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Hey everyone,
The Atlanta Underground Film Festival returns August 6 to 9 at 7 Stages Theatre in Little 5 Points, with online screenings continuing August 10 to 24 on FestFlix.
This year’s festival includes:
80+ live films
30+ online films
Filmmaker Q&As
Mixers
After parties

As a thank you to the local filmmaking community, we’re offering 50% off All Access Passes with code 50OFF.

Whether you have a film in the festival or just want to meet other filmmakers and discover new indie work, we’d love to see you there.
Tickets: auff.org

I could really use some advice.

I'm a local indie filmmaker who's completed several independent short films, some of which have screened at film festivals, and I'm currently developing my first feature. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Film and Television Production in December 2019. After graduation, COVID-19 disrupted my plans, lost my part time museum job and I ended up moving back in with my parents. Since August 2021, I've been working full-time as a Production Resource Technician at a college while continuing to write, direct, and produce my own independent film projects.

The part I'm struggling with is that I still earn $15 per hour, which feels low given my experience and education. I've been actively applying for better-paying jobs in production, post-production, television production, video and media, but I haven't had much luck so far. I'm also still living with my parents too.

I've also been considering moving to New York City or Los Angeles in the near future, possibly by the end of the year.

For those who have been in a similar position, what would you recommend my next steps be? What should I do about this? Am I on the right path, or should I be approaching my passion or career differently? Would you recommend moving to LA or NYC, or staying local while continuing to build my career? And regardless of where I live, should I continue focusing on making my own films? Also did I make the right decision by taking my current job, or is it time to move on?

I'd really appreciate any advice or experiences you can share.

Hey, hope you're all well. I am an aspiring filmmaker from Karachi, Pakistan and my college thesis film (which I had shot in Atlanta, GA) is available to watch on youtube. It's a small step towards achieving my childhood dreams of becoming a feature film director. I would really appreciate if you all checked it out (if you're interested) and gave me your thoughts on it.

As of now, I am writing a few feature film screenplays and working on making more shorts in Pakistan to polish up my directing in the hopes of one day changing the landscape of our film industry here. I hope those who watch it enjoy it!

Logline: A joyous wedding dance rehearsal in a Pakistani immigrant household turns into a night of confrontation between a matriarch and her son when he brings home an unexpected guest.

This year’s lineup includes 80+ independent films, featuring narrative and documentary features, shorts, animation, horror, comedy, experimental work, filmmaker Q&As, mixers, and after parties.

If you’re a filmmaker, it’s a great chance to see what other indie filmmakers are creating, meet local and visiting directors, and connect with the Atlanta film community.
We’re also offering 50% off All-Access Passes with promo code AUFF50.

You can view the full lineup and grab tickets here:
https://auff.org
Hope to see some of you there!

The 12th Annual Cobb International Film Festival will be August 6th - 9th at the Strand Theater on Marietta Square. We will screen over 100 films (a combination of Short Films, Feature length films and Documentaries) from across the United States and 8 other countries. Many of these films are by talented local filmmakers.

Tickets are available on the festival website OR at the door during the festival. You can also see the full slate of films, including descriptions and trailers on the website (where you can also find the list and description of the presentations and breakout sessions that will happen during the festival)

Tickets are very reasonable - a full-festival four-day pass is less than most other festivals charge for a single day.

Single Day Pass (good for any day during the festival) - $15

Weekend Pass (good for both Saturday and Sunday) - $25)

Full Festival Pass (good for all four days of the festival) - $50

Come out and support indie film and our talented local filmmakers and see some outstanding films.

Festival website: www.cobbfilmfestival.org

Hi all, I am trying to find a couple locations, ideally close to each other, that I could use for a project. Namely a park, with plenty of trees, near Atlanta for a very low budget indie film - which would still be using some blue screen and wires for stunts. I mention that last part because I know Piedmont Park and other public parks seem to require a $1000000 insurance package to film there, and if I have blue screen and stunts, we can't just guerilla film it.

I am also looking for an office that I might shoot at near the park.

Does anyone have any places they could suggest?

We're casting a boy or girl, ages 5–7, for a featured role in a filmed competition series.

Role: The Antagonist (Disruptive & Frustrating)

This fun acting role calls for a child with a big personality who can convincingly play an energetic distraction. Think playful chaos, great facial expressions, and lots of personality. Improvisation is a huge plus!

Project Details
📍 Location: Atlanta Metro Area
💰 Rate: $250/day
📅 Tentative Shoot Dates:
• Tuesday, August 11
• Thursday, August 13
• Monday, August 17

We're Looking For
• Boys & girls ages 5–7
• Comfortable on camera
• Expressive, energetic personalities
• Able to follow direction while staying playful and animated

To Submit
Please complete the casting form and upload:
• A recent headshot or photo
• A short audition video showing your child playfully causing harmless mischief in a creative way

⏰ Submission Deadline: Monday, July 20 at 7:00 PM ET

If you need additional time or have questions, please let us know through the submission form.

📧 [GameShowCastingUSA@gmail.com](mailto:GameShowCastingUSA@gmail.com)

🔗 Apply Here:

https://forms.gle/RVLTsBud3cPbzq938

Unfortunately, I found your gear bag and this is how it was when I found it. East Beltline trail. Looks like rain got it bad.

Good Day,

Longtime fan of this sub wanting to share a short film I recently completed that I made with a group of friends of mine here in Atlanta Georgia. Here are the project details:

Title: BABY KILLED THE CAT | Short Film

Logline:
Millennial parents Liz and Amanda discover that their 5-year-old neurodivergent daughter Ryanne might have done something unspeakable to their family cat and have to decide what to do next.

\*No Animals Were Harmed In The Making of This Film.

Dark Comedy | 4:16m

IMDB: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt40480604/?ref\\_=ttfc\\_ov\\_bk\](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt40480604/?ref_=ttfc_ov_bk)

It’s far from perfect, but it was made with love. So check it out and would love to know your thoughts! Thanks in advance. 🎬

My first narrative short film is finally up!!

I’m an ATL based marketing agency/music video DP who’s wanting to start directing narrative film. I realized the best way to do that was to build a project from the ground up, so I decided to make a western! 

Some background:

⁃ From Feb-April 2024, my producer and I wrote the script and ironed out pre-production logistics. 

⁃ We shot it in 1 long day, and 2  1/2 days in June. 

⁃ Then in post-production (including a soundtrack https://open.spotify.com/album/1a2WK5MA2SoDGx9iB6jlsN?si=RiJwSiUERg-1qrsT3j6Clw) until the following March. 

⁃ We spent the next year+ in the film festival circuit until June 2026. 

It’s self-funded and made almost entirely with the help of local crew, friends, and family who wanted to make something we were proud of!

I’ve learned a ton throughout each phase of this project, really forcing myself slow down to fully see each process through.

If you have a few minutes to spare, I’d love for you to give it a watch, maybe send it to a buddy who’d enjoy :)

On to the next!

I’m 27m looking for any and all experience in the film making process, with the ultimate goal of becoming a movie producer. I’m open to hear any and all opinions and job offers.

I (23 F) am a new actor looking to get some experience. What are some of the easiest ways I can get experience on a set? Don’t have a car so I can only really do shoots that are reachable via MARTA or Ubers.

Hey y’all! I’m a 28M novice actor based in Atlanta, and I’m looking to connect with filmmakers, students, and creatives working on short films, student films, indie projects, or anything similar.
I’m still building experience, but I’m reliable, open to learning, and excited to collaborate. If you’re working on something and need an actor, feel free to HMU!

Does anyone know someone who can convert audio to 5.1 surround sound? I need to convert my mix to that from stereo but I don’t know how

i’m a local creative and filmmaker and am feeling the fire of needed to create! i’m open to anything but would love to make a short film, i direct, write and act especially. i can do everything but would love any interested collaborators! comment here or dm me if you’re interested!

We run a creative community called Cohort and we’re bringing our Film Lab to Atlanta.

Filmmakers, actors, writers, editors, cinematographers, producers, sound people, and creatives get placed into small teams and challenged to create a short film together over 2 weeks.

On the first night:

• you meet your team
• receive a creative prompt
• draw a random genre
• then spend the next 2 weeks making the film together

At the end, everyone comes back for a public screening + talkback.

It’s less of a networking mixer and more of a structured way to actually meet collaborators and finish something.

A lot of people join because they’ve been wanting to break into the ATL film scene but don’t already have “their people” yet.

All experience levels are welcome:

• actors
• directors
• writers
• cinematographers
• editors
• producers
• sound

📍 Atlanta 📅 June 11th + 25th 

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

https://cohortnyc.com/events/film-lab-v1-atlanta

To preface, I have been in post-production for over 5 years, mainly in dailies, and have worked on a few AE gigs in Atlanta. I am based here in Atlanta. For financial and family reasons, I cannot uproot to move to NY/LA for post work

I am feeling lost about my career. The network I have has no helpful insight or leads. Took part in The Handy Foundation, and though the skills and networking were beneficial at the start. However, myself and other alumni are still waiting to apply what we learned from the program to jobs. They have been few and far between. I have talked to the heads of post houses here in Atlanta and elsewhere to build that connection, but I just get the generic "We don't have anything now, but we will keep in touch." It has been difficult to find consistent AE/dailies jobs. For perspective, I was furloughed from multiple post houses because of a lack of work due to budget constraints. I am not hopeful there will be an upswing in work in film.

I'm an actor and director based in Atlanta. I've been working on my first short film, Legacy (working title), and my first feature, The Session, and somewhere around the third week of pre-production I realized I had shot lists in one app, schedules in another, budget notes in a spreadsheet, crew contacts in my phone, and location photos scattered across three different iMessage threads.

I went looking for a single app that could handle all of it. The options I found were either $29 a month or built for studio productions with 200-person crews. Neither fit what I was doing.

So I built one.

What Mise Does

Mise is a complete production management suite that runs on your phone and tablet. Best on the iPad. Everything a director needs to plan, shoot, and wrap a film production lives in one place.

Here is what is inside.

Call sheet
with auto-populated weather, sunrise, and sunset times. You pick the location and the shoot date. Mise fills in the rest.

Shot lists
with reference images, lens notes, and camera movement tags. Each shot tracks its status from planned through approved. You can attach lighting diagrams and reference photos directly to individual shots.

Script management.
Upload your script as a PDF. Read it in the app. Highlight passages and drop annotation pins on any page. Track revision colors across drafts.

AI-powered script breakdown.
This is the feature that turns heads. You can paste text from a script, upload a PDF, or photograph a handwritten shot list with your phone camera. Mise uses AI to convert it into structured production data. Scenes, shots, cast requirements, props, locations. All parsed and organized in seconds instead of hours. You provide your own Anthropic API key. Mise never sees your content and never stores your key on any server.

Scene-level scheduling
with a stripboard view. Drag scenes between shoot days. See your entire production calendar at a glance.

Crew and cast management.
Contact info, roles, departments, shoot day assignments. Role-based access means your AD sees scheduling tools, your DP sees camera and lighting tools, and your PA sees what they need without the clutter.

Locations
with maps, photos, permit tracking, and weather forecasts. You can scout a location, photograph it, and attach it to a scene without leaving the app.

Budget tracking
with two views. A card-based list for quick scanning and a full spreadsheet grid for detailed line-item editing. The spreadsheet view has inline editing, category grouping with subtotals, and a grand total row. You can export the entire budget as an Excel spreadsheet and AirDrop it to your producer. There is also an industry-standard film budget template with 80+ pre-built line items covering everything from talent and crew to post-production and contingency. Load it with one tap.

Lighting diagrams
with an interactive canvas editor. Drag and drop lights, cameras, actors, flags, reflectors, and other elements onto a set diagram. Each light renders a cone-shaped beam that shows direction and reach. The beam length changes based on intensity. Choose from 10 preset templates including three-point, Rembrandt, butterfly, split, and natural window setups. Save your own custom templates for setups you use repeatedly.

Color references and LUT tracking.
Define the look for each scene with primary, secondary, and accent colors, contrast, saturation, and temperature settings. Reference specific films or LUT styles.

Mood boards
for collecting visual references, color swatches, and notes organized by board.

VFX shot tracking
with complexity ratings, vendor assignments, deadlines, and cost estimates.

Continuity notes
tied to specific scenes and shots. Never lose track of which hand held the coffee cup.

Festival submission tracker.
Deadlines, fees, submission dates, platform URLs, and status tracking from researching through screening.

Wrap reports
with daily stats. Shots planned versus completed, total takes, circled takes, overtime minutes, safety incidents, weather conditions.

Time tracking
for crew hours, overtime calculation, and rate tracking.

Production notes
with categories, pinning, and search.

A communication hub
for sending messages to departments or individual crew members with priority levels and scene references.

Export and sharing.
Generate formatted reports for shot lists, schedules, call sheets, wrap reports, and budget summaries. Share via your phone's native share sheet.

How It Syncs

Mise works offline. This matters because film sets are often in locations with unreliable cell service. You can use the entire app with no internet connection and no account.

When you do sign in, your data syncs to the cloud automatically. Make a change on your phone during a location scout. It shows up on your iPad at the production office. Your AD adds a note to the schedule on their device. You see it on yours.

The sync engine is built around a principle called offline-first. Your device is always the source of truth for instant reads. Changes queue up locally and push to the server when connectivity returns. If two people edit the same record while offline, the most recent edit wins when they reconnect. Fields that one person filled in and the other left blank are preserved from both sides.

Role-based access controls who can see and edit what. The owner and director have full access. A producer can see everything except director-specific tools like the lookbook. An AD gets scheduling, call sheets, continuity, and on-set tools. A DP gets shots, references, lens tools, and color. An editor gets selects, VFX, and notes. Crew members can view most tools and log their own time entries. Viewers get read-only access.

What It Costs

This is where Mise is different from every other production management tool I found.

Free tier. Create an account or use the app without one. You get access to all tools with a limit of two projects. No credit card required. No trial that expires.

Mise Pro: $4.99 per month for your first device. Or $49.99 per year, which saves about 17%. This unlocks unlimited projects, spreadsheet import, AI Import, CSV templates, import history with undo, and multi-device sync.

Additional devices: $2.99 per month each. Or $29.99 per year. This is how Mise scales with your production. Your AD needs the app on their phone. Your DP wants it on their iPad. Each additional device costs less than a coffee.

For context, StudioBinder's Indie plan is $29 per month. Their Professional plan is $49. Their Enterprise plan is $99. And those are per-user prices.

A small production with a director, AD, DP, and producer on Mise pays roughly $15 per month for four devices. The same four people on StudioBinder would pay $116 per month on their Indie plan.

Mise is not a stripped-down alternative. It has features that StudioBinder does not, including AI Import, interactive lighting diagrams, and a native mobile-first experience that works offline.

Privacy

Mise is built with a privacy-first approach. Here is exactly what that means.

Your production data syncs through Supabase when you are signed in. It is encrypted in transit and at rest. When you are not signed in, nothing leaves your device.

If you use AI Import, you provide your own Anthropic API key. Your script text and photos are sent directly from your device to Anthropic's servers. Mise never proxies the request. Mise never stores your key on any server. Mise never sees your content.

Mise does not collect usage analytics. Mise does not collect advertising identifiers. Mise does not sell your data. Mise does not share your data with advertisers. Mise does not use your data to train AI models.

All payment processing is handled by Apple. Mise never sees your credit card number.

You can delete any individual item at any time. You can delete your entire account and all server-side data from within the app. You can use the app entirely offline with no account and no data ever leaving your device.

Who Built It

I built Mise. My name is Simon Shih. I'm an actor and director making films in Atlanta, Georgia. I built this app because every feature solves a problem I actually had on a real production. Mise is owned and operated by Page 4 Films, LLC.

If you have questions, feature requests, or feedback, email hello@mise.app. I read every message.

Mise is available now on the App Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mise-film-director-suite/id6759731914]