As at the moment’s filmmaking manufacturing struggles to discover a place to land anyplace in america, the Trilith Institute is encouraging rising filmmakers already based mostly in Georgia to make their motion pictures and TV tales there. And with funding, a stipend, and mentorship in addition.
The nonprofit Trilith Institute introduced at the moment that functions for its 2026 Rising Inventive Residency (ECR) will open October 10. (Purposes on its web site at the moment are reside right here.) Now coming into its third 12 months, the flagship program gives filmmakers who reside in Georgia with housing within the City at Trilith, plus $100,000 in manufacturing funding, a residing stipend, centered mentorship, and entry to business assets. Chosen writers and administrators working in unbiased movie will likely be supervised and mentored from improvement by manufacturing and distribution.
The Institute’s first two residents have already discovered success. The 2024 ECR grantee, Ebony Blanding premiered the characteristic movie “A Mess of Recollections” on the BronzeLens Movie Pageant in Georgia, the place it gained a number of awards. The 2025 recipient, Christian Noél, is at present in manufacturing on an authentic half-hour comedy pilot developed by this system. The sequence, billed as “Caddyshack” meets “Parks and Recreation,” is Trilith Institute’s first TV venture.
“With our first characteristic movie and now a tv pilot, we’re actually realizing the mission of Trilith Institute: to foster and retain the subsequent era of storytellers right here in Georgia,” mentioned Jeffrey Stepakoff, president and CEO of Trilith Institute, in a press assertion shared with IndieWire. “By empowering rising writers and administrators like Ebony and Christian with significant assets, mentorship, and business entry, we’re constructing a sustainable artistic pipeline that retains expertise rooted in our state whereas contributing contemporary voices to the worldwide storytelling panorama.”
Purposes for the 2026 ECR are open now by November 7, 2025, at trilithinstitute.org. The chosen resident will obtain a year-long immersive expertise, each residing and dealing at Trilith whereas growing their authentic venture with the steerage of business professionals.
The nonprofit Trilith Institute is targeted on build up a sturdy leisure panorama in Georgia, by schooling and workforce improvement. The model additionally contains Trilith Studios, positioned in Fayette County, which has hosted Marvel productions from “Loki” on TV to a number of “Avengers” movies. Most lately, out of the DCU, James Gunn’s “Superman” shot at Trilith as effectively, plus “Agatha All Alongside” and “Thunderbolts.”
Extra particulars in regards to the residency are right here.
