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# AFI Fest Came and Went Fairly Quickly
- URL: https://www.gofugyourself.com/afi-fest-came-and-went-fairly-quickly/
- Published: 2026-10-27T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-27T16:00:00.000Z
- Description: And brought a smattering of awards hopefuls.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: #hasslideshow, Pedro Pascal, AnnaSophia Robb, Mark Ruffalo, Ava DuVernay, AFI Fest, Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgard, Sophie Okonedo, Stephan James, Anthony Ippolito, Billy Zane, Tom Francis

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Given all these film festivals that seem to last ten days, AFI Fest was neat and tidy and fast – in with Wildwood on the 21st, and out with *Being Heumann* on the 25th, with a pit stop past *Josephine* and *Behemoth!* and a few others in between. Like [*The* *Mosquito Bowl*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FMosquito%5FBowl?ref=gofugyourself.com), the description of which on Wikipedia was written by someone who did not trust our reading comprehension: "It is based on the 2022 Buzz Bissinger book *The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II*, about the Mosquito Bowl game played during World War II." NO KIDDING. Why is it called The Mosquito Bowl? I DO NOT KNOW, because no matter how far I drilled down in Wikipedia, nobody actually says. I am forced to conclude it's because there were lots of mosquitos that night. The Mosquito Bowl took place on Guadalcanal, between a bunch of marines, many of whom were football prospects who went on to play in the pros. However, I did not expect this: "The author Buzz Bissinger believes that he first came across the story while working with Caitlyn Jenner on a memoir about her father, who was part of the troops for the Normandy landings and the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp." From what I can tell, that memoir is *I Am Cait*, a memoir of Jenner herself that reflects on her relationship with her father. When I started typing this, it seemed unlikely this post would circle back around to the Jenner/Kardashian family, but the content gods work in mysterious ways.

Also, bleating sports idiot Pat McAfee has a guest role in this movie, but I refuse to pay for a photo of that buffoon, so he's not in here. This post has thus been marked safe from Pat McAfee. I also just realized that the invasive ad we had on this site for a long time, which PLAGUED US ALL and WOULD NOT GO AWAY, shares his name. In the words of Lisa Simpson:

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###### \[Photos: Kevin Winter, Michael Kovac/Getty Images, Steve Granitz/FilmMagic\]