Macon Film Festival Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

In august of 2025 the macon film festival celebrated 20 years of showcasing independent films and filmmakers in macon, Georgia. The festival partnered with the fire starters film festival to kick off the festival for the international premiere screening of the festival award winning documentaries tiger directed by loren waters and remaining native directed by paige bethmann with special guests dana tiger (tiger) and delmar steven (remaining native) in attendance. Also based in macon, the fire starters film festival focuses on showcasing film and visual art made by indigenous filmmakers, with a particular emphasis on the muscogee (creek) nation experience. The festival's official selection screenings began friday morning at the museum of arts and sciences with a daylong educational workshop for central Georgia high school juniors and seniors. Students were introduced to the festival's student shorts block (college/university) and as well as a collection of selections from the 2025 fulldome category of immersive films. They were given the opportunity to meet with visiting filmmakers and interact with the museum's interactive wonderspace immersive exhibit. Fulldome and documentary screenings continued at the museum into the evenings night of immersive showcase while a series of narrative short and music documentary blocks screened downtown at theatre macon. Saturday and sunday saw additional official selection screenings continuing at the museum and theatre macon with the addition of the douglass theatre. A festival workshop discussing 'filmmaking and the law' was held by the atlanta firm barnes & thornberg at capricorn sound studios. Saturday evening featured a special screening of 40 acres directed by r.t. Thorne at the douglass theatre and the festival closed with a special screening of the music documentary boy george & the culture club also at the douglass. Preceding the festival dates in august, macon film festival partnered with newtown macon to host several outdoor screenings in an ongoing series, classics at the bibb, made possible by the generous support of the downtown challenge fund of the community foundation of central Georgia, peyton anderson foundation, and knight foundation. The festival board of directors were excited to once again have the opportunity to showcase festival screenings, workshops, networking sessions and parties in multiple venues throughout macon. Just under 100 independent films were featured throughout the festival weekend and close to thirty films were represented by visiting filmmakers during the festival. Many films featured had between 1 - 4 representatives who made the trip to macon. Festival attendance numbers are estimated at 1,205 audience members.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 96.7%; rating input score 97
• Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 3.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.82; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings