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The Alma Film Festival Quarterly Update - Our Principles in Practice

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  Blue Bistro Creative is a cultural strategy and infrastructure platform operating at the intersection of storytelling, technology, and economic development.  We exist to solve a structural gap in the global creative economy: extraordinary cultural output is being generated across emerging markets, particularly throughout the Global South, but it remains undercapitalized, under-networked, and disconnected from scalable economic opportunity.  Our model is designed to close that gap.  Through platforms like the Alma Film Festival and our broader ecosystem-including innovation expos, summits, and workforce initiatives-we aggregate talent, convene cross-sector stakeholders, and activate markets in a coordinated, system-level way.  What differentiates us is that we don't operate isolated programs-we build integrated infrastructure. That includes cultural platforms, talent pipelines, market access pathways, and community-based economic participation, all aligned with...
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Ent-Tech (Innovation & Discovery Expo) Opens Vendor Registration for Inaugural Atlanta Launch

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Entertainment-technology platform will connect startups, creative entrepreneurs, media innovators, and Global South creative markets with Atlanta’s film, technology, and entrepreneurship ecosystem. ATLANTA, GA — Ent-Tech (Innovation & Discovery Expo) , the entertainment-technology division of the Alma Film Festival , is now inviting startups, emerging businesses, creative entrepreneurs, technology companies, media platforms, educational organizations, community innovators, and aligned vendors to participate as exhibitors in its inaugural year. Approved startup exhibitors may register at the Founding Startup Rate of $250 through July 15 . After July 15, the standard startup vendor fee will be $500 . Launching this fall, Ent-Tech is designed as a four-day cultural and creative economy experience connecting entertainment, technology, storytelling, entrepreneurship, media innovation, and global cultural exchange. The platform will convene a high-value mix of founders, creators, invest...
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A Renaissance of Reclamation - Film, Technology, and the Making of a Global Cinematic Agenda

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Film, Technology, and the Making  of a Global Cinematic Agenda   Ent-Tech (Innovation & Discovery Expo) x Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit Presented by the Alma Film Festival Each year, the Alma Film Festival extends its work across two distinct but interconnected cultural geographies: the Dominican Republic in March and Atlanta in the fall. Together, these gatherings form a year-round platform for cinema, scholarship, cultural diplomacy, and creative economy development. This fall, the festival comes to Atlanta with Ent-Tech (Innovation & Discovery Expo) x Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit , a four-day convening designed to examine the future of storytelling at the intersection of history, technology, culture, and global systems change. Taking place Wednesday, September 30 through Saturday, October 3, the event positions Atlanta not merely as a host city, but as a strategic site for inquiry, exchange, and institutional imagination. The fall program opens on Wednesday, Septemb...
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Alma Film Festival Deepens Global South Platform with Nigerian Short Film Showcase Curated by Lesi Nwisagbo

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Atlanta, GA — Alma Film Festival is advancing its global cultural platform with a special curation of Nigerian short films by Lesi Nwisagbo , spotlighting one of the world’s most vital and influential storytelling markets. The showcase will feature short films from Nigerian filmmakers whose work reflects the country’s cultural depth, creative range, and narrative traditions. Home to more than 250 ethnic groups, Nigeria remains one of the most dynamic creative forces in global cinema. The curation will consider films exploring urban life, rural communities, folklore, identity, family, innovation, history, and contemporary Nigerian experience. Nwisagbo, who will lead the special curation, is an industry advocate with a deep understanding of the Nigerian film landscape and the cultural, regional, and creative forces that shape it. Her perspective brings valuable insight to a showcase designed to reflect the complexity, imagination, and lived realities of Nigerian storytellers. “Nigeria p...
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The Alma Film Festival Launches Workforce Readiness Initiative Through the Dandelion Institute

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 New Hands-On Training Workshops Aim to Prepare Local Talent for Opportunities Within the Growing Film Industry Across the Samaná Peninsula Para leer esto en español, haga clic aquí. LAS TERRENAS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — The Alma Film Festival has officially announced the launch of its Workforce Readiness Initiative , a new professional training platform presented through the Dandelion Institute , the festival’s workforce development and educational division dedicated to expanding pathways into the film, television, and creative industries. Developed in response to the increasing production activity taking place throughout the Dominican Republic and the Samaná Peninsula, the initiative introduces a series of intensive workshops designed to help prepare emerging local talent for entry-level positions within professional film and television productions. The inaugural workshop series will take place in Las Terrenas this July and will focus on two foundational areas of production: P rodu...
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Registration Now Open for the First Frame Film Academy — A Free Youth Filmmaking Program in Samaná

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Para leer esto en español, haga clic aquí. Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic — The Alma Film Festiva l is proud to announce that registration is now officially open for the First Frame Film Academy , a free immersive youth filmmaking initiative of the Dandelion Institute designed to introduce young creatives to the world of filmmaking, storytelling, and media production. The First Frame Film Academy is a one-week intensive program where students ages 10–18 will learn the complete filmmaking process — from story development and screenwriting to production, editing, marketing, and final film delivery. The program will take place daily from 12:30 PM to 5:00 PM and will be taught primarily in Spanish, with English curriculum support also available. The First Frame Film Academy will feature guidance from a dynamic network of local and international film professionals, including filmmaker Alfredo J. Williams, who will serve as one of the program’s instructors. Alongside hands-on in-person t...
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