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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...

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, September 30...

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...