2014 ATLFF Jury Award Winners Announced!
This morning at the Atlanta Film Festival Awards Brunch, filmmakers, jurors, sponsors, and festival friends from around the world gathered to celebrate all of the nominees and to discover who won the juried awards at this year's festival.
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ATLFF 2014 Interactive Schedule Now Live
If you're the kind of person who likes to have a battle plan of events for the weekend, our new interactive schedule will really scratch that organizer's itch.
Backers Jury gives 2014 ATLFF Filmmaker to Watch Award to "The Bravest, The Boldest"
The polls are closed, the votes have been tallied, and the backers jury has decided: Moon Molson's: The Bravest, The Boldest is the winner of the 2014 ATLFF Filmmaker To Watch Award. As part of the award, Molson will receive a travel stipend to come to Atlanta and accept the award at the Awards Brunch on Saturday April 5.
Journalists: apply for ATLFF press credentials now
Journalists, bloggers, film critics, writerly-types -- thinking about covering the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival? Apply for credentials on our Press Page.
Georgia filmmaking community remembers Sarah Jones
If you're at all connected to the filmmaking industry in the South -- or filmmaking in general -- you've probably already heard of "Slates for Sarah," a social media tribute to the late Sarah Elizabeth Jones. Jones, a Camera Assistant who lived in Atlanta, was in Savannah earlier this month working on the set of Midnight Rider when she was struck and killed by a train. Online recollections from her colleagues and friends in the South and around the world echo the remembrances sent to us here at the Festival from locals who knew her and worked with her.
Opening and Closing Night Films Announced
The 38th Annual Atlanta Film Festival will open with "Joe," starring Nicolas Cage as an ex-con and unlikely role model who meets a 15-year-old boy (Tye Sheridan) and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin. Director David Gordon Green ("Pineapple Express," television's "Eastbound & Down") is scheduled to attend. Closing out this year’s fest is "The Double," a stylish black comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. Eisenberg plays Simon James, a timid man living an isolated existence in an indifferent world until his exact physical double and opposite personality arrives in the form of new co-worker, James Simon. "The Double" is directed by cult favorite Richard Ayoade ("Submarine," television’s “The IT Crowd").
A man, his pug, and ATLFF encourage you to see "Cinema Six"
ATLFF 2013 selection Cinema Six (a raunchy comedy about what happens when you work for too long at a movie theater) is now available on iTunes and other home video sites. Co-writer/director Mark Potts sends this video reminiscence of his time at the Atlanta Film Festival and what we're pretty sure is a description of a detour he took to the Clermont Lounge.
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