"We remember a time when Hollywood produced films that celebrated timeless American values"

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A rightwing film festival? Well, why not?

AFR's mission is to spearhead a revival of timeless American values in film and to serve as a forum for voices and ideas often marginalized by the contemporary artistic community. We assist filmmakers in producing and distributing films that reflect the principles that made America great, such as free speech, free enterprise, rugged individualism, freedom of religion and triumph of the human spirit.

Check the FAQ, too.

Found from here, which helpfully lists the winner of the 2005 AFR Screenwriting Contest:

Global Village Idiots by Russell Dvonch

Comedy: An idealistic young man joins an environmentalist commune where a series of comic disasters leads him to embrace the virtues of individualism, capitalism and America.

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Good for them: that's awesome! And on the off chance that they are, in true Soviet fashion, more interested in the political values of the films than their artistic value -- and on the off chance that the films are kind of actually terrible enough to self-marginalize said values -- then all the better!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

yeah, this looks like pure gold

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Well, there was the mention of them giving out basic screenwriting tips to folks who submitted scripts, so perhaps it holds such possibility.

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)

also, from the faq:

We here at AFR love the movies, but we're not so fond of films that wallow in victimhood and self-pity or that portray America, business and religion as the roots of all evil. We remember a time when Hollywood produced films that celebrated timeless American values as a matter of course. Too many contemporary movies are hobbled by the pieties of political correctness and a worldview that is antithetical to individual freedom.

Speaking of Soviet/Stalinist...

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

so, when are they gonna remake the fountainhead? or bring back minstrel shows?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

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"Shhh! Don't tell anybody I've also played a sorta unflattering George Bush Sr.-manqué and a REALLY unflattering George Bush Jr.-manqué...not to mention a really uh OUT THERE George Bush Jr.-not-at-all-manqué."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:42 (twenty years ago)

he was also in that 9/11 teevee movie, wasn't he?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:44 (twenty years ago)

The picture's from a screening of the TV movie -- DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, fyi.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

"Oh, and I used to be HOT, too, WTF?"

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d2/Wilson-quote-in-birth-of-a-nation.jpg/300px-Wilson-quote-in-birth-of-a-nation.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

I assume Walden Media will be there trolling for scripts?

― Rotgutt (Rotgutt), Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:07 (twenty years ago)

slocki posts so that i don't have to :-)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

no PC and no uppity coloreds for this outfit, i tell ya:

http://charliechanfamily.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/castfetchit.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:53 (twenty years ago)

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