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Coming soon to a high school near you: The Georgia Film Academy

Aldo Bacallao, a broadcast video teacher at North Springs Charter High School, and Allen Norwood, at teacher at Tri-Ciities High School's Department Mission: CTAE News The Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education Department, mount an 8x8 overhead into a large gobo head on a combo stand during their Georgia Film Academy training. Photo: Kyle Sudu

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Aldo Bacallao, a broadcast video teacher at North Springs Charter High School, and Allen Norwood, at teacher at Tri-Ciities High School's Department Mission: CTAE News The Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education Department, mount an 8x8 overhead into a large gobo head on a combo stand during their Georgia Film Academy training. Photo: Kyle Sudu
By Jennifer Brett
July 27, 2017

A year later, executive director Jeff Stepakoff told us, more than 1,000 people had taken a course through the academy and more than 400 had completed an internship.

Next up: reaching out to high schools.

That process has begun with a pilot program this summer, when nearly 30 high school film teachers from across the state spent 10 days at the Georgia Film Academy.

Wilkinson County (McIntyre) Middle School teacher Jan Kump, Fulton County teachers Allen Norwood and Aldo Bacallao and Kenneth Gibbs, Broadcast Video A/V Technology teacher at Stephenson High School in DeKalb County work on the frame for an 8x8 overhead during Georgia Film Academy training. Photo: Kyle Sudu

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