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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.

Georgia Entertainment will bring its Unscripted program to Cartersville on June 24, with Visit Cartersville-Bartow and Savoy Automobile Museum serving as presenting partners. The main event runs from 5 to 8 p.m. at Savoy Automobile Museum, followed by a VIP afterparty from 8 p.m. to midnight at Elevate in downtown Cartersville.

As much as Harris is excited about shooting near (and with) his family and putting other Georgia residents to work in the process, he is encouraged by the positive momentum he’s seeing in the industry following its recent years of hardship. And while this hardship was experienced everywhere, not just in Georgia, Harris is pleased to see the state turning a corner, navigating industry-wide changes and stepping out as a leader.