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- Move to Landmark Midtown Art Cinema
- Move to The Plaza Theatre and 7 Stages
- Spin Off of Out on Film
- SOUND + VISION
- Notable films that have played the festival
- Award-Winning Films
- Festival dates
- See also
- External links
{{About|the event founded 1976|the event founded 1968|Atlanta International Film Festival}}{{Infobox Film Festival | name = Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) | image = File:Atlanta Film Festival Logo.png | founded = 1976 | number = 150-250 | location = Atlanta, Georgia, United States | language = International | website = http://www.atlantafilmfestival.com }}The Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) is an Academy Award-qualifying, international film festival held in Atlanta, Georgia. Started in 1976 and occurring every spring, the festival shows a diverse range of independent films, including genres such as experimental, horror and sci-fi. Since 2008, the festival has presented the Pink Peach prize, which is awarded to the best LGBT feature and short films, as chosen by the Pink Peach jury. In 2013, the festival started an annual New Mavericks shorts block, featuring films by female filmmakers with strong female leads. In 2015, the New Mavericks program was expanded to include feature films and jury prizes for both features and shorts. The Accountant won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2002 after qualifying at the 2001 Atlanta Film Festival. Over the years, the festival's primary venues have included theaters such as Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, Atlantic Station Regal Cinemas and The Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State. In 2013, ATLFF moved its principle screening operations to The Plaza Theatre in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood and the 7 Stages Theatre in Little Five Points. Move to Landmark Midtown Art CinemaIn 2007, the festival partnered with the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema to centrally locate the festival to Midtown, dubbed the Heart of Atlanta’s Arts and home to a wide array of restaurants, bars and shops. Making the change allowed attending filmmakers and audience members more opportunities to interact and to attend the myriad of panels, screenplay readings, film discussions and parties that accompany the fest. Move to The Plaza Theatre and 7 StagesAfter 6 years centered at Landmark, the festival moved its home base to The Plaza and added 7 Stages Theatre as a secondary venue. Taking advantage of the Virginia Highlands and Little 5 Points areas, the change pushed the event to be more of a walking festival. According to Artistic Director Charles Judson, the move was mostly praised by locals and introduced out of town guests to Atlanta's unique neighborhoods. Spin Off of Out on FilmFor years the Atlanta Film Festival organization produced Atlanta's Out on Film gay film festival. In the Fall of 2008 the Atlanta Film Festival gave Out on Film to the LGBT community. Out on Film became an independent, 501(c)(3) gay/lesbian operation. SOUND + VISIONIn 2012, the festival partnered with the Goat Farm Arts Center and indieATL to introduce a special, mostly-outdoor event featuring music videos, art installations and live musical performances called SOUND + VISION. The evening is an example of the types of elements film festivals continue to add as they look to redefine themselves, connect with audiences and innovate. An estimated 1,200 people attended in its inaugural year, dropping to just under 800 in 2013, due to inclimate weather. In 2014, the event drew over 1,500 attendees, and eclipsed 3,000 attendees in 2015. Notable films that have played the festival Year | Films |
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1983 | Chicken Ranch | 1993 | El Mariachi | 2002 | West 47th Street | 2004 | Primer, Control Room, Born into Brothels, Baadasssss!, Bomb the System, Zatoichi, Dirty Work, Dear Pillow | 2005 | Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Puffy Chair, Emmanuel's Gift, The Boys of Baraka, Hustle & Flow, Me and You and Everyone We Know | 2006 | Quinceanera, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Factotum, The Other Side | 2007 | The Signal, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Kamp Katrina, Blood Car, Great World of Sound, Fay Grim, The Last Days of Left Eye, King of Kong, Murder Party, Away From Her, Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life, Killer of Sheep, August the First, La Vie En Rose, War/Dance | 2008 | The Lena Baker Story, Dance of the Dead, Make-out with Violence, Mongol, American Teen, At the Death House Door, The Visitor, Land of Confusion, Nerdcore Rising, My Effortless Brilliance, The Project, The Cake Eaters, XXY | 2009 | (500) Days of Summer, The People Speak, Rudo y Cursi, That Evening Sun, Tyson, Moon, Beeswax, Alexander the Last, Art & Copy, Mississippi Damned, Neshoba, Idiots & Angels, Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death, Naturally Obsessed | 2010 | Winter's Bone, The Square, The Mormon Proposition, Racing Dreams, Horn Dog, Pigeon: Impossible, I Am Comic, Family Affair, 9500 Liberty, Cropsey, Putty Hill, American Jihadist, Yellowbrickroad, Handsome Harry, Freedom Riders, Godspeed, Wheedle's Groove | 2011 | Terri, Sahkanaga, The First Grader, White Irish Drinkers, Incendies, Young Goethe in Love, Hot Coffee, The Start of Dreams | 2012 | L!fe Happens, The Cabin in the Woods, Americano, Boy, The Woman in the Fifth, Take Me Home, AKA Blondie, John Portman: A Life of Building, V/H/S, The Last Fall, My Last Day Without You, OK, Good, That's What She Said, Monsieur Lazhar, Marley | 2013 | Mud, The Spectacular Now, I Used to Be Darker, Concussion, God Loves Uganda, A River Changes Course, Big Words, Interior. Leather Bar., Blood Brother, Good Ol' Freda, White Reindeer, Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp, A Teacher, Blood Brother, Between Us, Our Nixon |
Award-Winning Films Year | Narrative Feature | Documentary Feature | Pink Peach Feature | Special Jury Award Feature | Audience Award Feature |
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1999 | The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez-Gomez | American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land | — | American Hollow | A Luv Tale | 2000 | Good Housekeeping | Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains | — | 2001 | Hybrid | Confederacy Theory, T-shirt Travels | — | West 47th Street | The Journey, Scratch | 2002 | My Father, the Genius | That's My Face | — | Manito | Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew | 2003 | Zero Day | A Certain Kind of Death, Girlhood | — | — | — | 2004 | Dear Pillow | Dirty Work | — | — | — | 2005 | Most High | The Boys of Baraka | — | — | — | 2006 | Pope Dreams | What Remains | — | Quinceañera | Loving Annabelle | 2007 | Great World of Sound | Protagonist | — | — | Darius Goes West | 2008 | Make-out with Violence | At the Death House Door | XXY | The Elevator, Land of Confusion | Young@Heart | 2009 | That Evening Sun | The Way We Get By | Training Rules | At the Edge of the World, Greek Pete | Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride, Living is Winning | 2010 | Putty Hill | Family Affair | The Mormon Proposition | Tierra madre | — | 2011 | Prairie Love | An African Election | Bear Nation | Without | Disabled but Able to Rock, Sahkanaga | 2012 | Welcome to Pine Hill | Code 2600 | Cloudburst | — | — | 2013 | I Used to Be Darker | A River Changes Course | God Loves Uganda | — | Blood Brother | 2014 | I Believe in Unicorns | Getting to the Nutcracker | Queens & Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo | Web | Little Ballers | 2015 | God Bless the Child | Stray Dog | Before the Last Curtain Falls | Next Year | Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi | 2016 | Hunky Dory | Driving with Selvi | — | Juanicas | The Founders | 2017 | Cortez | Rat Film | — | Le Soledad,Raising Bertie | Holden On |
Festival dates Year | Dates |
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2007 | April 19–28 | 2008 | April 10–19 | 2009 | April 16–25 | 2010 | April 15–23 | 2011 | April 28 - May 7 | 2012 | March 23 - April 1 | 2013 | March 15–24 | 2014 | March 28 - April 6 | 2015 | March 20–29 | 2016 | April 1–10 | 2017 | March 24- April 2 |
See also- Sundance Film Festival
- SXSW Film Festival
- Nashville Film Festival
- Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
- List of film festivals
- List of film festivals in North and Central America
External links- Atlanta Film Festival website
- [https://www.facebook.com/atlantafilmfestival Facebook Page]
- Out on Film
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