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Atlanta Film Festival. Dates: April 20th - 30th, 2023. Website: https://www.atlantafilmfestival.com/ Film Submissions: https://filmfreeway.com/atlff. Now in its fourth decade, the Atlanta Film Festival—one of only two-dozen Academy Award® qualifying festivals in the U.S.—is the area’s preeminent celebration of cinema.
May 14, 2021 · ATLANTA, GA (May 14, 2021) — The 45th annual Atlanta Film Festival + Creative Conference (ATLFF) is proud to announce the award winners for the 2021 festival, which took place from April 22, 2021 – May 2, 2021.
The Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) is the area’s preeminent celebration of cinema. Our 11-day festival presents over 120 films from all over the world, representing 110+ countries, selected from over 6,000 submissions. Each year, 90 to 95% of ATLFF’s program is composed of submitted films. ATLFF actively strives to provide a diverse slate of ...
- Akilla’S Escape
- Carterland
- Clean Slate
- Culpa
- A Fire Within
- Landlocked
- Negra
- See You Then
- The Sleeping Negro
- We’Re All Going to The World’S Fair
USA. 2020; 90 MINUTES. A Toronto- and New York-set drama from director and cowriter Charles Officer. His modern noir stars Morehouse College graduate Saul Williams (who co-composed the score) as Akilla. A longtime soldier in the drug trade, he’s trying to get out of the business before it’s too late. An encounter with a teenage gang member (Thamela...
WORLD PREMIERE. USA, 2021; 122 MINUTES. Hagiography of the best sort. This informative documentary by Jim and Will Pattiz lionizes Plains native Jimmy Carter in a way that, well, is only supported by his radical, single, four-year term in office as president. From this distance of 40-plus years, it’s startling to see the risks the former peanut far...
WORLD PREMIERE. USA, 2021; 96 MINUTES. Here’s a lovely, full-circle documentary for the festival, and a valentine to indie filmmaking. When we meet them, Cassidy Detmer and Joshua Litton are residents at A Better Way, a strict, no-excuses home for recovering drug addicts. They’re also major film buffs. Slate, directed by Jared Callahan, documents t...
FRANCE–SPAIN–GERMANY. 2020; 84 MINUTES. The idea of actors and a director improvising an unscripted relationship drama can make you fear the worst sort of self-indulgent result. The lovely surprise of this German film, shot in Spain, is that, well, it’s a lovely surprise. Director Ulrike Grote gives us the tale of an estranged couple, Hanna (Janna ...
USA–CANADA–ETHIOPIA. 2021; 85 MINUTES. In 1989 Atlanta, Ethiopian refugee Edge shows up for work at the Colony Square Hotel and finds herself face-to-face with the brute who terrorized her neighborhood during the so-called Red Terror of the 1970s. Kelbessa Negewo personally tortured Edge and her sister Elizabeth and was involved with the deaths of ...
WORLD PREMIERE. USA, 2021; 83 MINUTES. In director and cowriter Timothy Hall’s drama, a young Atlantan named Nick (Dustin Gooch) plans to scatter his mother’s ashes on St. Simons Island, and reluctantly, invites his estranged father in Arkansas to join him. What complicates his plans is that Dad is now a trans woman named Briana (Delia Kropp), and ...
MEXICO, 2020; 72 MINUTES. The instigating incident came when writer-director Medhin Tewolde Serrano, age 7, was playing with friends in her Mexican hometown and was called the title word by some rowdy boys. Until then, she’d hadn’t realized that the color of her skin set her apart from others, made her a “less than” in the eyes of some. Her thought...
USA, 2021; 74 MINUTES. Another ATLFF feature starring a trans actor. Director and cowriter Mari Walker’s drama centers on the reunion of a couple who were together several years in college, until the guy walked out without saying goodbye. That was more than 10 years ago, and when Naomi (Lynn Chen) next meets her ex, she’s the post-transition Kris (...
USA, 2021; 73 MINUTES.“I am viewed as a monkey, a freak and always, always viewed as a threat,” says the main character in voiceover at the start of this racially charged drama about the perils of being a Black man in America. He’s played by writer-director Skinner Myers, and when you learn that the character is known only as Man, you’ll get a sens...
USA, 2021; 86 MINUTES. Trans writer-director Jane Shoenbrun feature debut fools you into thinking it’s an internet horror film along the lines of Creepypasta or Slender Man. It’s actually a meditation on the dangers of online isolation, especially on vulnerable teenagers. In a phenomenal performance that carries almost the whole movie, Anna Cobb pl...
2021 Atlanta Film Festival . NOTE: Additional film programming to be announced. My starred films. Grid view. List view. ... Music Video. Narrative Feature. Narrative ...
2021 Atlanta Film Festival. Celebrating its 45th year, the Atlanta Film Festival is the region’s preeminent celebration of cinema. The organization offers entertainment, networking, education & professional development year-round. The festival itself is one of the largest and longest-running in the region.
Mar 28, 2023 · The film festival and educational conference will occur Thursday, April 20 through Sunday, April 30, 2023, at multiple venues in Atlanta and virtually. “We are thrilled to return for our 47th annual festival with both an in-person and virtual format, allowing our films and content to be more accessible than ever,” said Christopher Escobar ...
