Despite the optimistic outlook of local entertainment executives, Atlanta area creatives still say there’s cause for concern. There’s reportedly an almost 50% drop in production spending and films shot in Georgia over the past three years. Plus, after more than a decade of filming blockbusters in the metro area, Marvel Studios is leaving the state to film at a lower cost in the United Kingdom.
While executives and workers agree that independent films are what will sustain the local movie and television industry’s future, workers say there’s limited funding and infrastructure to produce those projects.
On Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look with Rose Scott,” local workers in the entertainment industry share the problems they see and tell us how indie filmmakers are banding together to support each other’s work through town halls and creating a new funding source.
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