Indie

Georgia should be asking what it can do to encourage independent documentary filmmakers, develop documentary projects, connect emerging filmmakers with experienced professionals and create more opportunities for documentary films to reach audiences.

Documentary filmmaking is an art form, a public service and a powerful way for communities to examine themselves. As the film industry evolves, Georgia has an opportunity to invest in the filmmakers who tell the stories that help us understand who we are.

Annie Davis never saw herself making superhero movies. Instead, from a young age, she always wanted to be the next Robert Osborne, the host of Turner Classic Movies. 

Atlanta-based WW/SF Entertainment has two true stories in motion this fall. Producers James Suttles and Jason Winn are in production on "The Girl Who Disappeared," a Lifetime film shooting in metro Atlanta, and the company's Tribeca Festival premiere "Clean Hands" opens in theaters Friday.

Little Owen Productions announced today that "B-27," a 10-minute psychological thriller written and directed by Lauren Spaulding, has been selected for the 23rd annual Rome International Film Festival, running Nov. 5-8 in downtown Rome, Ga.

The music industry is building the infrastructure it needs to navigate AI. Independent artists deserve the same investment in their side of the equation. Detection is infrastructure. And right now, the artists who need protection the most are the ones least equipped to access it.

Over September 23 and 24, Discover Dunwoody hosted the Above & Beyond FAM Tour — a two-day program for a dozen invited producers, directors, location and travel managers, and creative executives with near-term projects. Collectively, their credits represent more than $100 million in production spend.

On Sept. 23, Georgia Entertainment and Universal Production Services, with Discover Dunwoody, presented the inaugural Indie Spotlight inside The Jewel Box at Assembly Studios. The evening brought together independent filmmakers, studio leadership and industry partners for a program focused on the creators driving Georgia's independent work. 

Developed as a thesis project through the SCAD MFA program in Savannah and made with a Georgia-based cast and crew that grew to 83 people, anchored by an almost entirely female senior producing team, the film recreates a chapter of World War II aviation history with vintage aircraft drawn from Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Flight collection.

Zach Braff and Esther McGregor play a police officer working to get drugs off the street and his addicted daughter in their haunting new movie, Clean Hands.