Longleaf Studios

04/13/2026

Jacksonville State University's Longleaf Studios is proud to announce our 12th Southeast Emmy nomination for "McClellan, A Life Saved". A big congratulations to our industry partners, Films, our faculty, and our student filmmakers, who worked tirelessly on this production. Additionally, thank you to Alabama Public Television for their continued support.

04/10/2026

Check out our latest film for Alabama Public Television and Jacksonville State University!

Celebrate Alabama’s diverse trail systems from the coast to the mountains.

08/21/2025

This summer, our interns worked hard filming this promo for The Randy Owen Center for the Performing Arts.

Like many of our current students, Randy Owen attended Jax State as a first-generation college student, working his way through school, with dreams of a bett...

04/16/2025

Check out Jax State's Film program in the news!

Katt Williams' film studio, Kemet Movie Works, is set to open in Anniston soon, and students at Jacksonville State University are excited about the new opportunities.

06/17/2024

We won! Jax State's Longleaf Studios won our 5th Emmy this weekend at the Southeast Emmy Awards in the program promotion category for our Defending Freedom documentary. We owe a big thank you to Alabama Public Television and Jacksonville State University for their continued support of our experiential learning film studio. This is a huge honor and we are so proud of what we have been able to accomplish! A link to the trailer that won the Emmy is below in the comments

04/26/2019

Wonderful screening tonight of The Pushouts, a powerful documentary detailing challenges associated with poverty, race, education and justice. Thanks to filmmaker Dawn Valadez for joining us from Oakland, California. Thanks also to all that participated!

03/23/2019

Thanks to all who came to tonight’s screening of Parallel Love. Special thanks to filmmaker and documentary subject Matt Hinton for join us for Q&A. Terrific film.

03/21/2019

Tomorrow night is on Longleaf Studios. Great film, Q & A with the filmmaker and free drinks with pizza. Thursday night in Jacksonville – come join us!

03/07/2019

'The Friend,' 'Son of the South' and 'The Devil All the Time' are among new Alabama-filmed projects.

02/28/2019

Take a look!

New casting calls have been released by a local agency for the highly anticipated third entry in a very successful “buddy cop” franchise. It has been filming across metro Atlanta since late January. You can expect many more casting calls to continue to go out in the metro area over the next few ...