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The state currently offers up to a 25% tax credit or cash rebate on money spent by productions in the state, with the program capped at about $8 million each year. The program is considered conservative compared to other states such as Illinois and Georgia with larger breaks and no cap.
A key stop on the Oscar festival circuit, the SCAD Savannah Film Festival will screen a total of 159 films, including 35 narrative films, 15 documentary films and 109 shorts, more than any year before.
The forthcoming debate is also slated to be moderated by four women, according to MSNBC, including Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Ashley Parker and NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker.
Designed to reflect today’s dynamic entertainment industry, the new space includes a state-of-the-art theater with expanded seating capacity, an elegant event venue with floor-to-ceiling windows, and a museum-style exhibit featuring props, costumes, and memorabilia from iconic films and television shows.
As Georgia continues its growth in the film and entertainment industry, more creative talent outside of the Atlanta “Loop” has gotten involved in the business of making movies.
“It’s the secret sauce of the Georgia Film Academy,” Levy said. “If you do well — and we know most of our students who embrace training do well — they will get picked up for another gig and their film career will begin.”
The intent of the EDDA is to preserve the building as a theatre, improve the exterior appearance, renovate the facility with modern comforts and cinematic technology, and operate as a single screen theatre with the ability to play movies both new and old.
It was important to us that our movie look like “Anywhere U.S.A” and we didn’t want to shoot in LA and have palm trees sticking out everywhere. But while looking at different cities and towns in Georgia (Savannah and Augusta specifically), none felt right. They felt so Southern!
Beginning January 2020, Gwinnett Tech will debut the Mechatronics program to serve advanced manufacturing companies in Gwinnett and North Fulton counties, as well as, enter into a joint partnership with the Georgia Film Academy for a production assistant certificate program to be taught at the OFS site in Norcross, Georgia.
Local nonprofit Georgia STAND-UP is offering “We Show Up,” a four-week workforce development program focused on creating skilled workers for Georgia’s film and television industry.