Two days can change the course of history in intense and surprising ways. It’s actually always been that way. Think about stories of the Mets winning the 1969 World Series in a 48-hour underdog turnaround to beat the Baltimore Orioles. Or the Apollo 13 rescue mission, when a moon-bound spacecraft broke and a 48-hour rescue…
Midtown will offer a whole new kind of MFA film program this fall — Screen Scoring and Music Design at the Media Design School at Strayer, across from the Fox Theatre. To understand its educational significance, you have to consider the man behind the music and the film-scoring journey that’s brought him to Atlanta. In…
ArtsATL’s Set Life series focuses on local creatives who work in Atlanta’s film and television industry. We’ll talk to those who work on both sides of the camera and explore their struggles and successes in navigating Georgia’s volatile film and TV scene. :: It’s difficult navigating the dating scene as a chubbier gay guy. But filmmaker Nicholas Molencupp…
Magical realism. The term is an oxymoron. And like the best of them, it emphasizes with exactitude an oftentimes concealed truth. That is, the magic in life is everywhere, in the everyday, in the real. And oftentimes, it’s missed until someone points it out to you. The founder and owner of Atlanta-based Cafecito Productions, producer…
ArtsATL’s Set Life series focuses on local creatives who work in Atlanta’s film and television industry. We’ll talk to those who work on both sides of the camera and explore their struggles and successes in navigating Georgia’s volatile film and TV scene. :: Wherever creativity and expression emerge in the Atlanta film scene, Denise Santos works to encourage…
ArtsATL’s Set Life series focuses on local creatives who work in Atlanta’s film and television industry. We’ll talk to those who work on both sides of the camera and explore their struggles and successes in navigating Georgia’s volatile film and TV scene. :: Anthony J. James did not grow up surrounded by filmmakers and artists. But he met…
When Diego Silva Acevedo came to Atlanta in 2016 from Colombia, South America, he was looking for opportunities in the film industry. “My heart said, “Don’t go to LA; go to Atlanta. Atlanta will be the new base for filmmaking,’” Silva Acevedo says. And soon after he arrived, he landed a job as director of…
Schenley Sargusingh gets a flicker in his eye when he talks about his work in the professional film industry. Twenty years and counting, and he’s still all in. Between films, documentaries, music videos, television series, and multi-million-dollar-budget to no-budget projects around the country, the veteran filmmaker’s enthusiasm for the craft has never dimmed. A professional…
ArtsATL’s Set Life series focuses on local creatives who work in Atlanta’s film and television industry. We’ll talk to those who work on both sides of the camera and explore their struggles and successes in navigating Georgia’s volatile film and TV scene. :: Atlanta-based creative and independent film industry fixture Leanna Adams has moxie and tenaciousness; these…
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re looking back on 2025 with reprints of some of the best stories of the year. In 2025, ArtsATL introduced a new series, Set Life, which focuses on local creatives who work in Atlanta’s film and television industry. These monthly stories take us behind the scenes and introduce us to the people powering this…
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