2015 Festival, Fun, Newsletter Lucy Doughty 2015 Festival, Fun, Newsletter Lucy Doughty

Sixteen ATLFF '15 Films Now On Demand!

Look no further for your next movie night selection!

We love when our selections find a wider audience! Whether you missed it at the 2015 festival or saw it, loved it, and want to share it with friends (who must come with you to the 40th annual festival in April), you can now catch sixteen feature films across various platforms like iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, and Vimeo.

Highlights include Blood, Sweat, and Beer, the dynamic craft beer documentary we paired with a sold out afterparty; Breathe (Respire), Mélanie Laurent's dreamy drama and two-time César-award nominee; God Bless the Child, winner of the ATLFF 2015 Narrative Jury Prize; Masculinity/Femininity, Russell Sheaffer's experimental documentary that questions our gender-normative society; and The Sisterhood of Night, the mysterious teen drama that announced our New Mavericks program

And for the first time, you can find the complete list in one place. Bookmark atlantafilmfestival.com/ondemand; we'll update the list as it grows! No more "What should we watch tonight?" Atlanta Film Festival has you covered.

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2015 Festival, Festival Alum, Screening, Newsletter Cameron McAllister 2015 Festival, Festival Alum, Screening, Newsletter Cameron McAllister

ATLFF '15 Best Narrative Feature Winner "God Bless the Child" Hits Theaters and iTunes

Narrative Feature Jury prize-winner from ATLFF '15, "God Bless the Child" gets a week-long run in New York this week and an iTunes release on Tuesday, August 18th!

The 2015 Atlanta Film Festival's Jury Award-winner in the Narrative Feature category was Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian's "God Bless the Child," which premiered at SXSW just days before its bow at ATLFF.

After a strong festival run throughout the spring and summer—where it was in competition at most, if not all, festivals—"God Bless the Child" is now receiving a theatrical release in New York City and will be released on iTunes on Tuesday, August 18th.

In "God Bless the Child," an often overwhelmed teenager (Harper Graham) tends to the needs of her four younger brothers, all of whom spend the day challenging each other in games of strength and burgeoning masculinity. All the while, Hannah is searching and waiting for the parent who is missing in action. Deftly walking the tightrope between documentary and narrative filmmaking, "God Bless the Child" gives us a keenly real sense of the joys, and the burden, of raising a family with little support financially or emotionally.

Click here for more information about the Independent Filmmaker Project's (IFP) week-long run of "God Bless the Child" at Made in NY Media Center by IFP. Make sure you pre-order the film on iTunes, or check it out on August 18th!

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