About the Georgia Film Academy

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[Music][Rose Sellers] I have a big family come from a family of six kids, so we didn't always get along, but movies have always been the one thing that brought us together.

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 [Gladys Edeh] I was working 9 to5 but I had dreams of  going to LA or New York because I felt that's where the jobs were.

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 [Wendy Quinn Guttin] What the state of Georgia decided to do to address the workforce needs for the film industry

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 was not build a brick-and-mortar film school but instead to utilize

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 existing resources of the University System of Georgia,

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The Technical College System of Georgia um and create a Consortium.

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[Chuck Kerr] We have over 30 partners and to to have that at you know that availability in 
you know opportunity across the state of Georgia is just like it's a gift.

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 [Julio Saldarriaga] I moved to this country 
like 23 years ago with the passion and the dream

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to be a film producer director and then I started discovering that there was this all sort of crafts

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and and these other jobs that you could do in a movie that were fascinating.

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[Darius Evans] We're able to help shape the thoughts of the students in terms of what direction they want to go in the industry

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and exactly where they want to go in terms of uh the Specialties that GFA offers.

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[Gladys Edeh] For me, it helped me be successful because it gave me the access 
and the confidence to apply for such jobs.

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[Rose Sellers] Do I want to have an office job for the rest of my life or do I want to like create and definitely create.

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[Zach Breder] I mean day one we started with equipment how to set up a C stand and cameras and we I mean we

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worked with black magic cameras today that you know are really freaking cool top of the line cameras. [Music]

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[Michael Wells] So the students we're teaching them 
how to be effective communicators how to be

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a competent team members how to be confident and have the skill sets that they need to excel in the industry.

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 [Zach Breders] Being able to tell your story I 
mean and there's so many ways you can do it even

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if you're a lighting person you can tell a story through the way you set your lights.

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[Wendy Quinn Guttin] We offer are currently three certification Pathways in film and 
television production in post-production and in

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Digital entertainment Esports and game development.

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They're taking classes with people from all over  the state they become their own networks they work 
on their own projects together and they're really able to to build that that base.

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 [Nicole Gillard] I didn't know anything about the film industry and you watch

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these things and you love them and they touch your 
heart and you sit there and you think like how

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does somebody ever get into something like that 
and then you come here and you get a internship opportunity that puts you right there.

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 [Eddie Evans] If you get an internship this is the the big prize you get

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to meet people who actually work in the business 
and that's the hardest thing in any in the film

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business in wherever you live getting your foot in 
the door is the hardest thing.

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[Kate McArdle] We will take you and we will put you on a Marvel movie we will put you 
on an NBC Universal show we also have instructors

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who are industry professionals and they can and do introduce students to many more opportunities

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for training and entry level jobs so that's I think what's different about us.

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[Eddie Evans] So this gets your foot in the door.

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[Darius Evans] GFA's been important to Georgia 
and it continues to be important because it is the conduit for the future of our Workforce it's 
the building block of the workforce.

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[Cassandra Hollis] You have this  combination of um outstanding career veterans with 
unbelievable experience in this industry combined

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with a passion for teaching coming into our class 
rooms teaching our students is just a unique, rare  opportunity.

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 [Nick Whitmire] There's no better place to start in 
this industry than GFA.

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[Gladys Edeh] Without GFA I would not be where I am today.

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[Julio Saldarriaga] They have a passion and they're 
eager to be part of like this beautiful industry.

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[Chuck Kerr] My ultimate goal is I want to see their name on the big screen.

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 [Zach Breders] There's so many ways to add your own personal touch to everything in film and 
I'd like to see what I can do with that. [Music]