Anthony R. Page (Film - TV - Theater - Photography - Design - Advocacy)

Day 5 (Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit - Part 5) 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 filmmak...

Day 4 (Innovation & Discovery Expo) (Activity Schedule and Complete Event Details) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 -  10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Hilton Hotel Atlanta - Downstairs 255 Courtland St NE, Atlanta, GA 30303 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 ar...

    Day 3 -  (Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit - Part 3) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 - Time: 11:30 AM - 2 PM Nikolai's Roof at 30th Floor @Hilton Hotel Atlanta 255 Courtland St NE, Atlanta, GA 30303 Entertainment in the Age of AI: Leadership, Innovation & Human Potential Join Jackie Chambers de Freitas, VP, AI Delivery & Transformation, Salesforce , for an executive conversation on how artificial intelligence is reshaping entertainment, creative work, collaboration, and leadership. Drawing on three decades in technology and transformation, Jackie brings a deeply human perspective to how leaders can navigate rapid change, create meaningful value, and ensure historically underrepresented communities help shape what comes next. Presented in her personal capacity, the conversation reflects Jackie’s individual experience and leadership perspective. At its heart is a defining question of the AI era: how do we keep human potential, access, creativity, and purpose at the center of the fu...

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 2) 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...

Day 1 -  (Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 4:00 PM  |  Cinefest (on the Campus of Georgia State University) 66 Courtland St SE #262, Atlanta, GA 30303 Special Screening - Je Suis Noires (Becoming A Black Woman) 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 Noires (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 wit...

  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 Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit - Part 1  Special Screening & Community Discussion 4:00 PM | Cinefest - on the Campus of Georgia State University Cinema, cultural intelligence, and public discourse take center stage, including Rachel M’Bon and Juliana Fanjul’s Je Suis Noire (Becoming a Black Woman) and a recorded conversation exploring the Renaissance of Reclamation . 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 . Complete Day 1 Schedule → DAY 2 — THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit - Part 2 Centering 1526  11 AM–9 PM | Morehouse Coll...