire.com
September 20, 2006
Emilio Estevez’s "Bobby," the story of the night Robert F. Kennedy was
assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968, will open
the 2006 AFI FEST, the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival,
much of the large ensemble cast from the film are expected to attend
the opening night at the festival. Also announced were 13 of the films
that will have their world premieres at the 2006 AFI FEST, including
David Cunningham’s "After," J.B. Rutagarama’s "Back Home," Chad Lowe’s
"Beautiful Ohio," David Boyle’s "Big Dreams, Little Tokyo," Alan
White’s "Broken," Daniel Jones & Dann Sytsma’s "Comic Evangelists,"
Alante Kavaite’s "Fissures / Ecoute Le Temps," David Stenn’s "Girl 27,"
Henry Jaglom’s "Hollywood Dreams," Yokihiko Tsutsumi’s "Memories of
Tomorrow," Sedika Mojadidi’s "Motherland Afghanistan," Arnie Williams’
"No Sweat," and Carla Garapedian’s "Screamers." The festival will run
from November 1 – 12, 2006, anchored again at the ArcLight Cinemas
in Hollywood. For more information, visit the festival’s website.
[Screamers follows the rock band System of a Down as they tour Europe
and the US pointing out the horrors of modern genocide that began in
Armenia in 1915 up though Darfur today.]