Now in its 14th year, the Atlanta-based BronzeLens Film Festival begins August 23 and runs through August 27. In addition to its prime mission of showcasing BIPOC-created and focused content from around the world, the Oscars short film-qualifying event will pay homage to the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild – American Federation…
Georgia is a major force in the film production industry, alongside Los Angeles and New York, and any big-picture look at the SAG-AFTRA strike warrants a closer examination of nuances from a Georgia angle. While nationwide solidarity is key — of supreme importance, actually — geography adds its own twists and turns to the strike….
Set aside the term “Hollywood of the South.” Atlanta — and Georgia on a larger scale — is an entertainment hub with a flavor all its own, bolstered by some of the industry’s most creative thinkers in film. Here, five notable Atlanta-based film industry professionals share their perspectives on what the future looks like for…
So many times in life, good fortune springs from situations that may at first appear dire. About five years ago, this was the case for actress Chantal Maurice, known for her roles in the TV series Grey’s Anatomy, Dynasty, Blue Bloods and others. A bad car accident in Barbados in 2018 pulled Maurice out of…
Supervising colorist Keith Roush of Roush Media is a film industry veteran with personal vision. He started his business in 2003 in Burbank — when digital color grading systems didn’t exist — yet he was professionally poised for the technology’s availability in 2005. Today, Roush is leading another type of change that will have a…
A 10-minute opera hits a rolling boil right before the timer goes off. “We believe in pressure; it does something to creativity,” says Tomer Zvulun, regarding the company’s second annual 96-Hour Opera Project. “The enemy of art is unlimited resources and time,” he says. Zvulun is executive producer of The 96-Hour Opera Project and its documentary…
Riley Wu was just 14 when the screenplay for the feature film When Poet Paint the Rain was complete. It took about a month. “The phrase is grammatically incorrect, but at the time [on a rainy day], with my half-spoken English, it sounded very right to me,” Wu says of the work’s title. In 2019,…
What do you get when you cross a celebrity fitness trainer and a Walking Dead series producer in an Atlanta farmers market? If their daughters are school friends who make a beeline for one another, you get conversation about film, fitness, time constraints and the need for personal accountability to hold it all together. Then,…
“Filming in the stadium was insane — in the place where the football players run onto the field,” Los Angeles-based actor Abigail Killmeier — also known as Abigail Fierce, songwriter-singer — says about filming Fantasy Football, in which she plays tough girl Margot, friend of the young lead character. A Paramount+ original movie produced in…
When Zhubin Parang talks about the significance of Atlanta in the nation’s zeitgeist, you listen — and you smile. The comedy writer and performer, onetime New York City lawyer and current supervising producer and writer of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is clearly jazzed about the show’s presence in Atlanta to film at The…
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