2021 Macon Film Festival

Georgia Made

Title: TRAFFICKED
Director: Doug Stroup
Run Time: 10:17
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: “My name is Anna Davis… and this is my story”. At the young age of 13, Anna Davis was enticed on social media by a trafficker using a fake profile. She was drawn into his web, kidnapped and trafficked. She lived a nightmare that she “could not wake up from” until she was rescued. She is now on the witness stand in a court of law, where she tells her story in hopes that there is enough evidence to convict her trafficker and sentence him to jail.

Title: CLEAN SLATE
Director: Jared Callahan
Run Time: 95:00
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: Language, Drug Use
Synopsis: Executive produced by Alex Lehmann (Paddleton, Blue Jay), CLEAN SLATE follows two friends in a drug recovery program in the American South struggling to come to terms with their addiction and mental illness by making a short film about the pain they’ve caused their families.

For more information, visit the CLEAN SLATE website.

Georgia Made: SAPELO
Director: Nick Brandestini
Run Time: 91:00
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: Sapelo is a documentary that journeys within a unique American island to tell the story of its matriarchal griot, Cornelia Walker Bailey, and her adopted sons coming of age in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee people.

For more information visit the SAPELO website.

Georgia Made - Narrative Shorts Block 

Title: DIVORCE STORY
Director: Alex Parkinson
Run Time: 3:50
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: In the midst of a bitter argument, Glen and Sarah discover what drove them apart -- and what will keep them together.

Title: PERCHANCE TO DREAM
Director: Megan Hayes
Run Time: 13:51
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Helen has settled into middle age, her job, her boyfriend, and her insomnia… until she meets Larry, her local barista and fellow insomniac, and sparks a friendship that fills the wee hours of the night with F. Scott Fitzgerald, ducks, and zero ZZZZs.

Title: LAUNDRY DAY
Director: Olamma Oparah
Run Time: 04:25
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: When mother and daughter are at odds, a visitor from their past intervenes to remind them to clean their dirty laundry.

Title: DISTURBANCE
Director: Ryan Blount
Run Time: 05:41
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: A young police officer discovers a dark secret at a seemingly ordinary suburban home.

Title: BROTHERS BLOOD
Director: Chris Stanford
Run Time: 23:00
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: After 5 years in prison, Shawn returns home intent on cleansing the bad blood between him and his family. Brothers Blood explores the depths of betrayal and the fight to make a better life for the ones you love.

Title: ARMISTICE
Director: Lee Bailey
Run Time: 16:31
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: In late 1944, an American paratrooper attempts to find his line near the Belgian-German border. His unique, precarious situation forces him to make unthinkable moral decisions. The ripple effects from those decisions have immediate and life long ramifications.

Title: COMPLICATED
Director: James Faucett
Run Time: 07:20
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: "Complicated" is a lighthearted comedy in which a talent agent named Joe tries to convince the agency's top actor, a girl named Riley, to renew her contract. Along the way he discovers that beneath Riley’s impossible initial demands is an even more problematic one: that he get back together with her mother.

Title: STANDING OVATION
Director: Chase Gutzmore
Run Time: 19:47
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Charles Henderson has been cast as the lead in a play about slavery written and directed by acclaimed director Kurt Santiago. Charles is talented and determined, but Kurt is willing to do whatever it takes to get the best performance out of his actors to ensure his reputation, even if that means sinking into the dark abyss of an actors mind to pull out the truest of emotions and pain required for this soulful character.

Title: LANDLOCKED
Director: Timothy Hall
Run Time: 83:00
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings:  Language
Synopsis: A man reunites with his estranged, transgender father as they journey to scatter his late mother's ashes off the Georgia coast. "Landlocked" marks the feature film debut of transgender actress, Delia Kropp, in the lead role of Briana.

Title: SAVING JULIETTE
Director: Evey Wilson Wetherbee
Run Time: 40:00
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None

Synopsis: The high cancer rates became town folklore in Juliette, Ga. Neighbors saw homes demolished, wells filled with concrete, and padlocks with the power company logo on the property gates. The 40-minute investigative documentary Saving Juliette follows residents soon after they’ve learned that their drinking water is contaminated by a leaking coal ash pond at the local power plant - the largest coal-fired power plant in the US. The residents around the plant don’t have access to city or county water lines. They’ve relied on water from their wells for decades.

This film takes viewers into intimate moments in people's kitchens and heated community meetings in Churches, as residents share their own health issues and fears around the polluted water.
“Saving Juliette” is a story of what happens when people galvanize their community, question their political leanings, and work to hold their representatives accountable, all in an effort to answer a question asked in the film by Juliette resident Gloria Hammond: “Will it ever be good water again?”