Alumni News
ATLFF Alum and 2017 Georgia Film Award winner (BORN RIVER BYE) Tim Hall is back with another southern homegrown feature. Hall currently is raising funds for his third feature, LANDLOCKED which he is shooting locally in Smyrna and St. Simons.
Two-time alumni ATLFF, Pearse Lehane, recently optioned his 2017 ATLFF Feature Screenplay Winner The Lean to a producer he met through the new screenwriting website Coverfly.
Filmmaker-In-Residence/2018 Screenplay Competition Semifinalist, Molly Coffee has come back to bring the world yet another impactful story coupled with amazing production design.
Entropia is a short musically-themed thriller set in the Polish neighborhood of Philadelphia - Port Richmond - where an immigrant master piano restorer gets embroiled in an insurance scam that tests his sense of Old World integrity.
The Atlanta Film Festival is pleased to congratulate writer/director Eimi Imanishi, with her feature film Doha – The Rising Sun, and Suzanne Andrews Correa, who wrote The Huntress, as they have been selected for Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs, Class of 2018.
Congratulations to Connor Simpson, director of KUDZU for being chosen by our Backers Jury as the 2018 Atlanta Film Festival Filmmaker-to-Watch! See KUDZU tonight (Saturday, April 14) in "Year of the Carnivore."
Official selections from each category of programming released for ATLFF '18, including six films from alumni, two Georgia-lensed works and five films from New Mavericks.
Congratulations to Malcolm Washington, the winner of the 2017 Atlanta Film Festival Filmmaker-to-Watch Award for his film BENNY GOT SHOT.
We are excited to reveal the lineup of feature film and short film programming for the 41st annual ATLFF... and there's even more to come!
We are so excited to share the lineup of our 2017 Creative Conference, Special Presentations, Creative Media (VR, Music Videos and Episodic Pilots) and Marquee film series!
Alumni Crowdfunding Campaigns
Landlocked
Meeting the overwhelming need for more Southern films, LANDLOCKED is the story of a son who struggles to accept his transgender father as the two reunite for a road trip across the South.
Kaylee Age 8
After 2 years of development, a community is banding together to tell the magical realism journey of an 8 year old girl with autism and her odyssey to spread her mom's ashes to turn her into a mermaid.
The New Orleans Sazerac
To make the perfect Sazerac combine one part technique, one part interpretation, and a dash of folklore.