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Out on Film fellowship June Happy Friday If you re a filmmaker looking for chosen patronage to get a project off the ground Out on Film has a new fellowship for you Out on Film and the Atlanta Pride Committee are launching the Reel Resistance Fellowship a six-month activity that aims to empower Georgia-based LGBTQ filmmakers to create - minute films that spotlight untold queer stories from around the state Each fellowship comes with a stipend mentorship and a premiere screening with Out on Film Learn more about the fellowship and how to apply here Without further ado Action Severance and The Studio are sitting firmly at the top of this year s Emmy nominations with and respectively Check out the full list of nominees here Tickets for Christopher Nolan s The Odyssey which doesn t release until next year are already on sale The dates for next year s Sundance Film Festival which will be the final festival before the festival shifts from Park City UT to Boulder CO will be Jan -Feb An event called The Creator s Toolbox will take place at Shadowbox Studios on Aug designed to spotlight the evolving role of production spaces in the present day s creative market system You can RSVP here This week s newsletter has an update on the Grove Theatre restoration project along with two movie reviews Sorry Baby and Don t Let s Go to the Dogs Tonight Plus what s playing at the movies this week a couple of new episodes of my podcast Crash Zoom and specific reading and listening recommendations for your lunch break Thanks for reading Sammie While his classmates were filling out college applications Eddiver Rodriguez was learning to splice underground power cables with Georgia Power He s an example of how Georgia s Work-Based Learning project connects students to careers before they graduate Learn how here SPONSOR MESSAGE Photo provided by Grove Park Foundation Grove Park hopes to reopen historic theater to constituents by Westside residents can expect the area s new Grove Park Performing and Cultural Arts Center to be open by the first quarter of according to Grove Park Foundation Executive Director Gavin McGuire The Grove Park Foundation a nonprofit aimed at revitalizing the Grove Park neighborhood was founded in and purchased the historic Grove Theatre located at Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway NW that same year The nonprofit has since been working to convert the theater into a neighborhood and arts center The renovation plans for the theater call for additional office space storage space and a break room on the second floor The theater would be on the ground floor and the building s facade would be restored The renovation also includes flexible performances and studio spaces and retail space Learn more here Indulge in Buckhead Restaurant Week SPONSORED BY LIVABLE BUCKHEAD From July - explore Buckhead s vibrant dining scene with curated menus and chef specials Enjoy upscale meals or casual favorites at nearly top restaurants Savor tasting flights shareable platters and sweet samplers Discover new flavors and make unforgettable memories Don t miss out reserve your table in the modern day Head to our website for the full Buckhead Restaurant Week lineup and follow us on social for updates Photo provided by A Sorry Baby and the nonlinear road to healing WEEKLY FILM REVIEW In life bad things happen all the time Sometimes they re small relatively harmless bad things like burning the roof of your mouth on your coffee or getting a flat tire But sometimes they are very bad things the kinds of things that forever change your worldview Sorry Baby revolves around the second type of bad thing Written and directed by Eva Victor in their feature debut Sorry Baby also stars Victor as Agnes a college professor struggling in the aftermath of sexual assault Through their specific sensibilities and a sensitive directorial style Victor explores how experiencing assault fundamentally shifts the way you interact with the world It s a searingly honest portrayal of the healing process rife with pain humor and tenderness just as intent on exploring the strategies in which we help each other as it is the tactics in which we hurt Check out my full review here Photo provided by Sony Pictures Classics Don t Let s Go To the Dogs Tonight delves into colonialist mentality through the eyes of a child There s a moment in Don t Let s Go to the Dogs Tonight where Bobo Lexi Venter asks her mother if they are racists Bobo has grown up in Zimbabwe then Rhodesia in the s during the late stages of the country s civil war as nationalist groups seek to overthrow the minority British rule and return power to native Africans Bobo s mother Nicola Embeth Davidtz who also wrote and directed the film seems genuinely perturbed at the idea in a way that s a little funny after all how could she a white woman living in colonial Africa be racist But Bobo isn t really old enough to understand what racism is let alone how she and her family might be functioning participants in a system that perpetuates it She brings no negative connotation to the word she just heard it somewhere and thought it sounded an awful lot like particular people she knew This moment in encapsulates the film in a nutshell Over the program of the film Bobo begins to unlearn a colonial mentality and superiority complex that have been instilled in her since birth Since the film is so singularly focused on that perspective it s sometimes challenging for it to escape the colonialist point of view it s working to untangle But Don t Let s Go to the Dogs Tonight is hyper aware of how that perspective can be limiting and tries to use that to its advantage Read my full review here Photo provided by A At the Movies If you re looking for a movie to see in theaters this week here s what you ve got to look forward to Movies releasing this weekend Eddington pictured I Know What You Did Last Summer Smurfs Sorry Baby Don t Let s Go to the Dogs Tonight The Tara Special Events A Space Odyssey in mm The Tara Friday-Thursday Joystick Dragon Con Weird Science The Plaza Friday Before Sunrise th Anniversary The Plaza Friday-Tuesday Barry Lyndon in K The Plaza Friday-Thursday In the Mood for Love in K The Plaza Friday-Thursday Donnie Darko in mm The Plaza Saturday-Monday Soul Cinema Sundays The Last Dragon The Plaza Sunday Mamma Mia Movie Party Springs Cinema Taphouse Sunday Photo by Lola Scott design by Aaron Strand Crash Zoom Turner Classic Movies and Laika Studios Welcome to Crash Zoom a podcast where we take a deep dive into film and entertainment industry news On this podcast my cohost Aaron Strand and I explore how things happening at the highest level trickle down and affect the independent artist But moving forward we ll be switching up our format Each week we ll be releasing two shorter episodes one on Wednesday and one on Friday Instead of covering multiple different news items we ll be diving deep on two stories This week we re looking at the relationship between Warner Bros Discovery and Turner Classic Movies and diving deep into the history of Laika Studios Check out the episodes here Lights Camera Action It will apparently come as no surprise to anyone reading this newsletter that I am an AI skeptic particularly when it comes to its use in film and art That being announced I really enjoyed this Vulture conversation between Jerry Saltz and David Wallace-Wells one AI-skeptic and the other AI-curious about what constitutes the difference between AI art and art made by humans I particularly love this kicker quote from Jerry Maybe when AI starts having sex and fears death it will start making great art Critics deserve profiles too and this one is a doozy Andre Sennwald became the movie critic for the Times in at the age of He died in at the age of But even in his short tenure he witnessed and attempted to make sense of an industry that was promptly evolving whether it be moving from black and white to color or the invention of the Hays Code Richard Brody in the past few days wrote a wonderful essay dissecting the work of Sennwald for The New Yorker You can check that out here Who do you think are our greatest movie stars The Big Picture has certain thoughts particularly when it comes to the millennial and up demographic The podcast in the last few days issued their rundown of the best movie stars over the age of Take a listen to see if you agree The present day s Scene was edited by Julie E Bloemeke The post Grove Theatre reno appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta
