'DEVIL' DIRECTOR GETS AFI ALUMNI AWARD.Byline: Hollywood Reporter Carl Franklin, director of "Devil in a Blue Dress" and "One False Move," will receive the 1996 Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Award from the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase recognition and understanding of the art of film. The institute operates a movie theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.. The award will be presented today as part of the 24th annual AFI AFI - American Film Institute AFI - Awaiting Further Instructions AFI - A Fire Inside (band) AFI - A Friend Indeed AFI - Address Family Identifier AFI - Adjusted for Inflation AFI - Advanced Financial Integrator AFI - Advanced Flight Instructor (aviation) AFI - Affinity Index (advertising) AFI - Africa Flight Information (region) AFI - African Indian Ocean Geographic Region AFI - After Flight Inspection Life Achievement Award dinner in honor of Clint Eastwood. Franklin becomes the sixth recipient of the Schaffner award, joining AFI alumni David Lynch, Ed Zwick, Randa Haines, Martin Brest Brest, city, FranceBrest (brĕst), city (1990 pop. 153,099), Finistère dept., NW France, on an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a commercial port, an important naval station, and the seat of the French Naval Academy. There is a national engineering school in Brest and nearby is the Oceanographic Center of Brittany. and Jon Avnet.Franklin graduated from the AFI Conservatory in 1986. Franklin, who also directed the HBO movie "Laurel Avenue." |
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