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Image becomes Atlanta Film Festival 365
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Starting now, Atlanta’s Image Film and Video Center will be known as Atlanta Film Festival 365.
Image has been presenting the Atlanta Film Festival for more than 30 years and now hopes metro Atlantans will think of the organization in that context all year round.
“It’s a branding issue,” says the nonprofit group’s executive director Gabe Wardell, who made the announcement at Tuesday’s fundraising gala at the Fox Theatre’s Egyptian ballroom.
The 32nd annual Atlanta Film Festival starts Thursday with a sold-out screening of the made-in-Georgia “The Lena Baker Story” at Atlantic Station. Some 160 films will then be shown through April 19 at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.
Tuesday’s gala included honors given to Tyler Perry Studios; filmmakers Peter Gilbert and Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) whose latest documentary, “At The Death House Door,” is part of this year’s fest; Emory film professor Matthew Bernstein and Metro Arts & Culture Coalition board chair Virginia Hepner.
For full details on all the films in the fest go here.
Do you plan to see any of the films at the festival?
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