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ATLFF Alumni Spotlight: Emily Sheskin
Festival Alum, 2023 Festival ATLFS Marketing 6/25/25 Festival Alum, 2023 Festival ATLFS Marketing 6/25/25

ATLFF Alumni Spotlight: Emily Sheskin

Touch base with us and the director of the Atlanta Film Festival 2023 Best Documentary Feature Special Jury Mention, Emily Sheskin.

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ATLFF Alum Tim Hall is Back With His Third Feature LANDLOCKED
Festival Alum, Filmmaking ATLFS Marketing 10/24/18 Festival Alum, Filmmaking ATLFS Marketing 10/24/18

ATLFF Alum Tim Hall is Back With His Third Feature LANDLOCKED

ATLFF Alum and 2017 Georgia Film Award winner (BORN RIVER BYE) Tim Hall is back with another southern homegrown feature. Hall currently is raising funds for his third feature, LANDLOCKED which he is shooting locally in Smyrna and St. Simons.

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Congratulations Are in Order for ATLFF Screenplay Competition Alumni Pearse Lehane!
Festival Alum, Filmmaking ATLFS Marketing 8/29/18 Festival Alum, Filmmaking ATLFS Marketing 8/29/18

Congratulations Are in Order for ATLFF Screenplay Competition Alumni Pearse Lehane!

Two-time alumni ATLFF, Pearse Lehane, recently optioned his 2017 ATLFF Feature Screenplay Winner The Lean to a producer he met through the new screenwriting website Coverfly.

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ATLFF Alum Molly Coffee's KAYLEE AGE 8 is Coming!
Festival Alum, Filmmaker In Residence ATLFS Marketing 7/30/18 Festival Alum, Filmmaker In Residence ATLFS Marketing 7/30/18

ATLFF Alum Molly Coffee's KAYLEE AGE 8 is Coming!

Filmmaker-In-Residence/2018 Screenplay Competition Semifinalist, Molly Coffee has come back to bring the world yet another impactful story coupled with amazing production design.

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2018 ATLFF Pilot Screenplay Winner Jonathan Mason's Film ENTROPIA Needs You!
Festival Alum ATLFS Marketing 7/17/18 Festival Alum ATLFS Marketing 7/17/18

2018 ATLFF Pilot Screenplay Winner Jonathan Mason's Film ENTROPIA Needs You!

Entropia is a short musically-themed thriller set in the Polish neighborhood of Philadelphia - Port Richmond - where an immigrant master piano restorer gets embroiled in an insurance scam that tests his sense of Old World integrity.

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Atlanta Film Festival Alums Selected for Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Lab
2018 Festival, Festival Alum ATLFS Marketing 6/5/18 2018 Festival, Festival Alum ATLFS Marketing 6/5/18

Atlanta Film Festival Alums Selected for Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Lab

The Atlanta Film Festival is pleased to congratulate writer/director Eimi Imanishi, with her feature film Doha – The Rising Sun, and Suzanne Andrews Correa, who wrote The Huntress, as they have been selected for Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs, Class of 2018.

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Connor Simpson wins the ATLFF '18 Filmmaker-to-Watch Award for KUDZU!
2018 Festival, Festival Alum 4/14/18 2018 Festival, Festival Alum 4/14/18

Connor Simpson wins the ATLFF '18 Filmmaker-to-Watch Award for KUDZU!

Congratulations to Connor Simpson, director of KUDZU for being chosen by our Backers Jury as the 2018 Atlanta Film Festival Filmmaker-to-Watch! See KUDZU tonight (Saturday, April 14) in "Year of the Carnivore."

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Malcolm Washington is the 2017 ATLFF Filmmaker-to-Watch!
2017 Festival, Festival Alum, Filmmaking, Newsletter 3/29/17 2017 Festival, Festival Alum, Filmmaking, Newsletter 3/29/17

Malcolm Washington is the 2017 ATLFF Filmmaker-to-Watch!

Congratulations to Malcolm Washington, the winner of the 2017 Atlanta Film Festival Filmmaker-to-Watch Award for his film BENNY GOT SHOT.

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Ask an Alum: Jiyoung Lee Yeah!
2017 Festival, Festival Alum, Filmmaking, Fun ATLFS Marketing 10/25/16 2017 Festival, Festival Alum, Filmmaking, Fun ATLFS Marketing 10/25/16

Ask an Alum: Jiyoung Lee Yeah!

We chat with ATLFF mainstay Jiyoung Lee about what ATLFF accomplished for her as a filmmaker, her favorite city haunts, and what she likes to make in lieu of an artistic statement. 

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Ask an Alum: Danielle Deadwyler, a.k.a. Elevate ATL's Didi Xio
2017 Festival, Atlanta Film Society, Fun, Festival Alum, Partner Promotions ATLFS Marketing 10/13/16 2017 Festival, Atlanta Film Society, Fun, Festival Alum, Partner Promotions ATLFS Marketing 10/13/16

Ask an Alum: Danielle Deadwyler, a.k.a. Elevate ATL's Didi Xio

Catch up with the ever-versatile championess of Atlanta to learn more about where to find her work this weekend and what sets Atlanta apart as an arts home.

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