The polls are closed, the votes have been tallied, and the backers jury has decided: Moon Molson's: The Bravest, The Boldest is the winner of the 2014 ATLFF Filmmaker To Watch Award. As part of the award, Molson will receive a travel stipend to come to Atlanta and accept the award at the Awards Brunch on Saturday April 5.

In addition to over 50 feature films, 11 short film blocks and over a dozen special presentations, the Atlanta Film Festival is also home to a highly buzzed music video competition.

After weeks of teasing you with waves of narrative features, documentary features, short films and special presentations, we can now fully reveal the complete lineup of the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival!

Tickets are now on sale for the previously announced films! Don't wait any longer to buy your tickets to the first 15 narrative features, the first 15 documentary features, our short film blocks and our opening and closing night films.

Journalists, bloggers, film critics, writerly-types -- thinking about covering the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival? Apply for credentials on our Press Page. 

If you're at all connected to the filmmaking industry in the South -- or filmmaking in general -- you've probably already heard of "Slates for Sarah," a social media tribute to the late Sarah Elizabeth Jones. Jones, a Camera Assistant who lived in Atlanta, was in Savannah earlier this month working on the set of Midnight Rider when she was struck and killed by a train. Online recollections from her colleagues and friends in the South and around the world echo the remembrances sent to us here at the Festival from locals who knew her and worked with her. 

The 38th Annual Atlanta Film Festival will open with "Joe," starring Nicolas Cage as an ex-con and unlikely role model who meets a 15-year-old boy (Tye Sheridan) and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin. Director David Gordon Green ("Pineapple Express," television's "Eastbound & Down") is scheduled to attend. Closing out this year’s fest is "The Double," a stylish black comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. Eisenberg plays Simon James, a timid man living an isolated existence in an indifferent world until his exact physical double and opposite personality arrives in the form of new co-worker, James Simon. "The Double" is directed by cult favorite Richard Ayoade ("Submarine," television’s “The IT Crowd").

Women In Film & Television Atlanta (WIFTA) is hosting its annual Oscar party on Sunday March 2, 2014 at Shout, starting at 6:00p! You're invited.

One of only a handful of Academy Award-qualifying festivals in the United States, the Atlanta Film Festival has long championed short films. For the 2014 event the organization received 2,212 short film submissions, 84 of which will be shown during the festival.

ATLFF 2013 selection Cinema Six (a raunchy comedy about what happens when you work for too long at a movie theater) is now available on iTunes and other home video sites. Co-writer/director Mark Potts sends this video reminiscence of his time at the Atlanta Film Festival and what we're pretty sure is a description of a detour he took to the Clermont Lounge.

Interested in breaking into the Film Business? Learn the ins and outs of being the ideal Production Assistant from local independent producer Linda Burns.

A gripping mix of friendship, violence and redemption erupts in the contemporary South in this adaptation of Larry Brown’s novel, celebrated at once for its grit and its deeply moving core. Director David Gordon Green is scheduled to attend.

HBO is partnering with ATLFF to give guests a sneak preview of GAME OF THRONES. Based on the popular book series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” by George R.R. Martin, this hit Emmy®-winning fantasy series chronicles an epic struggle for power in a vast and violent fantasy kingdom. Watch the first episode from the new season a full week before it airs on HBO, on Sunday April 6! Then join us for a Westeros-themed feast and party after the screening 

Simon James is a ghost. Friends, family, and coworkers meet his every action with complete indifference. He grimly goes through the motions, hoping for recognition that never comes. All of this changes when James Simon arrives. Directed by Richard Ayoade and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska and Wallace Shawn.