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Award-winning filmmaker, nonprofit leader and longtime LGBTQ+ advocate joins Atlanta’s Oscar®-Qualifying LGBTQ+ Film Festival as nonprofit prepares for its 39th annual 11-Day Event, Sept. 24-Oct. 4
Most people think of Atlanta’s airport as a place to pass through. They hurry from parking lots to terminals, from security checkpoints to departure gates, often unaware that beyond the runways exists one of Georgia’s most dynamic economic districts. Yet the area surrounding Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has evolved into far more than transportation infrastructure.
Georgia Entertainment returns to Toronto this September with From Story to Scale, a slate of strategic gatherings and engagements during the 51st Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 10-20, 2026. The series returns for a second year.
The four-day festival brings more than 100 indie films from 14 countries, industry panels, and the high-stakes 100-Hour Film Race to the historic Strand Theatre this August.
The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) announces a new Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in music production, launching at SCAD Atlanta in Fall 2026.
Last year’s event drew a capacity crowd of finance executives, legal experts, accounting professionals and filmmakers for an afternoon of networking and cross-coast conversation.
World Premieres include: Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky, Sue Kim’s Always Lalisa, John Madden’s Onwards and Sideways, Hans Petter Moland’s Growth of the Soil, Chris Rock’s Misty Green, Yeon Sang-ho’s Paradise Lost and Mina Shum’s Whatcha Want
Produced by WW/SF Entertainment together with brothers Jake and Conor Allyn, “Clean Hands” made its world premiere at the 2026 Tribeca Festival on June 7 at Village East by Angelika in New York. Within days, it landed a North American distribution deal with Vertical.
Why the next chapter of Georgia’s economic growth may depend less on attracting companies and more on becoming the place where ideas, intellectual property and innovation can live.
It’s an indie world in 2026. So if your budget is tight and your team is lean, you can still tell a big story. And you can find excellent, small studios to help you do it, ones with professional services from which you can pick and choose.