?? Meet ATL's Sundance Fellow

Monday roll call

July 29 —?Summer, we hardly knew ya.?Several local school systems start this week:?Decatur begins tomorrow, Cobb?and?Atlanta Public Schools?start classes on Thurs., Aug. 1.?DeKalb,?Fulton, and?Gwinnett?begin next Monday. Here are some tips on back-to-school shopping.

??? More rain with a high of 85° today.?

???The Atlanta Fire Department is investigating the cause of the Saturday blaze that severely damaged a luxury apartment building on Howell Mill Road. No injuries were reported, but the Red Cross is assisting those who lost their homes.?

?? Atlanta Police homicide investigators continue to search for a suspect in the murder of restaurateur Chad Dillon last week in Old Fourth Ward.

????Seven people, including three members of the Georgia-based gospel quartet The Nelons and Georgia's corrections board chairman Larry Haynie, died in a Wyoming plane crash on Friday.

?? Students showed continued improvement in the latest Georgia Milestones tests that cratered during the pandemic, the state Department of Education reported Friday.

??? A public open house on the Peachtree Dunwoody Road Multi-Use Trail will be hosted on Aug. 15 by Sandy Springs and the Perimeter Community Improvement Districts.

?? WSB Radio?raised over $2 million in its annual Radio Care-a-Thon that supports the Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

?? After an hours-long rain delay, Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka beat?Australia's Jordan Thompson to win the final Atlanta Open title.

?? Early bird tickets are on sale for the Sandy Springs Wine Festival that will be held on Oct. 6 on the Heritage Entertainment Lawn.

ELSEWHERE

?? Wildfires are raging across the western United States and Canada, with California's Park Fire being the largest, scorching an area larger than Los Angeles.?

???Warner Bros. Discovery is suing the NBA for rejecting its matching offer to Amazon's $1.8 billion per year deal, sparking debate over fan access and the future of sports broadcasting rights.

OLYMPICS

???The U.S.?leads the overall medal count with nine so far, including two golds in swimming. ?

????♀? Simone Biles dazzled again on Sunday, despite battling a lower leg injury, the U.S. gymnast put herself and her team at the top of the qualifying tables.??????Georgia gymnast Brody Malone didn't perform as he hoped during the qualifying rounds.?

?? Here's what's in today's newsletter:

? Local Sundance fellow

? Titanic: An Immersive Voyage

? Global Headlines

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? Look & Listen

Go for the gold this week,

Collin & Sammie

?? River lovers and paddlers! Join us for the Georgia Rivers Gala on Aug.?22 at the Atlanta History Center to celebrate historic river conservation efforts and support the future of river recreation. Get tickets here.

SPONSOR MESSAGE

1. Artemis Fannin's journey to becoming a Sundance fellow ?

?? When Artemis Fannin was a little girl, she thought she wanted to be an actor.?

She put in the work to be a well-rounded performer. She acted in school plays, she took ballet, she played in the orchestra. She held onto that idea of acting all the way through high school until college. It was there, at Georgia State University, where she realized maybe her dreams laid elsewhere.

“Somewhere in the process I just realized that I didn’t feel like I wanted my whole life to be dependent on my physicality – me, as an actor, “ Fannin said.

Eventually, Fannin decided to become a producer.?Decades and a lot of false starts later, Fannin is one of eight women who have?been selected for the?2024 Sundance Women to Watch x Adobe Fellowship, a yearlong program designed to support and sustain the creative practice of women artists, with a focus on filmmakers from historically underrepresented communities.?

?? Learn more about Fannin's journey to becoming a Sundance fellow here.

Don't miss the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival!?

SPONSORED BY ATLANTA FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL

?? Step right up to a spectacle of Atlanta's finest culinarians at the?Atlanta Food & Wine Festival on?Sept. 13-15 at Historic Fourth Ward Park!

Within the famous Tasting Tents presented by?Goya Foods, guests will have the chance to immerse themselves in?over 60 tasting stations,?each one a portal to culinary bliss as your ticket includes delectable food, tantalizing drinks,?captivating entertainment, and so much more this September!

?? Act fast – Early Bird Tickets are?on sale now!?Buy tickets here.?

2. 'Titanic: An Immersive Voyage' premieres at Doraville's Exhibition Hub

?? Be prepared to be educated, amazed, and overwhelmed at Exhibition Hub’s latest installation,?“Titanic: An Immersive Voyage,”?which made its world premiere on July 26.

At a media preview last week, executive producer John Zaller gave our colleague Cathy Cobbs a tour of the exhibit. His latest project took more than three years to conceive and assemble using 300 artifacts from Titanic and its sister vessels, the Olympic and the Britanic, as well as the Carpathia, the vessel that rescued more than 700 survivors on the fateful night.

Zaller said the Titanic exhibition is different from other similar storytelling efforts in that it tells the story in reverse order, first introducing the iceberg that was the “unsinkable” ship’s downfall. The story then moves on to the intricate planning and execution of the ship’s construction in Belfast, Ireland to the maiden voyage in April of 1912, and its devastating demise only two days later.

? Read more about the exhibition here.

3. Venezuelan elections; Hezbollah strikes Druze village

???? Although the opposition claims fraud, incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was?declared the winner ofyesterday's presidential election in Venezuela.Exit polls show challenger Edmundo González leading Maduro by 40 points. Economic collapse under Maduro?has forced an estimated eight million Venezuelans to flee the country.??

?????Israel’s security cabinet?has authorized the government?to respond to a rocket strike on the Israeli-occupied?Golan Heights that killed more than 12?Druze children and teenagers who were playing soccer.

???? Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian?will be sworn in?before the parliament as the ninth president of the Islamic Republic.

?????Foreign Ministers of Southeast Asian countries are discussing security at the annual?ASEAN Regional Forum?in Laos.???? South Africa has appointed?60-year-old Mandisa Maya?as first woman chief justice.

???? After a three-year hiatus,?Ukraine?held its largest music festival?since the Russian invasion?of the country.?

????Olympic organizers apologizedfor introducing South Korean athletes as North Korean in Friday's Opening Ceremony.?

??? Register today to attend a fireside chat and breakfast with Karen Pierce DCMG, British Ambassador to the United States on Thurs., Sept. 5. Get a better understanding of the past, present, and future of the special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K.?Learn more.

?? River lovers and paddlers! Join us for the Georgia Rivers Gala on Aug.?22 at the Atlanta History Center to celebrate historic river conservation efforts and support the future of river recreation. Get tickets here.

SPONSOR MESSAGE

4. Olympic podcasts

??? The IOC has a plethora of podcasts – including interviews, previews, and recaps – on itsofficial site.?

?? Season 10 of Malcolm Gladwell'sRevisionist History looks at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,in the multi-part "Hitler's Olympics."?

???NBC has a daily podcast calledThe Podiumduring the run of the Games.?

?? Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers are hosting a special podcast calledTwo Guys, Five Ringswhere they dish on Olympic Village gossip and obsess over Paris fashion.