The 28th American Film Market (AFM), which takes off today, will screen a total of 522 films in the next seven days in Santa Monica, Calif. Billed as "the largest motion picture trade event in the world," AFM 2007 will serve as the launching pad for 106 industry world premieres and 364 market premieres.
Among the films making their industry world premieres are: Carnera, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham and Paul Sorvino (Epic Pictures Group); Flick, with Academy Award winner Faye Dunaway (AV Pictures Ltd.); Mad Money, starring Katie Holmes, Academy Award winner Diane Keaton, and Queen Latifah (Nu Image, Inc.); Sanjuro, written by the late Akira Kurosawa (Toho Co., Ltd.); Smart People, with Thomas Haden Church, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Dennis Quaid (QED International); Tales of the Riverbank, starring Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent and Stephen Fry (Handmade Films International); and The Neighbor, with Matthew Modine (Curb Entertainment International Corp.).
Among the other films on the AFM 2007 screening schedule are All God's Children Can Dance, starring Joan Chen (Kimmel International); Anamorph, with Willem Dafoe (Mainline Releasing); Battle in Seattle, with Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson and Ray Liotta; Julian Schnabel's Berlin, with Lou Reed (Fortissimo Film Sales); Bill, starring Jessica Alba, Aaron Eckhart, and Timothy Olyphant (GreeneStreet Films); Blood Brothers from producer John Woo (Fortissimo Film Sales); Death Defying Acts, starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones (Myriad Pictures); Disengagement, with Juliette Binoche (StudioCanal); Eichmann, with Stephen Fry (Media 8 Entertainment); Fog City Mavericks, featuring Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood and George Lucas (Starz Media); George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (Voltage Pictures); Lars and the Real Girl, starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, and Patricia Clarkson (Kimmel International); Married Life, with Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Cooper and Rachel McAdams (Kimmel International); Nobel Son, featuring Ted Danson, Danny De Vito, Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman, and Mary Steenburgen (Voltage Pictures); Purple Violets, starring Edward Burns and Debra Messing (Showcase Entertainment, Inc.); Resurrecting the Champ, with Alan Alda, Josh Hartnett, and Samuel L. Jackson (Yari Film Group); and When a Man Falls in the Forest, starring Timothy Hutton and Sharon Stone (Rigel Entertainment).
The screening schedule and a full list of films available during AFM can be found in the AFM Catalogue of Films (www.afmfilms.org). Visitors to the site can search films by genre, language, production status, budget, director, cast, company, and title.
According to the AFM press release, "unlike a film festival, the AFM is a marketplace where production and distribution deals are closed. In just eight days, more than $800 million in deals will be sealed — on both completed films and those that haven't started shooting yet — making AFM the must-attend industry event."
The American Film Market is produced by the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), a trade association representing the world's producers and distributors of independent motion pictures and television programs.
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