A celebration of Columbus’ own legendary blues singer, Ma Rainey, is happening on April 26 in the Fountain City. It’ll be held at the historic Ma Rainey Home on 5th Avenue.
New Mexico has recently approved an increase in their film tax credits. On April 7, Governor Grisham approved portions of an omnibus tax bill that saw increases to many credits including those offered to film and production.
As of 2022, 35 U.S. states offer some form of incentive to the film industry to encourage production activities within their borders. Nonetheless, while various markets enjoyed brief periods of boom, including Arizona and Missouri, few were able to sustain that success – let alone expand upon it.
Red Earth will have its world premiere at the 47th Atlanta Film Festival, to be held at the historic Plaza Theater in Atlanta, April 20-30th. The film will screen as part of the feature film program, where it was nominated for the festival’s ‘Best Cinematography’ award and will screen at the Plaza Theatre on Saturday, April 28 at 10:00pm.
Set in a speakeasy in Atlanta, “Twenty” is a feature documentary about fifteen young people making it through 2020. The film is an observational time capsule that lays bare the raw reflections of a group of people surviving a year that will be seared into our generational memory.
There’s something to be said in favor of the post-credits scene boom, in that it encourages people to actually watch the credits. Those names scrolling by are real people who did their part in creating the art that we all love, everyone should sit and appreciate them.
“The studios need to really demonstrate a lot more results before we can move forward with any further tax credit,” Ting told Variety in an interview on Wednesday. “We may need to wait a year… California provided the money, but they didn’t provide the jobs to a diverse group of Californians.”
“Citadel will become our biggest relocating TV series so far in terms of qualified spending, while a project like True to the Game affirms that our tax credit program also addresses the needs of smaller-scale yet still very impactful TV projects.”
Southern Entertainment, the producers of Carolina Country Music Fest, the Barefoot Country Music Fest and Greenville Country Music Fest, has partnered with TRZ Management and JRM Management Services to bring country music stars to Cobb County.
“A lot of people have asked me over the years why I didn’t take my skills to Atlanta and work with that rich bed of talent there. But if I leave, what would be left in our community? It’s not like there aren’t other places to record in Atlanta. There, I’d have just another studio. I stay to provide a service to the people of southwest Georgia.”