For filmmakers
The Backlot: A Place for Film, a group for people interested in making movies, meets every third Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Heritage House in at 1428 Jenkins Road. Film Festivals * Chattanooga Film Festival April 2-5, 2015 Various locations with most happening at the Majestic 12 downtown $100-$300 * Lookout Wild Film FestivalMarch 20-22, 2015Memorial Auditorium$5 per block, $10 for weekend pass
The movie scene in Chattanooga has grown quite a bit in recent years with the addition of independent filmmakers, film festivals and events such as Capture, a community-sourced 48-hour film project that puts local people in front of and behind the camera.
For the latter, which is a fundraiser for the Association for Visual Arts, people are given a topic and asked to “capture” a moment on film that showcases its meaning. Local film editors and professionals then take the raw footage and create a large finished piece. Local musicians complete the pieces by creating a soundtrack for the finished product. All of it happens in two days.
Lookout Wild Film Festival conducted its third annual festival in March at the Memorial Auditorium with around 2,000 atendees. The festival focuses on high-adventure sports like kayaking, skydiving and canoeing in extreme locations. For example, in one film, paddlers explored waterfalls in the Adirondacks, and in another cavers film their exploration of a cave in Borneo.
It also has social events that allow devotees of the various sports to intermingle.