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New partnership to fast-track Fulton students into film industry

Hollywood film and television spending in Georgia ballooned by 50 percent in the past fiscal year, with Katniss Everdeen and lucrative tax incentives playing major roles, state officials said Tuesday. The movie and television industry shot 158 projects in Georgia in the 12 months ended in June, up 11 percent from last year. But direct spending surged to $1.4 billion from $934 million a year ago, largely because of bigger budget flicks. FULL ARTICLE HERE | More: 10 Reasons to Seek a Job in Atlanta’s TV and Film Industry
Hollywood film and television spending in Georgia ballooned by 50 percent in the past fiscal year, with Katniss Everdeen and lucrative tax incentives playing major roles, state officials said Tuesday. The movie and television industry shot 158 projects in Georgia in the 12 months ended in June, up 11 percent from last year. But direct spending surged to $1.4 billion from $934 million a year ago, largely because of bigger budget flicks. FULL ARTICLE HERE | More: 10 Reasons to Seek a Job in Atlanta’s TV and Film Industry
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June 30, 2015

Atlanta Metro Studios, the Fulton County school system and Union City recently announced a pilot-program collaboration aimed getting more students into the film industry.

Considered the first of its kind to address the growing film and media employment needs in Georgia, the partnership is funding tuition for as many as six 2015 Fulton high school graduates and enroll them in Clayton State University’s digital film crew training program.

Those recieving the funding are slated to come from Fulton schools surrounding the Atlanta Metro Studios site at the old Shannon Mall in Union City.

The program trains students on professional equipment, orients them to all the jobs and procedures on film sets and places them on the crews of independent productions in the Atlanta area during the two-semester course schedule.

For more information about the program, visit www.clayton.edu/film-and-digital-media.

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