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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees.

Abbreviation

AFI

June 5, 1967 (1967-06-05)[1]

Nonprofit

To educate filmmakers and honor the heritage of the history of cinema in the United States

www.afi.com

– an honor celebrating the creative ensembles of the most outstanding motion picture and television programs of the year

American Film Institute Awards

and AFI Archive – the written history of all feature films during the first 100 years of the art form – accessible free online[7]

AFI Catalog of Feature Films

– a film school led by master filmmakers in a graduate-level program[8]

AFI Conservatory

AFI – a production-based training program committed to increasing the number of women working professionally in screen directing[9]

Directing Workshop for Women

– a tradition since 1973, a high honor for a career in film[10]

AFI Life Achievement Award

– television events and movie reference lists[11]

AFI 100 Years... series

AFI's two film festivals – AFI Fest in Los Angeles and in Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, Maryland[12][13]

AFI Docs

– a historic theater with year-round art house, first-run and classic film programming in Silver Spring, Maryland[14]

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

– a magazine launched in October 1975 that explores the art of new and historic film classics, now a blog on AFI.com[15][16]

American Film

AFI educational and cultural programs include:

the British equivalent to AFI

British Film Institute

Official website

on Internet Archive

American Film Institute

(archived July 17, 2009)

AFI Los Angeles Film Festival – history and information

collected news and commentary at The New York Times

American Film Institute