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Updated: March 14th, 2023
Table of Contents
Recurring Events
Networking
Also see Facebook Groups.
Film Bar Monday
Since August of 2014, Film Bar Mondays has been bringing the film community together every week to connect, relax, and welcome folks new to the local film scene. It’s FREE. Open to everyone. And we never skip a Monday.
No Business Cards. No Headshots. No Desperation. Just drinking, conversation and community.
Every Monday at a series of rotating bars
Eat, Drink, & B-Indie
Join us the third Tuesday of every month from 7:30pm – 9:30pm at Manuel’s Tavern (602 N Highland Avenue Northeast) for Eat, Drink & B-Indie—a casual evening of networking, panel discussions, guest speakers, new equipment demos and more. Get there early as space is limited.
Third Tuesday of every month
Film Pitch ATL
Film Pitch ATL is Atlanta’s best networking event for the film industry. Watch 3 filmmakers pitch their upcoming projects to our panel of experts!
Panelists offer their feedback after each pitch and there is an audience Q&A after so you can ask these professionals your questions about the industry.
Join us for the evening if you’re a potential investor, actor, above or below the line crew, film business professional, film enthusiast, or just curious to learn more about the ATL film scene.
Last Wednesday of every month
Atlanta Film Production Group Meetup
AFPG is here as a resource for the community to network, troubleshoot, ask questions, find locations, crew up. etc. Our goal is to build a strong and thriving community, so everyone needs to remember that you only get what you put into it. Everyone here is valuable and essential to making the group what it is.
Monthly
Screenings
Indie Film Night at The Strand
Film festivals are a great way to see a different crop of movies than the ones playing at the multiplex. Indie Film Night at The Strand is like a bite-sized film festival every month, serving up an eclectic selection of both short and feature-length independent films from local filmmakers and beyond. Presented by the Cobb International Film Festival
Second Wednesday of every Month (January – June)
Flix and Drinks
Free screening event of local short films, music videos, trailers and more. Held at the Star Community Bar. Hosted by Mikhail Tot (Misha)
Audio Video Club
A Projector & Screen – dedicated to the exploration of sound and visuals through events, exhibits, and workshops.
Competitions
48 Hour Film Project
Late Spring
168 Film Project
Film Racing
100 Hour Film Race – December
72 Hour Horror Film Race – March
24 Hour Film Race – June
Festivals
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
Our mission is to inspire diverse communities to new levels of social and cultural understanding by showcasing entertaining and thought-provoking Jewish film.
February
Renegade Film Fest
The Renegade film festival is built on elevating marginalized voices. Fostering a sense of community and empowering one another to create. We are proud to showcase diverse content and promote inclusion & visibility in order to bring balance and equality to independent cinema.
March
Atlanta Film Festival
Now in its fourth decade, the Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF)—one of only two-dozen Academy Award® qualifying festivals in the U.S.—is the area’s preeminent celebration of cinema. ATLFF is one of the largest and longest-running festivals in the country, welcoming an audience of over 28,000 to discover hundreds of new independent, international, animated, documentary, and short films, selected from 8000+ submissions from all over the world. It is also the most distinguished event in its class, recognized as Best Film Festival by Creative Loafing, Sunday Paper, 10Best, and Atlanta Magazine.
April
Peaberry Film Festival
Peaberry Film Festival, a continuation of the Etowah Film Festival, which ran for three years at the Canton Theatre. PFF will screen local and international films, connecting filmmakers and audiences. Sponsored by the City of Canton, the festival will also connect filmmakers to the government resources available to them – specifically as it pertains to location scouting.
April
Cobb International Film Fest
Held in the Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre on beautiful Marietta Square in Marietta, Georgia each year, this festival is a meeting place for filmmakers and people who are interested in the world in all its variety and different approaches to life. The festival offers filmmakers a platform to introduce their work and discuss topics shown in the film as well as the filmmaking process to encourage and create dialogue between people.
August
Organizations
Georgia Film Office
The official Film Office for the State of Georgia.
Atlanta Film Society
Positioned at the intersection of art, culture and commerce, the Atlanta Film Society brings meaning to the moving image by championing the shared community experience, fostering the free exchange of ideas, and nurturing the development of a thriving industry.
Film Impact Georgia
Film Impact Georgia wants to support those Georgia Filmmakers who have something to say. To share. Who will enrich our state’s culture with their creativity and participation, and need support accomplishing that. We want to ensure they are an integral part of the growth and change happening around us, as creators and as unapologetically as leaders.Since 2019, Film Impact Georgia has awarded $30,000 in grants across 6 cycles.
Kodak Film Lab Atlanta
The KODAK Film Lab Atlanta offers comprehensive color negative processing services for motion picture film. Our lab houses a ECN2 processing machine that can handle over 48,000 feet every 10 hours. Using Kodak’s pre-mixed chemistry, we run day baths Monday through Friday and on weekends by arrangement.
We also offer 2K, 4K and now 6.5K High Resolution Film Scans for 16mm and 35mm
Cinema Life
Cinema Life operates an expanding collective of film festivals hyper-focused on the independent filmmaker, valuing creative expression through film and writing above all else.
ATL Film Party
ATLFILMPARTY, LLC is a free local film competition and industry networking event with a goal of transforming ATL’s film industry into a real a$$ community that is accessible to all.
Audio Visual Club
A Projector & Screen – dedicated to the exploration of sound and visuals through events, exhibits, and workshops.
Videodrome
Old-school video rental shop stocking indy, obscure & cult films, plus the latest feature movies on Blu-ray and DVD.
Local Theaters
The Plaza Theater
The Tara
Landmark Midtown Art Cinema
The Strand
Facebook Groups
Atlanta Film Production Group
First Friday Filmmakers
Paid Only Georgia Film Crew
Film Production Group
Atlanta Editors Collective
Equipment Rental Houses
PC&E
PC&E is a full service rental company in Atlanta offering Camera Rental, Lighting and Grip, Soundstages, and Sales and Expendables.
COMMANDER
COMMANDER is a full service motion picture equipment rental company. Our staff can assist with your requirements for CAMERA, UNDERWATER + G&E equipment. COMMANDER is crew-centric and owned by an International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600 member.
Cinder Lighting & Grip
Quixote
Cinelease
Sound Stage Studios
Trillith
Screen Gems
Tyler Perry Studios
Additional Vendors
RJR Props
Prop Rentals and Movie Props for Feature Film, Television, Commercials, Music Video, Corporate Video, Events & Advertising. We provide Medical Props, Hospital Rooms, Doctor’s Office, Airplanes, Helicopters, Cockpits, Exotic Electronics, Control Panels and Large Industrial Electronics. Computers & Servers: from 1958 to ultra modern.
C and C Movie Studio
We are a multimedia movie film studio. We offer 20+ customizable film sets. We can tailor our sets to meet your filming needs.
Mann Robinson Studios
Peerspace
Peer-to-peer location rentals. Also see the GA Reel Scout Locations Database.
Live Performance Theaters
7 Stages
Windmill Arts
Education Classes and Workshops
Georgia Film Academy
The Georgia Film Academy supports a collaboration of institutions of the University System of Georgia, Technical College System of Georgia, and Independent institutions that offer professional courses in film, television, digital entertainment, Esports, and game development.
Linda Burns P.A. Academy
Want to know what it’s really like to be a production assistant? Experience the passion on the set? Be part of an exciting, creative industry? How to work with a large cast and crew? How to make contacts in this industry? How do deal with, um, difficult personalities and in difficult conditions? Well, you can’t learn any of that in a classroom. But you can learn all of that and more at the PA Academy. Think you fit the bill?
Once per quarter