The Crew

The people who make the PA Academy Happen.

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Linda Burns

Straight Shooter.

No Bullshitter.

I read scripts, provide coverage and develop projects. I breakdown, budget, schedule, pitch, propose, close, negotiate, spend, reconcile, research, network, strategize, market, collaborate, consult, wheel, deal and deliver. I face challenges, solve puzzles and plan ahead. From script to screen, digital to film, union to non-union, large to small, I do it all! Always on time. Always on budget.

Besides me, you’ll learn from other successful Office and Set PAs, Location Managers, and DGA Assistant Directors. They’ll share how they got into the business, what they look for when they hire PAs, their tips for success and how to avoid their pet peeves. Check out our other sponsors below.

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PC&E

PC&E helped put together and host the first PA Academy, over a decade ago, providing the use of their sound stage including the basic G&E stage package, and offering participants a complete tour of their G&E warehouse.

Attendees immediately get their hands dirty — learning how to correctly and efficiently set up and take down pop-up tents, tables and chairs, and director’s chairs. They’re introduced to equipment that PAs need to recognize, interact with, and properly call for on set, such as C-stands, apples boxes, stingers, tape and gels, and other basic equipment.

PC&E is a one-stop -hop for those looking to film in Georgia, offering grip and electric rentals, camera rentals, sound stages, and sales and expendables.

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Set Supplies

Set Supplies furnishes the PA Academy students with walkies talkies and a production truck. Participants learn how to properly build, sign in and out, and use walkies. They learn protocol and terminology, and spend the day getting used to the weight and feel of wearing a walkie. A production truck is provided for participants to learn how to safely use a lift gate, a ratchet strap, and understand the responsibilities of driving a cube truck.

Set Supplies provides production supplies for all your on location needs, offering empty, shelved, or packaged 1 ton box trucks for production, the art department, and camera. Additional rentals include walkies talkies and internet hot spots, layout board and MU mirrors, tables and chairs, pop-up tents and portable generators, traffic cones and safety vests, directors chairs and magliners, camera and craft service carts, wardrobe steamers and rolling racks, road signs and barricades, expendables and more.

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Fresh World Cuisine

Fresh World Cuisine is Atlanta’s premier commercial catering company, providing healthy and delicious food to the industry since 2002, when Producer Linda Burns first hired Foodz to Go sandwich shop owner Vando Davis to feed a small film crew on the independent featurette, Petunia. Vando’s incredible ability to cook food Linda hated, and make her love it, had her hiring them for every commercial gig she worked. But her secret weapon for client happiness wasn’t kept secret for long. Vando’s wife, Chef Sheri Davis, sold her restaurant Dish in Virginia Highland, and they started Fresh World Cuisine, becoming the hottest caterers in town.

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Atlanta Film Society

Now celebrating a 44-year history, the Atlanta Film Society (ATLFS) is one of the oldest and largest organizations dedicated to the promotion and education of film in the United States. ATLFS aims unite the Atlanta community by serving artists in creative growth and inspiring audiences through the power of the moving image. Enriching the community through screenings, classes, workshops and other events year-round, the chief operation of ATLFS is the Atlanta Film Festival.

Positioned at the intersection of art, culture and commerce, the Atlanta Film Society brings meaning to the moving image by championing the shared community experience, fostering the free exchange of ideas, and nurturing the development of a thriving industry. The Atlanta Film Society is a membership-based 501(c)(3) arts non-profit.

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Georgia Production Partnership

The Georgia production tax incentive was created and passed through the Georgia General Assembly and all efforts to protect it should be directed to state senators and representatives elected by voters in your district. Use the link below to find the name and contact information for your State House and Senate representatives in the General Assembly which is located in downtown Atlanta.

If you’re a member of the Georgia Entertainment Industry or you are interested in supporting the job growth that this industry is bringing to our state, you should become a GPP member.

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Become a Sponsor

Numerous sponsorship options are available, from sponsoring student registration fees, to providing the budget for craft service, and paying for walkie talkie training.

Sponsor a student: $200 — 5 spots available

Sponsor hot breakfast: $250/day— 2 spots available (Sat and/or Sun)

Sponsor craft services: $350/day — 2 spots available (Sat and/or Sun)

Sponsor walkie training: $500/day — 2 spots available (Sat and/or Sun)

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Sponsors Receive:

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Mentions in GPP meetings before and after the PA Academy, included on the web stream.

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Recognition on the signage during the event as well, as direct mentions in the workshop.

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Tweets, Facebook mentions and Instagram photos via ATLFF, GPP, Linda Burns, and Plexus Pictures, before and after the PA Academy, as well as from students throughout the weekend who tweet, Facebook, and Instagram their thanks.

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