Creative Industry Connect offers an exclusive evening of conversation and celebration, bringing together decision makers, innovators and community leaders to advance collaboration across the creative industries.
Creative Industry Connect offers an exclusive evening of conversation and celebration, bringing together decision makers, innovators and community leaders to advance collaboration across the creative industries.
By dedicating a month to IP awareness, Georgia is sending a clear message: protecting creativity is essential to sustaining and growing the industries that make us a global entertainment powerhouse.
Under the three-year agreement, Hanna Brothers will provide all food and beverage services at Trilith LIVE, including concessions for concerts and family shows, and catering for live productions, conventions, meetings, and social events.
Georgia Entertainment’s Carol Badaracco Padgett is in London as part of her annual arts pilgrimage, and one highlight was attending Stranger Things: The First Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End.
This year’s honorees will participate in awards presentations, moderated conversations, and master classes with SCAD students, offering a unique opportunity to connect with some of the most celebrated individuals working in the entertainment industry.
Combined with state incentives, local infrastructure and a festival that puts them side by side with Disney legends and blockbuster franchises, Georgia is quickly becoming a breeding ground for the next generation of animation.
Georgia Entertainment will host an invite-only VIP Social Mixer on October 23 immediately following the State of the Industry Summit at Trilith Studios, one of Georgia’s most significant annual gatherings for leaders in film, media and entertainment.
Last week in Savannah, I had the opportunity to engage in three important gatherings that together show how entertainment, tourism and policy are shaping Georgia’s future. Being there recharged me, with friends and colleagues rallying around jobs, economic development and the vital role of the creative industries.
Jason Drakeford is a professor of practice at Georgia State University’s Creative Media Industries Institute where he has spent the last six years utilizing his knowledge of the film industry to teach advanced courses that help strengthen connections between arts and media students and the region’s creative industries.
At the time, I was a little bummed to go to Atlanta because I was hoping for a grey, cold movie, and Atlanta is the hot South. I was like, ‘Well, I want this to look like Prisoners,’ then I found out they shot Prisoners in Atlanta. We had to do some scouting, and I ended up finding these locations that perfectly suited the story. I hit the jackpot with my crew. The crews in Atlanta were the most lovely, skilled, joyful people.