Since 1997, award-winning PushPush Film & Theater has created a unique and prolific reputation for developing program and content with global appeal. To help improve the balance of Georgia’s creative development and local investment, the Seedworks program was built over a 3-year phase of R & D (2013-2016) supported by multiple NEA grants. The program coalesces PushPush’s extensive resources into a new lab for cultural innovation.
Seedworks is distinct from other incubators and content developers in several ways:
- Attracts and retains talent with meaningful opportunities beyond Atlanta’ glass ceiling.
- Puts a key focus on advanced-career artists that continually use Atlanta as a stepping stone city.
- Provides access points for every level of experience using an open source system.
- Offers gestational planning and accountability measures using a unique approach created by
hundreds of independent creators in 7 cities. - Maintains a diverse and expanding menu of quality intellectual properties born and owned in Georgia that promote our authentic and progressive cultural identity.
- Promotes reinvestment and sustainable growth by increasing ownership of Georgia’s creative I.P.
- Provides support and education for local investors through shared risk strategies and personal connections with leading innovators in their chosen creative fields.
- Reduces undercooked or unrefined work by focusing on a “slow-cooker” process of 3 months to 3 years to increase quality.
- Offers shared-equity opportunities for properties that have crossed the development threshold into proof of concept.
As PushPush approaches its 20th anniversary as a pioneering champion of the Atlanta arts community, we are excited to fuel a vast network of writers, actors, directors, musicians, visual artists and producers working to grow the diversity, variety, and quality of Georgia-owned I.P.
ABOUT PUSHPUSH FILM & THEATER
PushPush began informally in 1990 with workshops to involving 60+ artists at Atlanta’s iconic 7 Stages. In 1997 PushPush obtained non-profit status and a small performance venue in the FloatAway building in Virginia Highlands. In 2003, PushPush expanded to a 5,000 sq. ft. facility inside the East Decatur Station revitalization. In 2010, PushPush entered its 14th anniversary with a grant from TCG to develop its international outreach program, The Portal International Project. In 2011 they launched two literary events, Write Club Atlanta and Naked City. In 2012, after being awarded a prestigious New Media Grant from the NEA, PushPush moved out of its space in Decatur to tour several original productions and further develop a program for writers (Seedworks) and live action/new media productions (See Through – The Goat Fam) with artists across the globe. PushPush is respected in the Atlanta community cultivating distinctive artistic opportunities for film, theater and media artists, and offering the results through a range of diverse programming. PushPush has served thousands of artists, hundreds of arts groups and 40,000+ patrons with groundbreaking productions and processes for improving content and approach. This includes 1000+ professional performances; space and support for homeless arts groups, workshops, career planning, internships, youth theater & film programs for ages 5-18, and national/international exchange.
SUPPORTERS
PushPush has received a wide range of support from local, national and international foundations including The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, The Home Depot Foundation, The Goethe Institute, The Theater Communications Group, SouthArts, Turner Broadcasting System, Georgia Council for the Arts, DeKalb County Department of Arts, Culture, and Entertainment, DeKalb Council for the Arts, KPMG, National Endowment for the Arts, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, The Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany-Atlanta, Friends of Goethe Foundation, Georgia Pacific, East Decatur Station, The Tanne Foundation, The Community Consulting Team, Target Foundation, Publix Charities, AOL Time Warner, Turner Broadcasting, Atlanta Women’s Foundation, Humanities Iowa, Emory University, The Carlos Museum, The Horizon Theater, Actor’s Express, 7 Stages, IBM, and in-kind support from numerous local businesses and private donors.
AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS
- Development of 3000+ diverse artists and arts groups in multiple disciplines.
- Tours of nine American plays to Germany and 16 German plays across America.
- Invitations to prestigious festivals around the world including the Shanghai dramatic Arts Festival,
France’s Le Grandes Traversees, and Berlin’s The Long Night of Theater & Opera. - Pioneering and award-winning programs including SmallTall Youth, Dailies Filmmakers, Sessions, The
Portal International Exchange Program, CultivEight ATL, The Series Project. - Numerous NEA ArtWorks grants for Immersive Theater, Artist & Script Development Programs, and
Development of an Episodic Series. - Turner New Voices Award for development of Slow Down Atlanta Series.
- 101 Humiliating Stories named as one of Atlanta’s Top 50 plays of the decade by Creative Loafing and
remounted in a partnership with Synchronicity. - Theater Communications Group grant recipient for The Portal International Exchange and the Theater
Residency for Playwrights - Numerous recognitions including “Atlanta’s Best Cutting Edge Theater” in Atlanta Magazine, and “Top
Ten Plays” / “Top 50 Plays of the Decade” by Creative Loafing. - Home Depot Collaboration and Innovation award.
- Multiple Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund & Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta grants for youth
programming, space improvement and artist development. - Public Broadcasting of Atlanta “Lexus Leaders of the Arts”
- US Dept. of State supported tour of Faust in southeast Europe.
- Host of Europe’s Social Muscle Club in their first 10-city American tour.