Bartow County has emerged as a destination for film production and creative economy growth in Georgia. The Film Bartow brand signals the region’s deliberate push into film, gaming, entertainment, technology and innovation.
Georgia Entertainment will bring Savannah Spotlight: Entertainment Amplified to the coast on Tuesday, July 14, with the Savannah Regional Film Commission serving as the presenting partner. The event is from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Old Savannah Distillery and will convene entertainment executives, creators and leaders from across the state and the region for a night of networking and conversation.
The film features Olivia Scott Welch, best known for her role in Netflix’s hit Fear Street trilogy. Her additional credits include Netflix’s Unbelievable, AMC’s Lucky Hank, and Amazon’s Panic.
LaGrange, Georgia, is emerging as one of the Southeast’s more quietly effective tourism success stories, blending heritage, outdoor recreation, family attractions, entertainment and cultural experiences into a visitor economy that continues to expand in scale and sophistication.
From a sharp, instinctive ear in her formative years to where Honnie Korngold is now, CEO and founder of CineVantage Productions in Athens, Georgia, founder of Georgia StoryLab, and co-founder of PhilanthroFilms, her work has pointed toward one conviction: that music and sound are not background to a story but part of how the story is told.
Different city, different festival, same themes. Innovation, funding, technology and intellectual property. These are the topics we watched dominate Cannes, Sundance and SXSW earlier this year. It all comes back to storytelling and who controls it.
The worlds of live sports and media entertainment are fused so tightly that it’s difficult to distinguish a crack in the curtain. And now, in a convergence some audiences didn’t see coming, live musical theater has shot onto our screens like a pole vault or a pirouette.
We sat down with Elisee Junior St. Preux to talk about “The Tropic Sun and His Eyes,” an official Tribeca Festival selection and the first mental health narrative film shot entirely on land in Haiti. The Atlanta-based filmmaker drew from personal loss to craft a story about estranged fathers and sons, and the generational trauma that keeps them apart.
Kueffner received Silver Telly Awards for “The Christmas Writer” and “Masked” along with a Bronze Telly Award for “Unknown Caller,” further highlighting his work across drama, suspense and genre storytelling.
If you don’t think of art and culture when you think of Cartersville, Georgia, then you haven’t let the town entertain you for a while.