BROWSING: NEWS
In addition to raising over $40,000 for the cause, most of the 250 attendees, including representatives from Turner and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, made a commitment to mentor, host job shadows or internships, or speak at schools across Atlanta to expose high school students to careers in the film and media industry.
“So many of my friends that I met through Dragon Con are working in the film industry here in Atlanta because when it started to grow, they were looking for people who could make costumes and do makeup, so Dragon Con was a great breeding ground for that.”
As the film industry and landscape changes in Georgia, students are realizing they don’t have to move to New York or Los Angeles to be successful in film. “Now we have Georgia natives who are realizing they can stay at home and do what they love.”
Kennesaw State has become the new home for The Georgia News Lab, an investigative reporting collaborative that has received multiple awards for the training of young investigative journalists.
Beyond receiving instruction and how-to advice in each class, students will roll up their sleeves and collaborate with the instructor and each other with creative brainstorms, process and content critiques and real-time discussion following in-class viewing of movie examples.
Theater owner Michael Furlinger announced in a statement that the theater will be sold next month to Atlanta Film Society executive director Christopher Escobar.
The TWC ghost-hunting team has built its reputation on doing thorough, professional investigations of such reported sightings, and they followed that template in Savannah.
Unlike the rest of the convention, the Dragon Con parade is 100 percent free to watch.
Texas floods and the Mayweather – McGregor super fight did their part to eat into viewership for what was already a lackluster offering of new films. While these factors may explain this weekend’s drop, earnings for August are down 15% compared to last year, and the year to date is 5% off of 2016.
As many production companies don’t call Georgia home and have little tax consequence here, those film credits may be sold for 60-95 cents on the dollar to wealthy Georgians with significant tax liabilities, or bundled and sold as a tax shelter to larger groups of smaller taxpayers.