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

The Alma Experience brings theatre, wine, fashion, music, and technology-infused improv to Castleberry Hill on September 30 ATLANTA, GA — The Alma Film Festival will present My Father’s Dream , a short play by Anthony R. Page and S. Denise Couba, during The Alma Experience: Opening Night on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. The evening takes place at Palate Atlanta Tasting Room, 339 Nelson St SW , in Atlanta’s historic Castleberry Hill neighborhood, as part of the Ent-Tech Atlanta Innovation & Discovery Expo . Set in the summer of 1967, My Father’s Dream unfolds in the kitchen of a widowed Atlanta mother. As one daughter fights to reopen her late father’s restaurant and her brother is drawn toward a more radical response to the changing world around him, the family confronts grief, generational responsibility, and competing visions of the future. At its heart, the play asks what it costs—and what it takes—to keep a dream alive. Presented by Blue Bistro Theatre , the p...

The Alma Film Festival brings theatre, fashion, music, and conversation to Castleberry Hill during the Ent-Tech Atlanta Innovation & Discovery Expo ATLANTA, GA — What makes us human—and how do art, culture, and technology shape the answer? The Alma Film Festival will bring that question to the stage during The Alma Experience: Culture, Cocktails & Conversation , taking place Saturday, October 3, 2026, beginning at 6:30 p.m. , at Palate Atlanta Tasting Room, 339 Nelson St SW , in Atlanta’s historic Castleberry Hill neighborhood. Part of the Ent-Tech Atlanta Innovation & Discovery Expo , the evening combines live theatre, musical performances, fashion, improv, and a magazine cover reveal in a setting designed for conversation and connection. At its center is a return engagement of Adira De La Croix 6.0 , an Afrofuturistic drama by Anthony R. Page, presented by Blue Bistro Theatre with support from Panta Rhei , a Greek voice and movement theatre company, and the Georgia Stat...

Featured in Je Suis Noires, Zurich-based cultural advocate Tallulah Patricia brings her perspective on Black womanhood in Switzerland to a public screening and conversation at Georgia State University. ATLANTA — Georgia State University’s Honors College will host a free public screening and discussion of Je Suis Noires (Becoming a Black Woman) on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, at noon in the university’s Speaker’s Auditorium. Traveling from Zurich, Switzerland, Tallulah Patricia , a cultural advocate featured in the documentary, will join Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Alahna Lark and Georgia State scholar Dr. Rashana Vikara Lydner for a conversation with the audience about womanhood, representation, and belonging in Switzerland and the United States. Directed by Rachel M’Bon and Juliana Fanjul , the documentary follows M’Bon’s exploration of Black womanhood in Switzerland alongside the experiences of other Black women. Their accounts confront structural racism, challenge stereotype...

The Emancipation of Limits and Sundays After Church anchor a closer look at independent entertainment financing. ATLANTA — CineBlock Films  will present a live demonstration featuring two productions it currently represents— The Emancipation of Limits and Sundays After Church —during Alma Film Festival’s Ent-Tech Innovation & Discovery Expo on Saturday, October 3, 2026. The expo takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hilton Atlanta, 255 Courtland Street NE, with Sharif Bennett representing CineBlock. The program brings audiences into direct contact with innovators working across entertainment, technology, and storytelling. CineBlock Films helps filmmakers navigate the business behind their stories with tools for campaign setup, investor onboarding, payment processing, and tracking—connecting financing with audience participation. Their marketplace connects creators seeking financing with audiences interested in investing in entertainment projects. Its live demonstration will ...

Directed by Rachel M’Bon and Juliana Fanjul, the documentary received Alma’s Best Documentary award, while M’Bon received the inaugural Dr. Cornel West Award for Global Truth & Cultural Conscience. ATLANTA —   The Alma Film Festival will present a series of screenings and public conversations around Je Suis Noires (Becoming a Black Woman) , directed by Rachel M’Bon and Juliana Fanjul , during Ent-Tech (Innovation and Discovery Expo), September 30–October 4, 2026 . Since first presenting the film, Alma has continued a conversation about identity, race, womanhood, belonging, and the experiences of Black women across national and cultural boundaries. On May 30, 2026, Alma presented a private screening of Je Suis Noires at Palate Atlanta Tasting Room for a gathering of executive and professional women. The screening was followed by a community conversation in which attendees reflected on the film and their own experiences of race, gender, professional life, and cultural identity...

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 reshapes culture, creativity, and commerce, who will have the power to define 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. Co-founders Darion Do'Anjou and Gheri Thomas will facilitate the day’s discussions and serve as featured presenters, guiding conversations around access, innovation, and the evolving role of artificial intelligence in culture and society. AIMG moves the conversation beyond fascination and fear. Through hands-on education, experimentation, and community building...

ATLANTA — Ent-Tech Atlanta steps beyond the expo floor on Saturday, October 3, with The Alma Experience:  Culture, Cocktails & Conversation , the week’s signature social event. The evening will feature a premiere performance by Channel Seven , a fashion presentation from Maison Zaccheus Miles , award-winning boutique theater from Blue Bistro Theatre , and an Impact Atlanta International Magazine cover reveal honoring Runway Diva Shay, a soulful vocal performance by LyriQ Lashay,  plus an innovative improv experience by Act A Fool. Saturday, October 3 | Time: 6:30 PM - Until Palate Atlanta Tasting Room 339 Nelson St SW, Atlanta, GA 30313 Purchase Tickets Here The Evening Special Features Include: Channel Seven brings Hampton Roads’ creative pulse to Alma with a genre-blurring mix of sound, style, and performance. Special Musical Guest — Channel Seven From Hampton Roads, Virginia, Channel Seven arrives with a creative vocabulary that refuses neat categories. Founded by C...

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 on the 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 th...

Day 2   Centering 1526: Symposium & Imbongi THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 - 11:00 AM – 1:00 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 Alma Film Festival's Ent-Tech (Innovation & Discovery Expo), 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 ...