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City of Refuge is a faith-based nonprofit organization that serves individuals facing some of life’s most difficult circumstances. A new documentary from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Nick Nanton, The Greatest of These, tells the story of the nearly 30-year-old nonprofit and its founder, Bruce Deel.

When Tre’ Horton arrived in Los Angeles from metro Atlanta in 2022, he still wasn’t sure whether to focus on dancing, singing, or acting. Growing up in Clayton County, he excelled in all three art forms, Luckily for Horton, his feature film debut gave him the chance to showcase all of these skills at once, as he plays Michael Jackson’s older brother Marlon in Michael, the new biopic on the King of Pop.

The Atlanta Film Festival celebrates a major milestone this year, marking its 50th anniversary, a distinction few film festivals in the U.S. have reached. ATLFF is an Academy Award qualifying festival with a reputation as highly competitive, drawing cinephiles and filmmakers to the city annually. The 2026 festival runs in person from April 23 to May 3 at the Plaza and Tara theaters, with virtual screenings from May 4 to 11.

Shunika Terry is nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for Sinners, the film that earned a record-breaking 16 nominations at this year's Academy Awards. Here, she talks about how she went from a salon to the film and TV industry, working with Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan on Sinners, and how it feels to be nominated.

Over the past 15 years, Dunwoody native Ryan White has established himself as one of the most entertaining and captivating documentary filmmakers working in American cinema. Come See Me in the Good Light has earned White his first Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. The film celebrates the life, work, career, and activism of Andrea Gibson, the late poet who garnered a legion of fans as a spoken-word artist. We spoke with White about how growing up in Atlanta inspired him to become a documentary filmmaker, his love for Southern stories, and his connection to Gibson’s poetry.

The 26th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival will unfold across the city between February 18 and March 3. Over the course of two weeks, the AJFF will screen 25 narrative features, 24 documentaries, and 16 short films from 20 different countries across the world. 

Dahlonega, a picturesque Georgia mountain town known for its Hallmark movie charm, is preparing to welcome the Christmas spirit in the heart of summer. A Small Town Christmas, a three-day convention featuring beloved holiday film stars and festive activities, will take place July 25-27.

When Atlanta actress Danielle Deadwyler is reading a script for the first time, she has to feel a spark of “curiosity, inventiveness, or spontaneity” before agreeing to star. This approach has worked well for her in recent years; every performance she gives aches in humanity, as she goes from intense to vulnerable to funny to strong in an instant. Deadwyler is just as mesmerizing in 40 Acres, the post-apocalyptic thriller in which she plays Hailey Freeman, the matriarch of a family trying to survive on a farm after a series of plagues and wars.

Like Atlanta’s unlikely journey to host the 1996 Centennial Olympics, for The Games in Black and White filmmakers George Hirthler and Bob Judson, the path to make the new documentary—premiering at the 49th annual Atlanta Film Festival Saturday, April 26 at the Rialto Theatre for the Arts—was equally long and complicated.

The Atlanta Film Festival has always highlighted the best of the peach state, but local films are at the core of the 49th year of the festival. From April 24 to May 4, the festival screens 132 films—from documentaries to animated shorts to features—including 40 films with Georgia connections. Atlanta magazine spoke to the directors of two of these films to learn more about each feature and its local ties.