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2015 Savannah Film Festival

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Savannah Film Festival 2015

The city of Savannah hosts the best in student and professional, local, national and international filmmaking every October for eight days for the Savannah Film Festival. The Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD)  produces and sponsors the annual film festival. The film festival features everything from animated shorts to full length documentaries and films. The 2015 Savannah Film Festival opened on Saturday, October 24th and has films showing and other events  taking place through Saturday October 31st.

The Savannah Film Festival  welcomes thousands of film fans and professionals to the city of Savannah every year. There are competition film screenings, special screenings (such as previews of new movies), workshops, panels and lectures from filmmakers. Attendees can get “behind the scenes” information from filmmakers and actors on the making of some of the films being screened at this year’s festival.  The new movies include: Suffragette, Meadowland, Brooklyn, Dixieland, Miss You Already, and Ithaca.

Each year, the Savannah Film Festival honors a group of actors and actresses and the work that they have done and are currently doing. Past honorees include Alec Baldwin, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, Sir Ian McKellan, Oliver Stone, John Goodman, Stan Lee, Diane Lane, Matt Dillon, Ray Liotta and Woody Harrleson. This year’s honorees include Rising Star Award winner, Alfie Allen from “Game of Thrones”, Saoirse Ronan, Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Meg Ryan and Spotlight Award winner, Olivia Wilde.

The majority of the screenings during the film festival are held at two theaters in downtown Savannah: The Lucas Theater for the Arts and the Trustees Theater.  A majority of the passes, allowing attendees to go to many events have sold out, but you can still purchase tickets and for events and movie screenings for the film festival online.  The Savannah Film Festival is a great way to see up and coming filmmakers and celebrate some of the best actors and filmmakers in the industry.

The sponsor of the Savannah Film Festival is the Savannah School of Art & Design (SCAD).  The school focuses on the arts from graphic and fashion design to filmmaking to sculpture.  The school is located near downtown Savannah with locations in Atlanta, Hong Kong, and Lacoste, France. In 2014, SCAD opened the Savannah Film Studios. The 22,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility has three sound stages, green rooms, a sound recording studio, post production suites, screening rooms and production offices. These studios are one of the nearly 70 SCAD facilities in the Savannah area and a great part of the SCAD arts and design curriculum.


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