The Department of Theatre and Film Studies in Franklin College is a crucial partner in the success of the MFA Film Program. Their expert faculty compliments Grady College’s course offerings with world-class film seminars, access to MFA actors for casting, acting for the camera and intimacy coordination workshops, fight/stunt choreography, set construction, art direction, costume design, and guidance on animation.

The Georgia Film Academy supports a collaboration of institutions of the University System of Georgia, Technical College System of Georgia, and Independent institutions that offer professional courses in film, television, digital entertainment, Esports, and game development.

A variety of production courses over the two-year program are taught by accomplished GFA faculty at our Athena Studios and Trilith Studios locations.

This year, our second-year students enjoyed all-access passes to the Atlanta Film Festival, “one of the largest and longest-running festivals in the country; ATLFF showcases the work of both emerging and established artists and is one of less than twenty US film festivals that is Academy Award®-qualifying in all three shorts categories: Narrative Short, Documentary Short, and Animated Short.”

In fact, Kelvin Summerhill, a graduate of our inaugural cohort, premiered his short film at the Atlanta Film Festival, a prestigious honor as his film was one of ~40 films selected to screen out of thousands of submissions.

Thanks to our partnership with Screencraft, Coverfly, and FinalDraft, students have access to free FinalDraft software and writing competition fee waivers!

A company built on the mission to “end our unnecessary and harmful dependence on single-use plastics,” RAIN became an MFA program partner in the 2022-2023 academic year. RAIN generously supplied our first-year students with an entire palette of their water to replace students’ need for single use plastic water bottles, not only saving senseless plastic from entering the landfill but also saving our students money from needing to by water for their productions. Talk about a win-win!