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Kay Hallahan's extensive experience in the Atlanta film & advertising industries spans over 25 years. During that time she has penned magazine features, columns, marketing materials, screenplays, documentaries, and film shorts.
Kay and her writing partner Tomi Lavinder have written 2 screenplays, "The Red Hood" and "Echota," for which they recently signed a development deal with Native American Producer-Director Valerie Red-Horse.
Kay's freshly penned documentary script "Flood of Controversy: China's Three Gorges Dam" is currently in post-production.
In 2005-2006 Kay co-wrote and produced 3 film shorts, "Alienation" and "Figment" for the 48 Hour Film Festival, and "Janitor Too," which won 1st runner-up in the Horror genre in the NYC Midnight Madness Film Competition. Another script by Kay, Tomi, & Margaret Howell, "Bass Perkins: Mascot Wrangler," won 1st runner-up in the Mockumentary genre in the NYC Midnight Madness Script Competition.
Kay is currently writing "The Opening," a romantic comedy.
She has also written articles for The Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Now Magazine, & cinemATL.com where her three part series on Film Tax Incentives can be seen. She is past president of Women in Film and Television Atlanta & a founding member of the Board of Directors of Women in Film & Television
International. She is an active member of WIFT/A & WIFTI as well as NATAS, for which she has served as Backstage Manager for the Southeastern Emmy Awards since 2004.
At home, Kay is mother to an entire pride of kitty cats she is too embarrassed to enumerate and Jenna, a rescued mixed collie.
