The Atlanta Film Festival was named one of MovieMaker Magazine's 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2024!
It’s with great pleasure and honor that MovieMaker Magazine has again named the Atlanta Film Festival one of the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2024!
This is what MovieMaker Magazine had to say about ATLFF:
“One of America’s longest-running film festivals — celebrating its 48th annual edition this year — provides top-notch hospitality to fans and filmmakers alike. Besides providing a generous travel package to invited moviemakers, it also welcomes top distributors like Amazon MGM Studios and A24, and a massive prize package totaling more than $100,000. (Most is from a best cinematography prize that is accompanied by roughly $90,000 in camera and post/equipment rental services.) It offers spirited programs that celebrate DIY audacity: One of its Southeast premieres last year was Hundreds of Beavers, director Mike Cheslik’s cartoonish, black-and-white fever dream about an applejack salesman and aspiring fur trapper who must do battle with… the things in the title. There’s also a strong emphasis on helping filmmakers advance their careers, not only with the respected screenwriting contest, but also through the festival’s Creative Conference, which sets out to add transparency to every part of the creative process. Recent guests have included writer-director-producer Craig Zobel (Mare of Easttown) and his The Hunt director of photography Darran Tiernan, who talked about the working dynamic between directors and DPs. Speakers have also included veterans from Atlanta, The Underground Railroad, The Walking Dead, Stranger Things, and countless other productions with strong Atlanta ties — as well as projects from all over the world. Atlanta is one of several festivals on this list that was also on last year’s list of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, chosen by filmmakers based on their love of the overall festival experience.”
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Thank you, MovieMaker Magazine, and we look forward to seeing you at ATLFF’25!