Atlanta Film Society (ATLFS) has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the 2021 Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF). This project will help support Georgia’s fast growing film industry, one of the largest production locations in the world. The Atlanta Film Festival grant is among 1,073 projects across America totaling nearly $25 million that were selected during this first round of fiscal year 2021 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects funding category.

“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support this project from The Atlanta Film Society,” said Arts Endowment Acting Chairman, Ann Eilers. “ATLFS is among the arts organizations across the country that have demonstrated creativity, excellence, and resilience during this very challenging year.”

“We’re thrilled by the opportunities this grant will open for us. As an art nonprofit, we’ve been hit hard by the effects of the pandemic. The ongoing support of NEA allows us to continue our mission to connect, educate, and engage audiences with the creative industry by supporting artists and providing a platform for their work”, said ATLFS Executive Director, Chris Escobar.

About the Atlanta Film Festival

Now in its fourth decade, the Atlanta Film Festival—one of only two-dozen Academy Award® qualifying festivals in the U.S.—is the area’s preeminent celebration of cinema.  The Atlanta Film Festival is one of the largest and longest-running festival in the country, welcoming an audience of over 28,000 to discover hundreds of new independent, international, animated, documentary, and short films, selected from 9000+ submissions from all over the world.  It is also the most distinguished event in its class, recognized as Best Film Festival by Creative Loafing, Sunday Paper, 10Best and Atlanta Magazine. This year’s ATLFF will be held April 22nd to May 2nd.

For more information on projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.