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Filmfestivals.com will be covering AFM 2020 running November 3 - November 8, 2020 SANTA MONICA
Every Fall, the Global Film Industry Converges in Santa Monica: Filmmakers, producers, directors and writers from around the world come to AFM to gain exposure, discover new projects and make deals. The American Film Market & Conferences is the largest motion picture trade fair in the world.
2021: November 2 – 7 I 2022: November 1 – 6 I 2023: October 31 - November 5 I 2024: November 5 – 10
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AFM 2016 - Screen Media - Line-Up
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2 - 9 NOVEMBER
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STRAY BULLETS
2016 - Crime, Thriller
Director: Jack Fessenden
Cast: Jack Fessenden, Kevin Corrigan, James Le Gros, Larry Fessenden
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
"Strikingly impressive" -Hollywood Reporter
US Theatrical: Feb, 2017
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BOKEH
2016 - Sci-Fi
Director: Geoffrey Orthwein, Andrew Sullivan
Cast: Maika Monroe, Matt O'Leary
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wakes up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event leads them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.
US Theatrical: Q2, 2017
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TRANSPECOS
2016 - Thriller
Director: Greg Kwedar
Cast: Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, Clifton Collins Jr.
On a remote desert highway, a makeshift Border Patrol checkpoint is manned by three agents: Davis, Flores, and Hobbs. It's like most boring days, but soon the contents of one car will change everything. What follows is a journey to uncover the surreal, frightening secrets hidden behind the facade of this lonely outpost. The end of the path may cost them their lives along a border where the line between right and wrong shifts like the desert itself.
US Theatrical: Sep 9, 2016
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BETA TEST
2016-Action/Sci-Fi
Director: Nicholas Gyeney
Cast: Manu Bennett, Larenz Tate, Linden Ashby
Champion gamer Max Troy discovers events in a new video game are being mirrored in the real world, and must join forces with the game's protagonist, Orson Creed, to unravel the conspiracy before the game's sinister plot overwhelms the city.
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THE BET
2016 - Comedy
Director: Ryan Ederer
Cast: Alex Klein, Dallas Page, Jake Roberts
A down on his luck man gets into a high stakes bet where he has one summer to find, and hook up with, every girl he had a crush on from 1st to 12th grade.
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THE ASIAN CONNECTION
2015 - Action/Thriller
Director: Daniel Zirilli
Cast: Steven Seagal, Michael Jai White
Two American expatriates, Jack and Sam, unwittingly steal a drug lord's money when they rob a series of banks in Southeast Asia and become the target of the gang's vengeance. When Sam is killed, Jack turns to the love of his life, Pom, and the couple becomes a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde that takes the fight to the gang.
US Theatrical: May 13, 2016
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SHARK LAKE
2015 - Action/Thriller
Director: Jerry Dugan
Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane
Meredith Hendricks happens to also be the best cop in her quiet town on Lake Tahoe. When a black-market, exotic species dealer named Clint is paroled from prison, something he let loose begins to make its presence known. Swimmers and land-lovers alike begin to become part of the food chain at an unbelievable rate. Meredith and her team discover that they're not just hunting one eating machine, but a whole family of them. Not everyone will make it out alive, but those who do will never forget this summer at Shark Lake.
US Theatrical: Oct 2, 2015
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THE GRIDIRON
2016- Comedy
Director: Gary Delaney
Cast: Michael Dixon, Dorsey Levens
Living a majority of his life as a dreamer, Derek has never amounted to anything no matter how hard he tried. Determined to finally show the world he can succeed at something, he decides to pursue a dream that has every odd against it: form an American Football team in the UK, a country dominated by soccer, rugby, cricket and fish & chips. However, his desire to prove everyone wrong consumes his life, and his drive for success just might lead him to lose everything.
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SIX GUN SAVIOR
2015 - Action/Adventure/Western
Director: Kirk Murray
Cast: Eric Roberts, Matthew Ziff, Martin Kove, Lorraine Ziff
Cowboy Lane McCrae finds himself double crossed after making a deal with the Devil to revive his dead brother. To make things right, he takes his vengeance out on the wild west.
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OPERATION: NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH!
2016 - Family
Director: Mark Cartier
Cast: Denise Richards, Chris Browning, Caitlin Carmichael
When a new neighbor, Dr. Vargus and his daughter, move into a quiet neighborhood, the local kids find the last week of their summer disrupted by mysterious disappearances and strange noises coming from the new neighbor's house. To the deep dismay of his mother (Denise Richards), James and the local neighborhood kids combine forces to find out what's really going on at Dr. Vargus' house.
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BAD HURT
2015 - Drama
Director: Mark Kemble
Cast: Ashley Williams, Johnny Whitworth, Theo Rossi, Karen Allen
Life for the Kendalls has been burdened by grief and claustrophobia. Faced with caring for one child with special needs and another with PTSD, the family struggles for a sense of stability at home in their Staten Island, NY hamlet. When a secret from the past is revealed, it threatens to tear them apart.
US Theatrical: Feb 12, 2016
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DARLING
2015 - Thriller
Director: Mickey Keating
Cast: Sean Young, Larry Fessenden, Lauren Ashley Carter
A lonely girl (Lauren Ashley Carter) is hired as caretaker for a mysterious Manhattan mansion with a twisted past. Living in the old house, she finds herself deeply affected by the troubled lore that surrounds the place. And so begins a violent descent into madness...
US Theatrical: Apr 1, 2016
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About American Film Market Dailies
 WOLF Jonathan
(IFTA) The AFM is not a festival - it is the largest motion picture market in the world. 8,000 industry attendees, including producers, distributors, directors, agents, writers, lawyers & bankers. Over 540 films screened, most world or U.S. premieres.
$US3 Billion spent annually by participants to produce films
8,000+ industry professionals
2,000+ new films and projects
1,000+ production companies
400+ distributors
540+ films screened
100+ world premiers
70+ countries represented
50+ thought leaders speaking
7 days of networking activities
1 beachfront campus that covers it all
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