Red Carpet Photos from Pegasus News

John P. Meyer of Pegasus News posts 22 photos from an AFI DALLAS red carpet at The Magnolia, and this note:

"Man, I was sure glad they moved the red carpet inside last night (Friday) - otherwise we might have ended up with a slew of sopping wet celebrities, along with photographers shooting from inside of plastic trash bags to keep their expensive photo gear dry."

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Coverage Roundup: From Fort Worth

The view from the Forth Worth Star-Telegram:

"AFI DALLAS proved to be a triumph of public relations: For the past month, I couldn't drive to work without encountering a large billboard for the festival at University Drive and I-30. In Dallas, billboards and posters have been ubiquitous since January. Festival organizers also did a great job of enticing the local media, which treated the opening-night event as if it were the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscars combined."

Fort Worth's Lone Star Film Society plans to launch the Lone Star International Film Festival in conjunction with Fort Worth Sister Cities in November 2007.

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Looking Back: Eve of Understanding

The filmmmakers behind Eve of Understanding, which screened as part of the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival, post 10 photos of their red carpet experience here. "Thanks to John Wildman pictured above with Jen & Alyson for all his fantastic PR efforts - the entire festival staff has been an amazing press machine."

• Open Plan Productions

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Video: Ricki Lake at AFI DALLAS

Dallas Voice: Ricki Lake at AFI DALLAS on Vimeo

Dallas Voice talks with Ricki Lake, star of PARK, and Dana Jackson, producer of PARK, at the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival. Watch the video here. Visit Dallas Voice here.

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Coverage Roundup: April 1

Round of latest AFI DALLAS International Film Festival coverage from the Dallas Morning News:

Duo has success's number Dallas Morning News - Part of that alchemy is the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival, which concludes tonight. Victory helped sponsor the festival, which used the plaza, ...

AFI NOTEBOOK Dallas Morning News - Modern media mogul Todd Wagner was the main attraction of AFI DALLAS' Saturday talk show slate at the Nasher Sculpture Center. ...

N9NE Group serving up fun in Victory Park Dallas Morning News - Part of that alchemy is the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival, which concludes tonight. Victory helped sponsor the festival, which used the plaza, ...

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Looking Back: A Filmmaker's Last Day

Final impressions of the 2007 AFI DALLAS International Film Festival from filmmaker Phil Abetacola (THE CHASE) in words and pictures on his personal blog:

"Overall, the films have been very good, or at least very well done, and the people have been wonderful. When I say this, I don’t just mean the filmmakers, but also the staff.

Now thinking of this does bring into my mind something James said a day ago. He said, 'they really have it down, this illusion that this festival is all about us.'

Now when James says 'us' he doesn’t mean it editorially as in filmmakers in general, but 'us' as in James and myself.

When we walk in to any sponsored event, get into any shuttle, which are all Lexus by the way, and when we need to eat or drink, it's all provided and it’s always for us, specifically for us."

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Looking Back: 'Fest's a Winner'

Looking back at the 2007 AFI DALLAS International Film Festival with Robert Wilonsky, Dallas Observer, on the Unfair Park blog:

"Sounds like the fest's a winner, at least with theater managers who say their 'plexes have been full-up for most screenings. Shawn Mahan, general manager at the Magnolia Theater, says he expected attendance to be 'up and down, and, for the most part, it's been up'; lines have wrapped around the building for some screenings, a pattern oft repeated over at the Angelika (least, that's what my folks have said, and they’ve been damned near every day)."

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Coverage from Dallas Morning News

A roundup of "Scenes from AFI," a column covering the 2007 AFI DALLAS International Film Festival in the Dallas Morning News.

Scenes from AFI: TCU grad has taste of success Mar 30, 2007 - By STEPHEN BECKER / Staff Writer. The 24-year-old actress from Haltom City stars in two films playing in the festival – Dallas-shot The Night of the White ... Scenes from AFI: Look at a rocker's life Mar 29, 2007 - By STEPHEN BECKER / The Dallas Morning News. AJ Schnack faced a unique challenge in making his most recent film, Kurt Cobain: About a Son. ... Scenes from AFI: Zombie tale eats at you Mar 28, 2007 - By CHRIS VOGNAR / Movie Critic. Canadian filmmaker Andrew Currie is coming to town for AFI Dallas, and he wants a recommendation for a good steakhouse. ... Scenes from AFI: A composer who knows the score Mar 27, 2007 - By STEPHEN BECKER / Staff Writer. Is there an award that Marvin Hamlisch hasn't won? He's one of a handful of people to win an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony, ... Scenes from AFI: Lynch keeping it odd Mar 26, 2007 - By CHRIS VOGNAR / The Dallas Morning News. AP. He'll probably say more than that when he and Laura Dern pick up their Star Awards tonight before a screening ... Scenes from AFI: Underdog racer is really driven Mar 26, 2007 - By STEPHEN BECKER / Staff Writer. Like Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights, Jeff Milburn has always wanted to go fast. From attending races with his family as a ... Scenes from AFI Mar 26, 2007 - By CHRIS VOGNAR / Movie Critic. Robert Edsel's epiphany came about seven years ago, as he crossed the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy. ...

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Full 20-Minute Interview with David Lynch at AFI DALLAS

See a full 20-minute interview with David Lynch at the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival here. See a quick two-minute excerpt here.

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Blog Coverage for AFI DALLAS

Check these recent online updates from attendees and bloggers at the inaugural AFI DALLAS International Film Festival. (Generously compiled by Jette Kernion at Cinematical.)

• Filmmaker Chris Hansen: 1 | 2
• Dallas Observer's Robert Wilonsky: 1 | 2
• Peter Martin from Twitch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
• Blake from Cinema Strikes Back: 1
• Dallas Morning News: 1 | 2 | 3
  
• Pegasus News: 1
• Pop Syndicate: 1 | 2 | 3

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Coverage Roundup: March 28

• Newbie AFI DALLAS Fest Kicks the Door In [indieWIRE]
• Jack Valenti Had a Very Good Excuse [Dallas Observer]
• Valenti suffers stroke; prognosis good [Hollywood Reporter]
• AFI DALLAS Review: Who Loves the Sun [Cinematical]
• Mid-Fest Review [Film Threat]
• The Day Bill Paxton Saw John F. Kennedy [Dallas Observer]
• Savoring the view at AFI [Dallas Morning News]

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Coverage Roundup: March 27

• On the Set of 'Music Within' [Herald Democrat]
• Pollack Humbled By AFI DALLAS Award [Channel 3000]
• America The Beautiful Forces Look in the Mirror [BlackNews.com]

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What the Bloggers Are Saying

Coverage of the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival from posts around the blogosphere.

• AFI DALLAS, Here We Come [Phil Abatecola] "James Crocket and I are heading to AFI DALLAS in about ten hours to promote our short film, The Chase!"
• The King of Kong Review [Twitch] "Seth Gordon's film is not so much about the 'video' part of that word as it is about the games we play in our lives: games of self-deception, self-delusion, and self-involvement."
• AFI DALLAS Screening Update [Making Movies in Flyover Country] "AFI DALLAS has set up a major event here - they really treat the filmmakers well."
• Review: Beings [Cinematical] "There's nothing like a good midnight screening of an alien abduction flick to really get your film festival off to a good start..."

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Coverage Roundup: March 23

• AFI DALLAS Film Festival Kicks Off [Variety] "In a world that already claims more than 4,000 film festivals worldwide, the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival may have created something new: First, the sponsors. Then, the films."


• Hope, and Photo Ops [Dallas Morning News] " The red carpet in front of the Majestic Theatre rolled on for almost 100 feet Thursday night, though the packed-in press jockeying along the rope could have stretched for another city block. If the AFI Dallas International Film Festival sees a similar demand for seats at its 90 features as it did opening night, the inaugural event will go down as an unqualified success."


• Photo Gallery: AFI DALLAS Opening Night [Pegasus News] "It was great to see a big turnout for the first night of the fest, and it got even greater when the celebrities started arriving and commenced looking just as much like celebrities as we'd hoped they would."


• Video: AFI Brings Hollywood to Dallas [CBS 11] "Organizers of the festival say it's a first step to putting Dallas on the film map."


• Film festival comes to Dallas [SMU Daily Campus]


• AFI Film Festival Brings Hollywood Feel To Dallas [NBC5i]


• AFI DALLAS Kicks Off [QuickDFW]

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