Atlanta Filmmaker Reveals City's Untold Stories
For this edition of "24 FPS (Frames Per Second)", we hear from local filmmaker Brantly Watts. She is primarily a documentary filmmaker but is now venturing into the fiction film realm.One of her...
View ArticleIn 'SpeakerKiller,' Local Filmmaker Finds Solidarity In His Subject
In the second installment of "24 FPS," we go inside Atlanta's music scene through the camera lens. In film school, filmmaker Greg Harding focused on narrative film (fiction, for those unfamiliar with...
View ArticleWife-Husband Production Team Talk Organic Farming, PTSD And Documentary
When they moved from Los Angeles, California to Atlanta in 2005, Christine Anthony and Owen Masterson couldn’t find much local produce. The farmers market culture of California had yet to take off in...
View ArticleBlood, Guts And Film Festivals
Since graduating from Georgia State's film program in 2009, Mike Morgan has fallen into a world of horror. Independent horror film, that is. Morgan worked on the crew for James Sizemore’s "The Demon’s...
View ArticleAtlanta-Based Filmmakers Inspire With Documentary On The African Children's...
In the 1980s, television stations, magazines and newspapers were covered with images of African children with distended bellies and flies covering their faces. This was the time of Live Aid and...
View ArticleHarmonicas And House Fires In Atlanta Film Festival Selection
In French, one term of endearment is "petit chou," or "little cabbage," which is the namesake of Jen West and James Martin's new narrative short film. "Little Cabbage" centers on Madeline (or Miss...
View ArticleAtlanta Writer Debuts A Rough Family Reconciliation For The Screen
Gabrielle Fulton is first and foremost a writer — everything from film to television to the stage.Her short film, "Ir/Reconcilable," is her debut film as a director. It's also her first...
View Article'Dante's Down The Hatch': Remembering Atlanta's Treasured Pirate Ship
For 43 years, in the landlocked city of Atlanta, there used to be a pirate ship.On July 30, 2013, the pirate ship set sail, so to speak, and no longer welcomed its customers to sit on its many levels,...
View Article‘Big Charity’ Documents Battle Over Hospital’s Closure
Though he has lived in New Orleans for the past 10 years, Alexander Glustrom was born in Atlanta, went to Paideia High School and even had his 13th birthday party at the Plaza Theatre.Therefore, it’s...
View Article20-Year Friendship Inspires New Film On Sickle Cell Anemia
In 1992 in San Diego, ninth grader JaqaiMickelsen met 11th grader Omar Beach. They became life-long friends despite the high school age difference.
View Article90-Year-Old Playwright Bolsters Struggling Town In New Film
Compared to a lot of people in Atlanta's forever-expanding film scene, Jared Callahan is a recent addition to Atlanta independent filmmaking. He moved here last year and spent the last few months of...
View ArticleAtlanta Filmmaker James Sizemore Builds A World Of Monsters
As the film industry booms, it’s almost normal to see synthetic zombies walking down Atlanta streets, fake fur werewolves scampering through fields or goat demons partaking in a witch’s ceremony.
View ArticleSteampunk Web Series Turns Atlanta Into Victorian London
Sometimes, they frolic through Little Five Points, or once a year, you might seem them picnicking at Oakland Cemetery or stomping through Dragon Con. They are the Atlanta-area steampunks, dressed in...
View ArticleAtlanta Filmmaking Duo Rebrands, Takes On Southern Gothic
In sickness and in health, to love and to cherish and to make films together, Ruckus and Lane Skye are a duo in life and in filmmaking. Their films are born out of the great storytelling tradition of...
View ArticleAtlanta Filmmaker Jabbar Thomas Puts The Satire In Sci-Fi
Science fiction is satire. It addresses contemporary problems while staying safely behind a spaceship or an apocalyptic world. For example, along with showing the effects of a totalitarian regime,...
View ArticleGa. Filmmakers Turn Lung Cancer Diagnosis Into Short Film
It was a classic love story. Jonathan Hicks and Robyn Young (now Hicks) met each other nine years ago in film school. Jonathan was pursuing filmmaking, and Robyn was studying acting at the time.They...
View ArticleAtlanta Designer’s 'Micro-mentaries' Explore Creative Process
This week, the design-focused people of the world descend upon Modern Atlanta's Design Expo, architecture tour and talks.Kimberly Binns is one of those design people, but for her, design goes beyond...
View ArticleAtlanta Filmmaker Tells A Vampire Story Without The Vampires
While zombies might be surpassing them as the most popular supernatural beings, vampires are still quite trendy.
View ArticleAtlanta Director Films 'The Greatest Bar Story Ever Told'
Marcus Rosentrater’s documentary film “Limo Ride” is not for the faint of heart.It documents a group of friends' raucous New Year’s Eve, where they hire a limo to do a polar bear dip in Mobile,...
View ArticleAtlanta Filmmaker Experiments With Cameraless Movies
Think of the last film you saw. Maybe you were moved by the story, the characters or the subject. You probably weren’t moved by the actual film stock.That’s not the case for experimental filmmaker...
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