It was another record-setting year for revenue generated by Georgia-made film and television productions. Governor Brian Kemp announced in August that film and television industry productions spent $4.4 billion in […]
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Savannah Film Academy brings in EMMY Award-winning producer for a seminar on documentary production
The Savannah Film Academy at Savannah Technical College is hosting an award-winning producer and director who will be offering a two-day intensive seminar on documentary production. The seminar will take […]
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A long-overdue Red Carpet event for Savannah
Local figures for 2018 shattered the record set in 2017.
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Boycotts and Georgia’s Heartbeat Bill
The question our state faces now, however, is whether the passage of Georgia’s ‘heartbeat bill’ may result in a costly boycott by the film and television industry
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The New Documentarians ‘Feed The Hungry’
LAST FALL, when Will Martin and Kareem McMichael were enrolled in the Georgia Film Academy at Savannah Technical College, they needed to find a film set to work on in […]
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The winning trifecta of Soul Proprietors
It’s a simple equation: Three local businesses plus three local charities, divided up amongst three local film crews. The resulting films are ranked, and the winner walks away with a […]
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Bringing up Famke
It’s been 14 years since Famke Janssen was in Savannah, filming The Gingerbread Man with director Robert Altman. (Say it out loud: FAHM–keh YAHn–sen.) A lot has changed since then […]