Archive for November, 2011

Notes from a Festival Programmer: How Your Trailer May Kill Your Chances of Being Accepted

Movie Posters and Trailers. Two marketing tools that are nearly as old as cinema itself, with posters going back hundreds of years when you link its lineage to the theater. Of the two, Poster has become a (lost) art form unto herself. Unlike her marketing sibling, Trailer, Poster can’t use clips from a film, or [Read More]

Atlanta Film This Week

Atlanta Film This Week

    There’s lots to do this week, assuming you have recovered from your tryptophan coma.  Enjoy! Monday (11/28) @The Porter Sanford Center–Alley Pat:The Music is Recorded–7:30p– RSVP Here Tuesday (11/29) Peripheral Visions Presents–Films for One to Eight Projectors (shorts by Roger Beebe)–7p, FREE [Read More]

Atlanta Film this Week

Atlanta Film this Week

Ugly dogs, zombies in Africa, and burlesque–all coming to an Atlanta screen near you.  Enjoy!   Wednesday (11/16) @Auburn Avenue Research Library–Ghetto Physics:Speak Truth to Power–6p, FREE @Georgia Tech/Nollywood Film Screening–Memories of the Heart–7p, FREE @Landmark Midtown Art Cinema–Steve Jobs: The [Read More]

Atlanta Film This Week

Atlanta Film This Week

  There’s a chance of being buried alive this week.  Enjoy!   Tuesday (11/8) Splatter Cinema @The Plaza–Pumpkinhead–9:30p, FREE Wednesday (11/9) Emory Cinematheque–Dark Streets and Dangerous Dames: Film Noir–Bound–7:30p, FREE @Charis Books–Aspie Girls–7:30p, $5 Thursday (11/10) @Poem [Read More]