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The community is encouraged to come out for the screening and to learn more about the weekend’s events. The festival has moved to Valdosta State’s North Campus across from the South Georgia Medical Center. With screenings and visiting filmmaker panels, there’s a full schedule of activities all weekend long.
According to reports from the Georgia Film Office on March 5, 2025, there are currently 25 productions filming across the state. Among them, the following projects are either in production or soon to begin on the sound stages and backlots of Dunwoody’s neighboring Assembly Studios.
Beginning Thursday evening at the Turner Arts Center, the 2025 South Georgia Film Festival will hold its free preview night will full trailers and screening of a locally produced documentary. This year, Dr. Willie Housel and director Mark George will present their documentary “Pinevale High: Separate, Unequal, … Undeterred” and then talk with Professor Jason Brown before taking questions from the community.
The Entertainment Tourism Alliance of Georgia (ETAG) held its first Entertainment Tourism Day at the Georgia State Capitol on Friday, Feb. 28, bringing together diverse industries to highlight the impact of entertainment tourism.
Twenty-three Academy Award-nominated films, and 7 out of the 10 best picture nominees were screened or featured at the 2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival. In addition, 26 of the film festival’s honorees, panelists, and guests subsequently received Oscar nominations.
Each month we bring you a list of ongoing productions in Georgia. This information is provided by Georgia.org and reproduced by Georgia Entertainment to bring you the latest, verified, productions.
Jonathan Harb, founder of Whiskytree a leading visual effects company, highlights the benefits of Georgia’s incentive program and advocates for a stand-alone post-production incentive to further strengthen the industry.
2025 has clicked past $1.08 billion (in fact it did last weekend), +11% over the same Jan. 1-March 2 frame a year ago, but this weekend is now coming in at $53.3M per Comscore, which would make it the lowest frame of the year to date, under Super Bowl
Adapting true crime stories into compelling limited series can capture massive audiences, particularly when the fiction stays rooted in reality. But when a show profits from someone’s real-life story, do the creators have an obligation to give back to the individuals and communities behind those narratives?
Spiegelman, a renowned artist with the New Yorker, TOPPS, and many 1960’s underground comics, is the only graphic novelist to receive the Pulitzer Prize. His work, MAUS: A SUVIVOR’S TALE, retells his father’s time as a Jewish prisoner during the Holocaust with the characters depicted as animals, particularly mice, cats and dogs.