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Screenwriter Michael Lucker from Screenwriter School and student Angelie Denizard listen to another group's table read
Students read their drafts of their scripts to hear feedback (Top) Ryan Monolopolus, AJ Jones and Hamid Thompson (Bottom) Carlos Velasco, Shaun Mathis and Gillian Fitzgerald
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movie-making course unlike any other began in January right here in Atlanta. Local business Nova House has teamed up with Laconic Production and Film it 4 Fun to bring the four month program “Film Your Sh!t” to life. The program includes a film school and practical, hands-on experiences in which students tour Atlanta’s premiere production spaces, learn from industry leading professionals, team up to make their own films and screen them at an industry mixer this spring. “Simply put, our goal is to create the production program we wish we had coming up in the industry,” said Ryan 26
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Monolopolus, director and co-founder of Film it 4 Fun. “By growing and supporting the emerging filmmakers Atlanta has to offer, we can truly build a lasting industry here.” The program runs weekly at Nova House with instructors Gillian Fitzgerald and Shaun Mathis. “Everyone knows we need to start making our own content here in Georgia. It’s the only way to truly make our market sustainable. But people need to start running their productions in a sustainable, professional manner; that’s where we come in,” explained Fitzgerald, who is also a co-owner of Nova House. “We want students to be empowered
to go out and make their own stuff once the class is over,” said AJ Jones, co-owner of Nova House. During the program, students will be divided into groups for each production and will learn how to manage and track expenses with a $1,000 budget for their films. They will create a script, organize a film shoot, shoot professional level footage on provided equipment and edit the footage. At the completion of the course, all students will have a finished film to be added to their reels and submitted at festivals. The program is scheduled to finish in early May 2020.