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Creative Director of the Rome International Film Festival, Seth Ingram, shares what 20 years of RIFF has looked like.

When you look at Creative Economies closely, it becomes clear that the Film and Television Industry is pivotal in their success. Film and Television draw indirectly from a myriad of related creative industries, such as graphic design, fashion, culinary and music.

A quartet of upcoming conference performances by ensembles in the Joyce and Henry Schwob School of Music will place Columbus State University students center stage nationally and internationally. Performances of this caliber spotlight the school’s strengths while developing students’ musical interests and talents.

Universal/Blumhouse’s big screen version of nine-year-old videogame Five Nights at Freddy’s has hit an unprecedented $78M opening, $4.4M shy of what Uni wowed with earlier this summer in firing up Oppenheimer ($82.4M).

Municipalities are building broadcast studios at recreation complexes for little league ball games - funded by tax payers, organizations everywhere are building mini-studios, small franchised studios are being sold, podcast studios are a given at high schools, cyc walls are rampant, custom sets for banks, hospital rooms, bars are everywhere. Because content will be created, stories must be told.

Atlanta is the innovation hub for Black entrepreneurs, business leaders and creators, and serves as the number one Black entrepreneurial center and start ecosystem that convenes the world’s most innovative leaders who are changing business, culture and society.

Randy Davidson, President of Georgia Entertainment, was recently interviewed by Rome Business Radio along with Seth Ingram of the Rome International Film Festival. The interview comes ahead of the Georgia Unscripted Roadshow event to be held on November 2nd at the Desoto Theatre.

As the number of productions has grown, so has the infrastructure to support it. According to an April 2023 report by FilmLA Research, Georgia already had 3 million square feet of soundstage space by the end of 2021 — up from 2 million a year earlier — including Trilith Studios (formerly Pinewood Atlanta) and EU/Screen Gems Studios.

The studios have warned that next year’s summer blockbusters could be postponed, and TV shows could be canceled, if no deal is reached in the coming week.

The state-funded $42 million project included a new three-story building for Computer Information Systems, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies programs; renovation of existing structures, including Building 100, the One-Stop Enrollment Center, the Library, the Student Life Center, and new chemistry and physics labs that support health sciences.