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UPDATE: ATTENTION SAVANNAH MOVIE GOERS, we are thrilled to announce that Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” will be shown right here in Savannah at AMC CLASSIC Savannah 11 beginning 1/25 - 1/31! The film was shot heavily in our region, featuring some of your favorite crew, locations, vendors, and Savannahians! Please check the AMC website now for specific showtimes and to purchase tickets in advance! Read More

Isle of Hope is about Victoria, a university professor who has a grudge with her self-absorbed mother, the well-known actress, Carmen Crawford, for crushing her dreams of becoming a playwright. But when Carmen suffers a life threatening stroke and wakes up thinking she is living 15 years in the past, Victoria is given a unique opportunity to figure out where her life went off track and reconcile her relationship with her mother. Read More

Ava DuVernay’s Origin, which filmed in Savannah, wowed audiences at the Venice Film Festival. Receiving a nine-minute standing ovation following it’s screening, DuVernay made history as the first film by a Black female director from the U.S. to be included in Venice’s official competition across the event’s 80-year duration!

May December is set to premier in US movie theaters on Nov 17th and available to stream on Netflix , in the US only, on Dec 1st! Read More

The official trailer for The Color Purple the musical has been released.

The film is the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel by the same name and portrays the horrific hardships of an African American woman living in the south in the early 1900s.

Parts of the film were shot last year all over the Savannah region. See if you can recognize any of our locations in the trailer.

The film is set to release in theaters this Christmas!