This week’s film events are a little light, but still worth your time. A little Fellini and some French film goes a long way. Enjoy! Wednesday (2/2) Emory Cinematheque–Armacord–7:30, FREE Saturday (2/5) French Film Yesterday and Today @ The High–Queen to Play–8p, $7 [Read More]
Greetings, JLB Production will hold auditions for a short film “Internet Date.” This dramatic thriller short deals with the dangers of internet dating. DATE: Saturday, February 5th, 2011 TIME: 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM LOCATION: American Intercontinental University, 6600 Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd., 500 Embassy Row, Atlanta, GA 30328 Please come with [Read More]
Cancelled by the CW in 2009, diehard fans of THE GAME took to Twitter and Facebook to first lobby for the show’s return and then for the beloved series to be picked up by another network. Coming a year after GIRLFRIENDS* own cancellation, the loss of THE GAME was another blow for many African American [Read More]
Here’s what’s going on in the A this last full week in January 2011. Enjoy! Tuesday (1/25) The Room@The Plaza–9:30, $9 Wednesday (1/26) Emory Cinematheque–Shoot The Piano Player–7:30, FREE Saturday (1/29) Silver Scream Spook Show @The Plaza–Frankenstein–1p and 10p, $7.50, $9 [Read More]
Last night I attended the VIP Gala portion of The Next Cool Thing, a three day extravaganza displaying what Georgia’s Interior Design community, inspired by the movies, as well as television, could dream up. Impressively covering every inch of the 90,000 square feet of converted warehouse space, one could find booths featuring design [Read More]
I first met Anthony McHie about four years ago at our second Rapid i Movement at the Atlanta Film Festival. Why do I remember this? One, his passion to do this film thing was evident when I saw him following RiM not once, not twice, but three times in two months. I’ve been doing a [Read More]
If you hang around the Atlanta filmmaking community long enough, you’ll eventually hear the name Crystle ‘Clear’ Roberson come up at some point. Since being awarded Women in Film & Television’s Woman to Watch award back in 2008, Roberson’s been busy building up a healthy resume including working on some of [Read More]
To Whom It May Concern: Recently, an e-mail was sent to your film festival, informing you about a possible litigation between the Executive Producers of *********, and the Director, **************. This dispute is a result of *******refusing to meet with the Executive Producers to discuss the editing and approval of the final version of the [Read More]
The NAACP announced their award nominees this week. As an entity in its 5th decade, and as an off shoot of one of the most prominent and oldest Civil Rights organizations in the world, you’d think that they would demonstrate an acute grasp of what the artistic landscape for folks of Color is. However, as [Read More]
I’ve known Maxwell Guberman for quite a few years now and he sent me the link to the video he shot for the High Museum’s Sur-REEL video contest. It’s a visual ode to Salvador Dali that translates the artists most iconic images into a story on love and loss. Appropriate since it includes a bit [Read More]
I like to do a follow-up on stories we’ve already done at CinemATL, it proves our instincts were true in discovering a local filmmaker who had the mettle to bring their project to fruition. I especially like the one I’m doing now because of how determined the filmmaker involved has been at getting his work completed and at such a high [Read More]
James Brooks makes the kind of Romantic Comedies that are not high concept. They never involve bounty hunters apprehending their exes as meet-cutes or journalists on a story who happen to fall in love. They usually involve people who would like try to stay out of a relationship because they’ve got better things to worry about but wind up in them [Read More]