Producer Tammy Williams sets up new film studio in Atlanta

A brand new film and television facility called Cinema South Studios will be built on 60 acres on the northern edge of Fayette County, the Atlanta Constitution Journal reports.

According to a press release, the project will cost $135 million to build and the owners plan to begin work in March.

The first two soundstages are expected to be available for production by the first quarter of 2023.

Tammy Williams and her partner Gary Guidry, investor and CEO of G-Square Events and Black Promoters Collective, are the visionaries behind the project. Once the studio is completed, Williams will be the first black woman to own a studio in the state of Georgia.

In an interview, Williams said she had wanted studio space for 12 years and finally decided to make it happen.

When the campus is complete, Cinema South will include up to “11 sound stages, a backlot, a prop house, a wardrobe rental center, a lighting handle rental house, a transportation and an office building with a theater and a workstation. production facilities.”

“The demand for soundstages is global and the owners rarely look like us, let alone an African-American woman,” Guidry said in the release. “When I choose to invest, I evaluate the needs of the business and the property. Investing in Tammy Williams and her team of professionals convinced me that purchasing the land in Fayetteville, Georgia was a good decision with her talents at the helm.

Cinema South will be home to Williams’ production company, Tammy’Dele Films, Tammy’Dele Films Workshops and Cinema South Film Academy.

Williams expressed her excitement as she prepares for the official opening next month.

“We have been patient,” she said. “This vision for us didn’t happen overnight.”