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Each year Women In Film & Television Atlanta (WIFTA), often in conjunction with Women In Film & Television International (WIFTI), hosts a short film showcase that highlights the work of talented filmmakers throughout the Southeast and beyond. This year the Showcase will take place in late July.
At the WIFTA Short Film Showcase, there is a focus, of course, on uplifting the works of strong Women filmmakers, crews, and leads. We accept entries from independent filmmakers from all genres – drama, comedy, action, sci-fi animation, spiritual / gospel, documentary and experimental.
WIFTA Short Film Showcase To Be Held In Atlanta
In an effort to merge the art and film communities in Atlanta, WIFTA is connecting with local artists to to include a local performance art piece in the Showcase.
Best Short Film – $500 Prize
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Female RepresentationAlong with the above awards, screenings will include the top film from each of the following categories:
Drama
Comedy
Documentary
Action
Sci-Fi
Animation
Spiritual/Gospel
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The Atlanta Film Festival comes to the city on April 4-14, 2019 and we can’t wait. Nearly 30,000 people are expected to gather in the city to see more than 200 new independent, international, animated, documentary, and short films.
Atlanta Film Festival 2019: Everything you need to know
One of the most prominent and longest-running festivals in the nation, the Atlanta Film Festival is one of only two dozen Oscar-qualifying festivals held in the United States.
Of the hundreds of movies that will screen, the Atlanta Film Festival culled them from 8000+ submissions from all over the world.
Here is the lineup of narrative feature length films for the 43rd Atlanta Film Festival
- AFTERLIFE (HIERNAMAALS
- THE COTTON WOOL WAR (GUERRA DE ALGODÃO)
- CRYSTAL SWAN (Хрусталь)
- FLY BY NIGHT
- HERE AND NOW (AQUÍ Y AHORA)
- INTERNATIONAL FALLS
- JULIA AND THE FOX (JULIA Y EL ZORRO)
- PAGEANT MATERIAL
- PAUSE (PAFSI)
- RECKONING
- SIMPLE WEDDING
- SOUNDLESS DANCE
- SPEED OF LIFE
- TEHRAN: CITY OF LOVE
- THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
- WORLD BEYOND MY MIND (DRAUßEN IN MEINEM KOPF)
If you’re a movie buff, this is a can’t-miss event: In addition to films galore, the Atlanta Film Festival 2019 will host its Creative Conference from April 8-12.
Atlanta Film Festival: Creative Conference
The ATLFF’s Creative Conference features five days of educational activities such as panels, talks and demos that explore every aspect of cinema. If you want to learn more about the technical areas of film, screenwriting, acting, producing, casting, funding and distribution, this is for you. See prices + more.
Atlanta Film Festival: Screencraft Writers Summit
The ATLFF also hosts the Screencraft Writers Summit, where you can mingle with top screenwriters, agents and producers at workshops, panels and cocktail receptions. Get your badge & more.
Where will the Screencraft Writers Summit take place?
The Georgian Terrace is the Primary Venue for the 2019 ScreenCraft Writers Summit. The Georgian Terrace is located at 659 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30308.
For more information on the Atlanta Film Festival, check out their website.
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Georgia is clearly the epicenter of the moviemaking universe. In 2017, the collective economic impact from the film industry bought $9.5 billion to the state, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, further solidifying the Peach State as a movie powerhouse.
Last year an analysis from FilmLA found that Georgia’s ascension atop the movie-making mountain caught much of the nation off-guard. “The rapid growth of the film and television industry in Georgia and the state’s steadfast commitment to its support is remarkable,” the report said. “With 17 projects in 2016, the first-ranked Peach State hosted nearly three times as many feature films as fifth-place New York and Louisiana.”
Venom
The film based in the Marvel universe stars Tom Hardy in the title role along with Michelle Williams (The Greatest Showman), Riz Ahmed (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Jenny Slate (Zootopia) and Woody Harrelson (the Hunger Games franchise, True Detective).
Boy Erased
Boy Erased a movie starring Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe will film in Atlanta. The movie centers around a Baptist preacher’s son who is forced to go through a gay conversion program. Joel Edgerton will direct the movie as well as star in it.
A sequel to the 2015 hit Marvel movie, this newest installment plays off cameos in the “Avengers” and “Captain America” movies and stars Evangeline Lilly, Paul Rudd, and Michael Douglas. Marvel has picked Peyton Reed to direct the feature film.
According to Deadline, Dumplin stars Jennifer Aniston’s and centers around a former beauty pageant queen who now runs the local Texas pageant. The movie will be directed Anne Fletcher and is produced Michael Costigan (Ghost In The Shell).
In the upcoming Georgia-filmed production Ryan Gosling will play Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, in a new biopic directed by La La Land and Whiplash director Damien Chazelle.
Stay with us as we update this list periodically to bring you the latest movies coming to ATL.
Son of Shaft
Superfly
The remake to the 1970s franchise is reportedly being co-produced by Atlanta rapper Future. Production began in January and is set to wrap in early June.
Based off the popular 1970s movie, “Son of Shaft” will star Samuel L. Jackson as a crimefighting vigilante and one bad mother. Production started last fall and will wrap in the next couple months.