A growing community of directors and performers will be featured at this week’s Prince George’s Film Festival, the first county-sponsored film festival.
By the time it debuted, a once-modest local community of directors and performers had grown considerably, backed by the county’s film office, which opened in 2013. The documentary film dubbed Prince George’s a “Basketball County.” Now, these artists think Prince George’s can be a county for filmmakers, too., the first county-sponsored film festival running this week from Thursday to Sunday. To the county’s filmmakers, it’s an underdog story fit for Hollywood.
“If I tried to go to New Orleans, Atlanta, nobody’s going to help me get a hospital,” Smallwood said. “They’ve been very helpful in the county, helping to lend resources. I think that’s major.” Director Harold Jackson, who grew up in Los Angeles but spent his career in D.C. and Prince George’s, said the county has unique advantages for filmmakers who want to shoot on location.“It has everything you need to film,” Jackson said. “You can go 10 minutes one way and get a suburb, you can go 15 minutes the other way and get a lake, a waterfront. … Hyattsville is becoming a big component in my filmmaking because it has pretty much everything in a very small radius.
The film office’s work has seen results, Foster-Dotson said. They’ve supported 156 film and TV productions in Prince George’s since 2016 — including “Basketball County” — and hosted 22 so far this year, she said. Bigger names are taking notice — a Paramount Plus-backed production is currently shooting in the county. This year, the film office launched a new grant program with county funding earmarked specifically to support film projects.
The weekend’s film festival will be another chance to help Prince George’s filmmaking scene grow. Besides screenings at the MGM hotel in National Harbor, the four-day event will host networking receptions and workshops on film financing, distribution and marketing at Bowie State University.“It’s been a long time coming,” said Tewodross Williams, Bowie State’s chair of fine and performing arts.
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