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

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 ...

Day 1 -  (Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 12 Noon  |  Georgia State University Speaker’s Auditorium -Student Center East First Floor, Room 120. Located at  55 Gilmer Street SE, Atlanta, GA 30303  Special Screening - Je Suis Noires (Becoming A Black Woman) Ent-Tech Atlanta begins with cinema—and a question: Who gets to define identity, history, and belonging? Directed by Rachel M’Bon and co-directed by Juliana Fanjul , Je Suis Noires (Becoming a Black Woman) explores the experiences of Black women in Switzerland through questions of race, womanhood, visibility, and belonging. The film received Best Documentary at the 2026 Alma Film Festival , where M’Bon became the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Cornel West Award for Global Truth & Cultural Conscience . Following the screening, Alahna Lark, Executive Director of Signify TV; Dr. Rashana Lydner, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Georgia State University; and Tallulah Patricia Bär, ...

  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 12 Noon | The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit - Part 1  Special Screening & Community Discussion Georgia State University's Speaker’s Auditorium  Student Center East - First Floor, Room 120. Located at  55 Gilmer Street SE, Atlanta, GA 30303  A special screening of the award-winning film Je Suis Noire (Becoming a Black Woman) by Swiss filmmakers Rachel M’Bon and Juliana Fanjul , followed by a community discussion exploring the nuances of culture, identity, and lived experience. This event is sponsored by Georgia State University’s Honors College, with co-sponsorship from the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Center for Studies on Africa a...

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...

  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...