Last year, Georgia hosted nearly 250 productions — but “host” is the key word. These shows might film in Georgia, but the money, the concept and the above-the-line talent still come largely from Los Angeles or New York.

Georgia film director Fran Burst-Terranella’s first feature film, The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle, was the Opening Night Film at this year’s Milledgeville Film Festival.

The new two-year agreement was reached in the early evening hours of April 20.

After burning nearly $1.5 billion in cash last year, Netflix says that it’s headed back to the debt market for help to pay for its fast-growing content needs as it expands throughout the world.

In the commercial world, it’s not enough to be a great filmmaker. If you want a client to buy your ideas, you’re going to have to sell them.

Currents is a monthly film networking event for teens presented by re:imagine/ ATL and Atlanta Film Society.

Matt McDaniel, a Columbus architectural historian, first documented the untold story in his book “Emigration to Liberia,” where he traced the mass migration of more than 500 freed blacks from the Chattahoochee Valley to Liberia after the Civil War.

LIVING THE DREAM is a British television comedy series about a British family who buys a trailer park in Florida.

“This year, we received 460 submissions from 41 countries from every continent except Antarctica,” said Jeremiah Bennett.

There are plenty of people around west Georgia, too, who remember the days when she used to rattle downtown in a pickup truck, running a farm errand with her flaming red hair bound in a kerchief.