Sixty seconds or less. There are so many good films capturing my attention in that amount of time this year. As a filmmaker, this is what you are up against. There is no “wait till you get to the good part.” There is no waiting for Act II to kick in. As a filmmaker who [Read More]
Enjoy! Tuesday (12/6) Art Papers Screening–The Forgotten Space–7p, FREE Wednesday (12/7) @Emory–Walk on Water–7p, FREE Friday (12/9) Film Love–Andy Warhol#8: Kiss–8p, $5 Saturday (12/10) @The High–ASIFA presents Best Animated Shorts of 2011–2p, 8p, FREE [Read More]
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]
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]
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]
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]
After you get your Halloween candy fix, take yourself to see a flick. Enjoy! Wednesday (11/2) @Emory–Crossfire–7:30p, FREE @The Plaza–Superheroes and Hello Caller–9:30p, $9 Thursday (11/3) @Emory Law–The Response–7p, FREE @The Woodruff Arts Center–Claire–8p, $17.50 Friday (11/4) @The [Read More]
For your trick and treatin’ pleasure. Enjoy! Monday (10/24) @The Plaza–Dear God No!–9:45p, $9 Tuesday (10/25) @Emory–Dance on Reel: An Evening of Dance on Camera–7:30p, FREE @The Plaza–The Room–9:45p, $9 Wednesday (10/26) Emory Cinematheque/Dark Streets and Dangerous Dames: Film [Read More]
It’s festival submission time around the country. Which means we’re getting closer and closer to the last week of November. Which as many of you know is when Sundance contacts the filmmakers who were accepted, and at that point, the “did we or did we not” waiting comes to an end for thousands of filmmakers. [Read More]
Zombies, crazy birds, and Eisenberg as Zuckerberg? Oh My! Enjoy this week’s film events! Tuesday (10/18) @Hammonds House–If God’s Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise Pt. 1–6p, $5 Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival @The Plaza–9:30p, FREE Wednesday (10/19) @Hammonds [Read More]
There have been a lot of remakes and when it was originally announced that Zac Effron was going to be filling the shoes of Kevin Bacon in the remake of Footloose it seemed liked they were going to Disney-fy one of MTV Generation’s first movies. Then director Craig Brewer was brought on board and Effron’s name quietly disappeared from the [Read More]
Take time to enjoy the Evil Dead and such! Tuesday (10/11) Splatter Cinema @The Plaza–Evil Dead II–9:30p, $9 Wednesday (10/12) Emory Cinematheque/Dark Streets and Dangerous Dames: Film Noir–Detour–7:30p, FREE Saturday (10/15) Silver Scream Spook Show @The Plaza–Haunted [Read More]
Fall is for film lovers. Enjoy! Monday (10/3) Out on Film Festival 2011 Reel Abilities Atlanta Disabilities Film Festival Tuesday (10/4) The Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse @The Plaza–Night of the Comet–9:30p, $9 Out on Film Festival 2011 Reel Abilities Atlanta Disabilities Film Festival Wednesday [Read More]
Atlanta is on fire this week. There are numerous events, including two film festivals and two film series. Enjoy! Tuesday (9/27) @The Plaza–The Room–9:30p, $9 Wednesday (9/28) Emory Cinematheque/Dark Streets and Dangerous Dames: Film Noir–Sorry, Wrong [Read More]
There’s lots going on this week. Enjoy! Wednesday (9/21) Emory Cinematheque–Lady from Shanghai–7:30p, FREE Thursday (9/22) @The Plaza–Farmageddon–7:30p, $9 Movies in the Park @Atlantic Station–Dreamworks–Dusk, FREE DocuFest Atlanta Friday (9/23) Films that Matter–Remember The Titans–7p, FREE [Read More]
Fall is in full swing, so it’s time to get your movie-watching done! Enjoy! Tuesday (9/13) Splatter Cinema @The Plaza–The Conqueror Worm–9:30p, $9 Wednesday (9/14) Emory Cinematheque–The Killers–7:30p, FREE Thursday (9/15) Feminist Film Forum–Orgasm, [Read More]
As a programmer for the Atlanta Film Festival, we get many, many emails every week, if not every day, during submission time. It’s an expected part of the job. What’s a little bit irksome isn’t the amount of emails, it’s more often the lack of useful information. Take this as an example: I’m a **********student [Read More]
This week filmmaker George Kuchar passed away. Andy Diztler — the curator of Film Love, an ongoing series of experimental film in Atlanta — knew Mr. Kuchar personally and sent this message out to his email list. I thought it was worth sharing here. Dear friends of Film Love, As some of you have heard, [Read More]
In my four years at the Atlanta Film Festival there are some things, peripherally as communications director and now directly as a programmer, I’ve run into time and time again with submissions. Many are common mistakes (or nitpicks on my part) that several filmmakers are making when they’re submitting their films. Many of them can be [Read More]
Ease on into fall. Enjoy! Tuesday (8/30) @The Plaza–The Room–9:30p, $9 Wednesday (8/31) Emory Cinematheque–Out of the Past–7:30p, FREE Thursday (9/1) Movies in the Park @Atlantic Station–Sex and the City 2–Dusk, FREE [Read More]