![]() ![]() Her goal is to become a script supervisor, so to prepare she has taken advanced classes in film and video production. Rachel Crump, a student at Georgia Film Institute, attends a class on grip and lighting. The widowed mother of four and former restaurant manager decided to go back to school and start a new career after her youngest child started college. The academy will complement programs already in place, like those at Southern Crescent Technical College's Georgia Film Institute.įifty-year-old Rachel Crump is currently a student there. ![]() The academy will help place students who complete their certifications, and for the best students it hopes to place them in work-study programs that would provide them with hands-on experience, or provide them with a chance to shadow a professional to get a close-up view of what working in the industry is like. It will also help retrain experienced workers like electricians and carpenters on how they can employ their skills in film. Wes Craven: 6 Times the Horror Movie Maestro Scared Us to Death The academy will offer certification programs for entry positions in the industry, through one- or two-semester courses. Thomas said the program is a partnership with the university system of Georgia and the state's technical college system. To help address the labor shortage, the state is launching a certification program at the Georgia Film Academy this academic year. "As a studio we've been working with the other studios and the government and the lieutenant governor's office to institute more trade training for film and television production jobs in Georgia." or New York and have to pay their housing and per diem and everything else," said Kris Bagwell, executive vice president of EUE/Screen Gems Studios of Atlanta. "It's a lot cheaper for production to hire local talent than to bring folks from L.A. ![]() The governor's High Demand Initiative Report noted the industry needed people trained, among other things as animators, artists, cinematographers, costume designers, forklift operators, plasterers and story boarders. Nathan Deal, industry executives said they wanted to hire talent in Georgia but found they were forced to recruit out of state. According to a 2014 report published by the office of Gov. ![]()
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