Atlanta Film Chat

Two of the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition Short Film finalists, Kate Balsley and Gabriela McNicoll, discuss their scripts and entering the world of screenwriting!

Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco discuss their film “Flannery” about Flannery O’Connor, why her estate gave them permission to make it, her role in Southern culture, and much more!

Filmmakers from short film 83 Days detailing the unjust execution of 14 year old George Stinney discuss making the film and its meteoric rise around the world!

James and Ana Mackenzie discuss their projects Three Men Named Mantas and Tough Love which will be showing at the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival!

Casimir Nozkowski discusses his feature film The Outside Story starring “Atlanta” lead Brian Tyree Henry which is showing at the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival!

Jim Farmer from the Out On Film Festival returns to chat about becoming an Oscar qualifying festival and going digital for this year’s event!

Nina Lee discusses her series Sorry About That, her love of horror films, her family’s history with ghosts, and much more!

Brian and Kevin Lonano discuss their exquisite corpse film Quaranstein which was made with several of their filmmaker friends from around the country!

Aamir and Chaz from Welcome to the Wall and Cast Iron Productions discuss the organizations, hosting table reads, five dollar dinosaurs, and much more!

Kevin Lewis chats about directing the killer animatronic film Willy’s Wonderland starring Nicolas Cage which was the last film to wrap in Georgia before the pandemic!

Taylor Ri’chard from 3rd Fathom Films discusses his new film Hallowed Be Thy name, 80’s horror, his non-profit The Raze Foundation, and much more!

Jacob Allen and Jayda Knight discuss the Socially Distant Fest which airs digitally on Facebook Live and how you can contribute!

The Pitch continues with Part 9, featuring horror host and expert Blair Bathory discussing the outline for Lollipop & Maple!

Greg Galloway, Karon Riley, and Jason Winn discuss their feature film Letters from a Bottle!

Duncan Hodges and Alex Woodruff from Pineapple Cut Pictures discuss their horror short Forgive Us, queer themes in horror films, and much more!

Our special series The Pitch returns with an update from Molly Coffee on her newest feature film project after Kaylee, Age 8 was put on hold!

Tucky Williams discusses her series and feature film Girl/Girl Scene out now on Amazon Prime, fighting and defeating trolls online, telling authentic lesbian stories, and much more!

Megan Messmer discusses her web series Intersection, moving to Atlanta, gentrification, and much more!

Lauren Peacock discusses her filmmaking career and her new book “Female. Likes Cheese. Comes with Dog.” which is out now on Amazon!

Kevin Gillese tells us about stepping down as Artistic Director at Dad’s Garage, working with special needs actors, and his feature film How to Ruin the Holidays!