**Disclaimer: Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Atlanta Film Festival will be postponed this year. When I learn more, I will pass it on to you.**
Last year, I covered the Atlanta Film Festival for the first time. It was my first, full film festival experience, and- save for some food poisoning midway through- it was a great one. Shortly after covering another local film festival in the Women in Horror Film Festival, Sonic Cinema has been approved for press credentials for the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival, which runs from Thursday, April 30-Sunday, May 10.
Now that I have two film festivals under my wing, I have a pretty good understanding of what goes in to covering one, and what that will look like for Sonic Cinema. There are going to be some feature reviews, some summary blogs, and, for patrons, exclusives like reviews of the individual short film blocks. I hope to take part in covering the red carpet events again, and (hopefully) I’ll be able to check out the Sound+Vision Event during the week, one of the things I missed due to food poisoning.
The most important part of the festival, however, will be the films, and of the six features announced during the First Wave back in January, there are at least four I will make a point of watching. There’s only one narrative of the two announced I’m very interested in seeing in Chris Bailey’s “Curtis”, about a former high school basketball player who’s suffering from schizophrenia, but, as the festival comes closer, that doesn’t mean “Milkwater” may not make it into my sights, as well. The documentary lineup looks much more compelling, starting with “John Lewis: Good Trouble”, about the Civil Rights icon, and Georgia congressional representative; “Cinema Pameer”, about a cinema operating in war torn Afghanistan; and “Some Kind of Heaven”, about a retirement community in Central Florida known as “Disney for Retirees.” The fourth documentary, “Overseas”, is about mothers from the Philippines whom get deployed as domestic workers and nannies, leaving their own children behind; it’s not as immediately interesting to me, but like “Milkwater,” might make my radar. We will see how the schedule shakes out.
I will check back in closer to the start of the festival with a more clear look at the schedule. For now, though, back to finish discussing the last festival I covered.
Thanks for listening,
Brian Skutle
www.sonic-cinema.com
