The North Atlanta Film Festival is a regional film festival dedicated to discovering and supporting emerging filmmakers, showcasing student and independent short films that demonstrate creativity, originality, and strong storytelling.
Hosted at You42 Studios, a working production facility, the festival brings filmmakers and audiences together in the same creative spaces where content is produced. Official selections are screened throughout the facility, with featured screenings presented in You42 Studios’ 200-seat theater and additional selections shown across its themed microstudios, creating a unique festival experience that extends beyond a traditional theater setting.
Films are organized into curated screening blocks, giving audiences the opportunity to discover a wide range of filmmakers, genres, and creative voices while exploring You42 Studios’ immersive production environment.
Designed around discovery, connection, and emerging talent, the festival brings together live screenings, filmmaker conversations, opportunities to connect with fellow creatives, and a closing awards ceremony celebrating standout work from the festival.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF FESTIVAL SETTING
You42 Studios is an immersive indoor cityscape filled with production spaces, themed sets, creative environments, and a full-scale theater. During the North Atlanta Film Festival, these spaces become part of the festival itself.
Guests can move throughout the facility, discovering films screening in different rooms and experiencing independent cinema within the same spaces normally used to create film, video, podcasts, photography, and digital content.
Rather than limiting the festival to a single screen, NAFF creates a multi-room screening experience, with films playing throughout the venue.
SCREENINGS THROUGHOUT THE STUDIO
Films are organized into curated screening blocks and presented across multiple spaces throughout You42 Studios.
The main theater serves as the festival's largest screening space, while select microstudios are transformed into intimate screening rooms, giving audiences another way to discover official selections as they explore the facility.
CELEBRATING EMERGING FILMMAKERS
At its core, the North Atlanta Film Festival is about giving emerging filmmakers a place to have their work seen.
Student filmmakers, independent creators, and new voices from North Atlanta and beyond come together for a day centered on original films, creative discovery, and the people making what's next.