News
October 27, 2023
Georgia Council for the Arts, a strategic arm of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, today announced the recipients of fiscal year 2024 Vibrant Communities and Cultural Facilities grant awards. The Vibrant Communities grant supports a variety of arts programming opportunities throughout the state, and the Cultural Facilities grant supports capital improvements to or construction of buildings to be used for arts programming.
October 26, 2023
TEDx has released a talk by Atlanta storyboard artist Mark Simon, known as the Godfather of Storyboarding, called The Case for Rejecting Your First Draft.
October 26, 2023
Mark Herring, CEO Signature Production Group Southeast, Talks Georgia Incentives and Economic Impact
Mark Herring, Owner of Signature Production Group Southeast, shares insight into Georgia's industry as a production hub.
October 25, 2023
As Georgia poises for the film industry avalanche of business that’s on the horizon with the eventual, inevitable conclusion of the SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP strike, the Georgia Unscripted roadshow is hitting a crescendo of its own and closing in on its final three information packed film and creative arts events of the year.
October 25, 2023
The completion of Phase One of the backlot is part of a landmark 11-acre, three-phase expansion, making it the largest, most comprehensive film studio complex at any university in the country.
October 25, 2023
“Wildcat” is an unconventional biopic film with deep Georgia connections to Savannah-born novelist O'Connor as she struggles to publish her first novel. Hawke selected RIFF for the film’s Southern premiere (only the second U.S. screening) because of the festival’s broader mission to promote literacy in Georgia and to help celebrate its 20th anniversary.
October 25, 2023
Director of the Georgia Film Office Lee Thomas talks about all of the exciting things happening with Georgia's film industry and how it impacts small businesses across the State.
October 25, 2023
The Development Authority of Fulton County (DAFC) board voted 6-2 in favor of the deal. But members clashed over impacts to county schools and the fact that about half the tax incentive will come from the school system.
October 24, 2023
Leanna Adams plays a washed-up child star hiding in her sister’s house for the holidays after a career-ending mishap when she discovers an injured stuntman dog-sitting, who refuses to leave. Holiday hijinks ensue as they attempt to kick each other out.
October 23, 2023
As editorial content created by AI language models like ChatGPT begin to fill the internet—often to the dismay of the very human editors that work on these websites—lots and lots of errors are coming with them.


