As a featured component of Los Angeles’ International AFI Film Festival, AFI DigiFest is presenting two interactive media showcases highlighting the latest innovations in digital media and their real-world applications. Presented at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ beautiful Linwood-Dunn Theater, the two days of presentations and seminars will be filled with some pretty dazzling stuff. Here’s the program:

Day One (November 8): AFI hosts a series of curated presentations that highlight noteworthy digital productions from around the world. Among the presentations, Marshall Herskovitz, creator of “Thirty Something,” “My So-Called Life,” and Blood Diamond, will preview “Quarterlife,” a new dramatic broadband series that premieres on myspace on November 11. Presentations rounding out the day feature the best in new digital thinking from the worlds of film, television, games and mobile.

Day Two (November 9): AFI presents five new prototypes incubated in the AFI Digital Content Lab: an online video platform and citizen journalist toolkit for NOW, PBS’ weekly investigative news program; a strategy for retaining viewer interest during ads in a DVR environment for Bravo; a social network tailored for Players, a documentary about video game fans being produced by MTV, EA, and Mekanism; a pilot for an original dramatic machinima series created within a 3D game engine; and, finally, a unique user-generated film contest, Filmocracy, for ITVS.

All five prototypes were conceived and produced by the Lab in collaboration with mentors drawn from top-tier interactive design and production companies.

You can contact marketing and events manager, Chris Denson, at cdenson@afi.com or 323.856.7825, to find out more and to get on the list to receive an official invitation.