Festival attendees can expect a Labor Day Weekend to remember!

Please join us for the many events that we will be hosting during the 2008 Jokara-Micheaux Film Festival.  There will be many family friendly films, stimulating symposiums and workshops, events, receptions and parties – all for your enjoyment. You will experience how film can make a difference in enhancing a community and you’ll share in the vision of the festival which is to provide a setting that showcases this beautiful place in Georgia as ideal for developing a viable and profitable film industry business.    

• Come and meet the professionals that make filmmaking exciting and successful.
   
• Learn about what goes into film making, how we can learn from the past movie industry experience, what is in store for the industry in the future.
   
• Discover beautiful Southwest Georgia -- filled with picturesque small towns, their own unique southern way of life, beautiful historic treasures, and protected natural resources.
   
• Come and take pictures with the stars and get your personal autographs 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M.

Have a great time attending the events and don’t miss the Early County 2055 ‘It’s Happening Here’ Block Party:  Saturday, August 30, 2008 in Blakely, GA. The Block Party festivities will be located at the Blakely Courthouse Square, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. There will be a feature film screening of Amazing Grace by Ken Wales at 10:00A.M. at the Blakely Cineplex.

General admission is free and this includes the film screenings, workshops and symposiums and the Saturday Block Party in Blakely, GA. 

The cost of the festival breakfast events is $10 per breakfast. Lunch is on your own.

 Reserve a seat or table at the Black Tie Celebrity Dinner, $100.00 per person or $750 for table that seats eight. The Lena Baker Story will be the premiere screening.

Contact the Festival Office at (229) 758-8188 or (229) 758-8833 for more information.