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Ent-Tech Atlanta - Day 5 (The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit - Part 3)

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Day 5 (Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit) SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 - 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM The Symposium Room Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs (RICE) 504 Fair St SW - Atlanta, GA 30313 Code, Community & Cultural Power The five-day gathering closes with a question that is becoming impossible to ignore: as artificial intelligence begins to reshape culture, creativity and commerce, who will have the agency to shape what comes next? Sunday is spearheaded by Atlanta-based AI Makers Generation (AIMG) , an organization advancing a simple but increasingly consequential idea: AI literacy should be as accessible as digital literacy. AIMG moves the conversation beyond fascination and fear. Through hands-on education, experimentation, and community building, it gives creatives, builders, and emerging makers the tools to understand AI, work with it, and participate meaningfully in the systems taking shape around them. Our mission expands into a broader cultural conversation, bringing filmmakers, arti...
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Ent-Tech Atlanta - Day 4 (Innovation & Discovery Expo)

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Day 4 (Innovation & Discovery Expo) (Activity Schedule and Complete Event Details) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 -  10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Location: TBD Saturday turns toward innovation and the changing landscape of entertainment and storytelling. A series of interactive presentations will connect audiences directly with innovators, entrepreneurs and thought leaders working across entertainment, technology, and storytelling. Saturday will draw from the Alma Film Festival’s expansive global ecosystem of more than 150 stakeholders across 42 countries, bringing together innovators, entrepreneurs, technologists, filmmakers and thought leaders through both in-person and virtual participation. That network gives Ent-Tech a distinctly global perspective, connecting emerging ideas and technologies in Atlanta with voices, experiences and innovation from across the United States and the Global South. Ent-Tech is intentionally designed around interaction and discovery rather than a traditional tra...
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Ent-Tech Atlanta - Day 3 (The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit - Part 2)

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    Day 3 - The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 - Time: TBD Friday turns its attention to cinema as more than entertainment, examining its power as a vehicle for cultural intelligence, research and public discourse —and as an instrument through which communities can reclaim the authority to define themselves. Among the featured screenings is Je Suis Noire (Becoming a Black Woman) , directed by Rachel M’Bon and co-directed by Juliana Fanjul . The film won Best Documentary at the 2026 Alma Film Festival , where M’Bon—a Swiss filmmaker of German, Swiss and Congolese heritage—also became the inaugural recipient of the festival’s Dr. Cornel West Award for Global Truth & Cultural Conscience , recognizing artists whose work demonstrates moral courage, intellectual rigor and a sustained engagement with the human condition. The film also speaks to a larger cultural movement Alma has observed across the Global South, the African diaspora and communities around the wor...
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Ent-Tech Atlanta - Day 2 (Centering 1526: Symposium & Imbongi - The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit — Part 1)

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Day 2   Centering 1526: Symposium & Imbongi THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 - 9:25 AM–7:00 PM The Campus of Morehouse College / Atlanta University Center 830 Westview Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314 (The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit — Part 1) On Thursday, Morehouse College will present  Centering 1526: Symposium & Imbongi , a day of scholarship, cultural intelligence, and public dialogue examining 1526—and what changes when African and American histories are entered from a different starting point. Convened by the Department of Africana Studies and History at Morehouse College , in collaboration with the Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit, the program is shaped by the scholarship of Dr. Samuel T. Livingston , Associate Professor of Africana Studies, and the developing work surrounding the forthcoming edited volume Centering 1526: The Gullah-Geechee Origins of an Africana National Imagination . The project explores Africa and the African presence in the Americas; Gullah Geechee history and cult...
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Ent-Tech Atlanta - Day 1 (The Alma Experience)

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Day 1 (The Alma Experience) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 - 6:30 PM Palate Atlanta Tasting Room 339 Nelson St SW, Atlanta, GA 30313 The week opens under the umbrella of The Alma Experience , the Alma Film Festival’s global engagement and hospitality arm, with an intimate evening designed around connection, conversation, and carefully curated experiences. Hosted at Palate Atlanta Tasting Room , a boutique tasting room in Atlanta’s historic Castleberry Hill neighborhood, the evening will feature curated wine, craft food, and distinctive live performances in a setting built around craftsmanship, culture, and connection. The Alma Experience approaches hospitality as intentional experience design—creating environments where people from different industries, countries, and cultures have the space to meet organically, exchange ideas, and begin relationships that can extend well beyond the evening itself. Bringing together members of Alma’s international ecosystem with Atlanta’s creative, ac...
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Ent-Tech Atlanta - Five-Day Schedule at a Glance

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  Ent-Tech Atlanta -  Five-Day Schedule at a Glance September 30–October 4, 2026 | Atlanta Five days of culture, cinema, scholarship, emerging technology, performance, and global conversation presented by the Alma Film Festival . DAY 1 — WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 The Alma Experience 6:30 PM | Palate Atlanta Tasting Room | Castleberry Hill An opening evening of wine, food, performance, and connection featuring Channel Seven , Behind the Pour, and Blue Bistro Theatre featuring Robin Antoinette . Complete Day 1 Schedule → DAY 2 — THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit - Part 1 Centering 1526  11 AM–9 PM | Morehouse College A day of scholarship and cultural intelligence shaped by the research of Dr. Samuel T. Livingston , featuring a keynote from Ron Daise and an afternoon of think tanks, panels, roundtables, and symposia. Complete Day 2 Schedule → DAY 3 — FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit — Part 2  Time: TBD Cinema, cultural intelligence, and pu...
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Alma Film Festival Brings Five Days of Cinema, Cultural Inquiry and Emerging Technology to Atlanta

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Ent-Tech (Innovation & Discovery Expo) and the Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit will bring scholars, filmmakers, artists, innovators, and cultural leaders together September 30–October 4 for a cross-disciplinary gathering connecting Atlanta to an expanding international network. ATLANTA — The Alma Film Festival will bring its global platform to Atlanta September 30–October 4, 2026, for five days spanning cinema, scholarship, artificial intelligence, immersive media, cultural history, music, and international exchange. Presented through Ent-Tech (Innovation & Discovery Expo) and the Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit , the five-day gathering will span film screenings, public conversations, think tanks and symposia, emerging technology demonstrations, live performance and international exchange—inviting audiences not simply to observe, but to participate in conversations shaping culture, storytelling and the technologies transforming entertainment. The week opens Wednesday evening with an inti...
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