Friday, February 23, 2018

2018 Southern Film Festival Schedule

There are film festivals for filmmakers and film lovers across the south. Here is a current schedule of upcoming festivals for 2018. What are your favorites? Are we missing any? Please let us know.

2018 Southern Film Festival Schedule

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Orlando Film Festival - October 19-26, 2017



Named one of the top "25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World" by Moviemaker magazine, the Orlando Film Festival will be held from October 19-26, 2017 at the Cobb Plaza Cinema Cafe in Orlando, Florida.

For more information and purchase tickets, go to: Orlando Film Festival.





Thursday, September 14, 2017

Top American Film Schools in the South


Once again, five southern film schools made The Hollywood Reporter's annual list of Top 25 American Film Schools.

11. University of Texas, Austin
Austin, Texas 

14. University of North Carolina School of the Arts 
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

16. Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota, Florida

17. Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia

20. Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida




From The Hollywood Reporter,  The Top 25 American Film Schools 2017 (August 16, 2017).



Monday, August 7, 2017

Best American Southern Films

The Southern films listed in the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films of All Time (10th Anniversary Edition) are:

Gone With the Wind (1939)
The General (1927)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Nashville (1975)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Forrest Gump (1994)
All the President's Men (1976)
Easy Rider (1969)
The Last Picture Show (1971)

What are your favorites? Have you seen them all?