The Columbus Film Office, a division of Visit Columbus GA, today announced the launch of FocusFilmColumbusGA.com, a website serving as an information hub for local business owners and entertainment executives.
Once again, the coronavirus extended its lethal tentacles into the box office in the US and pretty much in every other market.
Nearly 100 business owners and entertainment professionals from Columbus and around the state attended the Focus Film Columbus GA event last week at the River Center for the Performing Arts. The quarterly events connect entertainment professionals, artists and local businesses.
“In addition to bringing worldwide audiences to Georgia again in 2019, we also saw a record-breaking $2.9 billion spent right here in our state – and that is economic development in action,” said GDEcD Chief Operating Officer Bert Brantley.
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Now in its fourth decade, the Atlanta Film Festival—one of only two-dozen Academy Award qualifying festivals in the U.S. – is the area’s preeminent celebration of cinema.
Melissa Sanders is the CEO of Tadpole Communications and part of the Georgia Entertainment PR Alliance. She talks to us about the integration of entertainment and how gaming, music and film collided in Georgia.
Drew Sawyer is CEO of Moonshine Post, a leading post production company based in Atlanta Georgia. Recently he spoke with us about connecting and collaborating with other professionals at events like the Georgia Entertainment 100 events.
The Atlanta Film Festival is honored to announce the Finalists in the 2020 Screenplay Competition. Chosen from just shy of 1,300 submissions, these screenplays represent those moving forward from our feature film, television pilot, and short film categories.
I spend the time in-between projects building my equipment and services company, The Savannah Location Company, developing content as a writer/producer, and working with students in our local schools as a certified special educator.