Know your audience

October 30, 2007 Los Angeles' longest-running film festival, AFI Fest, has been a bastion of constancy in an industry fueled by passing trends. While early screenings of titles such as Noah Baumbach's Paramount Vantage talker "Margot at the Wedding" and Richard Kelly's long-gestating "Southland Tales" do form a significant portion of the programming, the heart of AFI Fest remains the international competitive sections, which are restricted to features, documentaries and shorts making their U.S. debuts and directed by first or second-time filmmakers. Danish director Paprika Steen, who was named one of the New Faces in European Cinema at AFI Fest two years ago, is returning to the International Narrative Competition with her sophomore film, "With Your Permission."

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