Ava Leigh Stewart; Southeastern Film Festival! Film,Author Film Maker and More!

Ava founded the Southeastern Film Festival in 2013 with a group of filmmakers to promote independent film distribution in smaller towns in the South.  It is the festival’s third year in progress, we have over 1900 submissions from 52 countries in just 3 months, surpassing the entire total of entries in 2015 in just three months.   The first event for 2015 took place in Dahlonega, Georgia and we screened 45 films from 24 countries over a long weekend, our next event will be in Nashville in May of 2016.   This year the festival has screened 80 films from 24 countries, our next event will be in Nashville in November of 2015.   Ava Leigh Stewart is a prolific artist who specializes in creative development for film, television, and web.  Stewart launched her film career after earning a film degree in London, England. She garnished attention after directing, producing, and writing an award winning short film called Keepers of the Gate in 2006.   In 2011, she directed her feature debut film entitled, South of Southern. She has gone on to direct seven more feature films and countless other media projects.  Stewart is currently working on the feature documentary entitled, Paradise Garden.   She was one of the producers of the recently released feature documentary film, State of Control, which chronicles the humanitarian crisis in Tibet.