Christopher Holland

Greater Atlanta Area United States

Operations & Marketing Director

Writing / Publishing

Joining the Atlanta Film Festival in the Fall of 2012 was almost as much of a homecoming as actually moving back to the city where I grew up. Since I came aboard as Operations director and later assumed a role in Marketing: ✔ Festival attendance is up about 75%. ✔ Event revenues are up. ✔ Member numbers have more than doubled. ✔ We received a record number of film submissions (~3700, up from 3200 last year, and up from 2800 in 2012). ✔ I coordinated the festival’s first Kickstarter campaign and helped raise nearly $18,000 in pledges to pay for more filmmakers to come to the 2014 Festival. ✔ Filmmaker and audience feedback are overwhelmingly positive. I can’t claim full ...