AFI 2010

[AviQ]

Congratulations New AFIers!!

Looking forward to being someone's 2nd year mentor next year!

Some recommendations:

We went and opened an AFI group at Facebook when we started getting out acceptances last year and then another forum thread for the ones accepted in this forum, to keep in touch, plan gatherings, figure out roomates, etc etc etc...
its was a great tool to get to know each other before the madness started.

If you are hesitant about accepting going to AFI or not, look for us at Facebook, most disciplines are very active and im sure any of the fellows can provide advice.

Prepare if you accept, going here will take over your life. Tell your significant other that you love them, but that you will be taking a sabatical from personal relationships for a year. That you'll call every now and then but that you cant promise... specially if you're a DP.

Hope those emails keep coming!

Avi

 

[useyourheadset]

Hope those emails keep coming!

anyone hear anything today?

 

[ALowBlow]

Heard zilch. Any other screenwriters in the same boat? I don't know if I can take this waiting game much longer. :-/

 

[lynn]

Hi my name is Lynn and i just found this forum last nite. I applied for cinematography 2010 and had interview but have not heard anything as of today. no emails, phonecalls nada. i can only assume the worst. Congrats on everyone who got accepted. have alot of friends who went. anyone else in limbo with me? Holla

 

[ALowBlow]

Hey Lynn- I had an interview too and haven't heard anything back. I know I'm Miss Complainypants on the board, but again, this waiting game sucks. Congrats to all that have heard back!

 

[beezy16]

Hi Guys! Congrats to everyone who's been accepted! I had one question, does AFI interview everyone they accept? I applied for Directing and sadly have not heard anything.

 

[WhetCherry]

ALowBlow and to anyone else who hasn't heard yet:

Hi I'm Cherise, and as a fellow AFI screenwriting candidate I am in the boat with you. I'm glad to have found this forum where we and our fellow boat-mates can canoodle one another through the process. The seas has been tame but unkind, forcing us to wallow in insecurity, while allowing a glimmer of hope now and then; a tease, to keep us going. This has been my story for the last 2 weeks, I'm oscillating back and forth between these two phases...I'm freaking bi-polar, over here.

As I've been counting the acceptances to the program on this forum, I've been trying to figure a formula- last name, sex, region, faculty interviewers... Anything that would alleviate my nerves.

Have all 28 been accepted already, but most aren't posting on/ aware of the thread?

I've worked out twice today trying to get my mind off my email and my email off my mind, the distraction is only temporary.

All my usual distractions- reading, writing, watching movies... all just serve as painful reminders of how badly I want to do this.

I was interviewed by the department head, Tom Rickman and lecturer Michael Urban. (Were all screenwriters interviewed by the same?) We laughed a lot... I made them laugh; whether with me or at me, I'd take either... regardless. I left my interview feeling great, super-positive and confident- which is out of character for me. I'm usually a major negator- I was so shocked when I received the call for the interview. AFI wants to talk to me? They want to know what this is all about? Awesome. But why???

All through my ride to the campus, I felt the high of empowerment, I felt like freakin' Elle Woods- but Pilipina and pockmarked and from Carson- that maybe the rest of my life would start that day. My freaken story. Because that's the way we screenwriters think, right? Everything is a story.

I interviewed on the first day- Feb22- since then, the confidence that left with me, has steadily left me, decreasing into nothing but a flat line of fretting.

Ahhhhhhhh. I think it's safe to say, “you're not alone.”

But since we are on a boat:
Here's a little something to distract ya, it's old, but still good fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU

 

[spike87]

Hi Guys! Congrats to everyone who's been accepted! I had one question, does AFI interview everyone they accept? I applied for Directing and sadly have not heard anything

I was under the impression that they interviewed twice as many people as they accepted...at least for screenwriting.

 

[Matt Frank]

Well I was getting sick of waiting so I just called the admissions office and I was not accepted =(

Good luck in the fall to all of you who will be attending and I am very sad that I will not be joining you.

 

[maltesefalcon]

sorry to hear that, Matt.

 

[wyy123]

I forgot to mention one thing about my wait-listing.

I didn't receive my alternate e-mail until very late last night around 9, their time, 11 CST. I'm not sure if that means anything or whether or not they had been arguing about who to let in or who was waited.

 

[lynn]

**** AFi.

Cheers to all of you who made it. no diss on u in any way shape or form.


Dont lose your vision in the machine.

 

[Yiling]

Congrats to all who have been admitted.

wyy123, wish you the best of luck.

For me, there is an endless month lying ahead.

 

[ALowBlow]

Still nothing. This blows. I'm about 4 hours away from breaking down and calling them directly... Someone stop me. :-/

 

[L@la]

Sorry to hear that, Matt...

Congrats again to those of you who made it.

I hope to see you all there in the fall, but I still have a whole month of gruesome waiting ahead.
Seeing talented folks not make the cut makes me nervous, I must admit.

 

[goluxx]

Has anyone else gotten a call to interview for directing?

They called me last night, and I'm incredibly excited, but surprised and a little confused. It seems a bit late to be interviewing, and they said I'd missed the opportunity to interview in New York. Is the directing program just way behind? Or did they not interview enough people the first time?

About the "missed" new york interviews - the call I got was definitely a "you've been selected" call, not a "where the hell were you" call.

 

[wyy123]

I know they said that certain programs would continue interviewing and some deadlines were extended, but I dunno about directing.

I keep forgetting things that were mentioned to me while I was there. They said that the most applied for program this year was Directing, then Screenwriting, then Cinematography, Producing, Editing, and Production Design all kind of bunched up.

 

[L@la]

The admissions website says they're conducting interviews through mid April, so the late call doesn't surprise me.
With the large number of applicants for that program, I imagine they need more time to review the applications and talk to all the candidates they want to interview.

 

[youthquake]

Originally posted by goluxx:
Has anyone else gotten a call to interview for directing?

They called me last night, and I'm incredibly excited, but surprised and a little confused. It seems a bit late to be interviewing, and they said I'd missed the opportunity to interview in New York. Is the directing program just way behind? Or did they not interview enough people the first time?

About the "missed" new york interviews - the call I got was definitely a "you've been selected" call, not a "where the hell were you" call.

Ohhh, that's nice! Maybe I'm going keep my phone by me today.

 

[ajaralive]

did someone say they interview double the number of people they finally select? also, i'm beginning to worry about the reaction to 'how're you going to pay for AFI' question.

For those who got in, did any of you say you'd be taking a loan??