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    AFI, The White House Team On Student Film Festival

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. --

    For one day only, the White House will transform into a movie house for what will be a live streamed event online.

    The American Film Institute is collaborating with the White House for the very first White House Student Film Festival held on Friday, February 28, 2014.

    K-12 students from all over the country were asked to create short films about the connection between technology and education. Inside the East Room of the White House, President Obama will offer opening remarks prior to the screening of the top films.

    Tune in this Friday at 3:30 p.m. ET/ 12:30 p.m. PT to watch the film festival as well as all the 16 short films as they stream live at whitehouse.gov/live.

    Kal Penn (HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE) and Neil DeGrasse Tyson will also be present at the White House event.

    AFI's work with the White House marks a continuation of its presence in the nation's capital where the Institute was founded in 1965. AFI Docs, the Institute's annual documentary festival, takes place in landmark venues throughout Washington, DC and the historic AFI Silver Theatre. This year, AFI Docs will be held June 18-22.




    Donald Trump vows to help “troubled” Hollywood with Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone

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    Jon Voight, a cast member in "Reagan," poses at the premiere of the film at the TCL Chinese Theatre, on Aug. 20, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

    Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood "bigger, better and stronger" and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his "Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California."

    On Wednesday, the President-elect announced on his social media site that the three actors would be his eyes and ears to the moviemaking town.

    "It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!" he wrote on Truth Social.

    He also called the trio special envoys. Special ambassadors and envoys are typically chosen to respond to troubled hot spots like the Middle East, not California.

    U.S. film and television production has been hampered in recent years, with setbacks from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hollywood guild strikes of 2023 and, in the past week, the ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Overall production in the U.S. was down 26% from 2021, according to data from ProdPro.

    In the greater Los Angeles area, productions were down 5.6% from 2023 according to FilmLA, the lowest since 2020. This past October, Governor Gavin Newsom proposed expanding California's Film & Television Tax Credit program to $750 million annually (up from $330 million). Other U.S. cities like Atlanta, New York, Chicago and San Francisco have used tax incentives to lure film and TV productions to their cities. Actor Mark Wahlberg is even making plans for a Las Vegas production hub.

    It's unclear what exactly Gibson, Voight and Stallone will be doing in this effort to bring productions back to the U.S. Their representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    Trump's decision to select the actors as his chosen "ambassadors" underscores his... Read More

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