2018 marks the 37th Annual Savannah Jazz Festival, the Lowcountry’s only entirely free week-long music festival featuring regional, national and international world-class jazz.

This year’s award will be shared by Shay Griffin, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Melissa Goodman and Ric Reitz. This group was instrumental in securing tax credits that have propelled Georgia into a leading position for network television production.

California’s share of overall U.S. film production has dropped by a third, declining from nearly 40 percent in 2007 to just over 26 percent in 2017. Georgia’s has soared from 2 percent of overall U.S. film production to more than 15 percent in 2017.

Beck Media & Marketing, the Santa Monica-based entertainment and technology PR and marketing firm, has established an office in Atlanta, Georgia.

State Representative Terry Rogers (R-Clarkesville) was recently appointed by Governor Nathan Deal to serve as a member of the Georgia Film, Music and Digital Advisory Commission.

On Saturday, June 16, Georgia’s film community will pack Atlanta’s Plaza Theatre for the third annual Women in Production Summit.

Columbus State University students were recently recognized on stage at the Atlanta Film Festival for their work on the production of an award-winning film.

Rising Actress Cassandra Hollis portrays a character based on current Fulton County Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Jan Gorniak, on the upcoming television series, “ATL Homicide,” premiering on the TVOne network on July 9, 2018.

Two of LA and Atlanta’s finest actors, Drew Waters and Erin Bethea, are set to lead an audition intensive weekend for Atlanta actors at Actor Boutique – Atlanta’s premier acting studio owned by Emmy Award Winning Actress Natalia Livingston.

Made 15 years after The Room turned them into cult stars, their irreverent new buddy picture capitalizes on their pop culture personas to craft a satisfyingly strange adventure about a mortician and a homeless man looking to turn their luck around.