How Warner Bros. Found Their Shining Stone in Actor Kyliegh Curran

Georgia preteens pressed up against their classroom window to watch as Kyliegh Curran received the news of her latest casting. The hallways filled with whispered cheers as Curran’s mother relayed the message to her outside of her reading class. “Kyliegh,” she recalls her mom saying in the school hallway, “You’re going to be in a movie!”...

Their Purpose Driven Mission - Afemo and Elisabeth Omilami

We are in need of a renaissance right now,” says Elisabeth Omilami, actress and CEO of Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless (now known as Hosea Helps). She runs the company alongside her husband, chief operating officer and fellow actor, Afemo Omilami. Her words come from an honest place of using art to improve the lives of others and combine the...

Georgia's Make-Up Effects Artists

Monsters are a great motivator. Generations of movie and comic book monsters have inspired kids to build their own creatures, mold scary masks and devise blood and gore designed to still the hearts of mothers everywhere. Who knew that the rudimentary props, prosthetics and makeup skills they acquired in childhood would lead these Atlanta-based make-up effects artists t...

With Kathleen Bertrand

When it comes to film festivals, the Venice, Cannes and Toronto iterations likely take the proverbial prize for being the most recognizable, while Sundance easily holds that distinction in the United States. However, before they were the powerhouses they are now, each of these festivals had to be built from scratch and earn their now stellar reputations through the hard work of p...