ROME’S HISTORIC

Founded in 2003, Rome International Film Festival (RIFF) is northwest Georgia’s signature film festival event and Myrtle named as one of MovieMaker Magazine’s “Top 20 Hill Festivals Worth the Submission Fee”. Cemetery Entrances at S Broad St SW & Myrtle St SW The high octane thriller, Need for Need for Speed(2014), Myrtle Hill Cemetery Speed (2014) features select Rome’s Historic DeSoto Theatre serves as the central Plan Your Visit scenes along the venue for the festival. Built in 1927, the DeSoto was the Rome Bypass first cinema in the Southeastern United States to screen and Myrtle Hill films with sound. Experience the best of Georgia’s Rome! Located off Cemetery. The Turner McCall Boulevard (GA Highway 20 West) on historic Myrtle Hill Cemetery Previous RIFF guests include Mary Badham (To Kill a historic Jackson Hill, the Visitor Center is housed in an Mockingbird), Valentine de Vargas (Hatari, A Touch of authentic 1901 train depot with an attached caboose. cemetery is rich with Evil), John Hancock (Bang the Drum Slowly, Prancer), beauty and history, and is worth a trip to Rome just to Hillard Elkins (Alice’s Restaurant, Richard Pryor: Live on 706-295-5576 | 800-444-1834 see. The cemetery even has it’s own self guided tour! Sunset Strip) and many more. 402 Civic Center Dr, Rome, GA 30161 M-F 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. & Sa: 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Tour tip: Download the free Myrtle Hill app for a self Tour tip: Keep up with film festival news, dates and industry guided tour of the cemetery at RomeGeorgia.org/apps. workshops at romeinternationalfilmfestival.com. Downtown Rome Welcome Center To see a live theatre performance at the DeSoto, visit 300 W. 1st St. romelittletheatre.wordpress.com. Turner McCall Blvd. Hours may vary seasonally. The hit comedy Identity Thief (2013) starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy has a street scene Constantine(2014), Berry College filmed in Rome on Turner McCall Boulevard; the main thoroughfare through town. Access a map of Rome’s Film Tour Turner McCall Blvd. from your mobile device: Allegiant(2015), Lindale RomeGeorgia.org/FilmTour

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#RomeGeorgia RomeGeorgia.org/FilmTour 1/17 main campus near Victory connects Silver Creek Trail to Kingfisher Trail and Darlington Lake. Remember the Titans follows the Etowah River into Downtown Rome. (2000) was also filmed at Tour tip: Request the Outdoor Adventure Guide from the School these gorgeous campus Rome-Floyd Visitor Center for a map of Rome’s extensive 1014 Cave Spring locations. green and blue trail systems to view the bridge by foot or Rd SW, Rome, GA by water. 30161 The pilot of the television series The Following (2013) A group of starring Kevin Bacon, was Cave Spring boarding school filmed in Green Hall on Cave students discover Berry’s campus. Many of 13 Old Cedartown Rd, a suitcase full of Berry’s students were Cave Spring, GA 30124 money and a background extras during the dead body in the episode. How’s that for six Cave Spring’s mystery film The Darlington School Football Stadium degrees of separation? namesake cave Double McGuffin was featured in the (1979). One scene was filmed at the football stadium The iconic Oak Hill & Martha popular Food on the Darlington School campus. Berry Museum was Network featured as Reese television series, Witherspoon’s home in the Alton Brown’s Good Floyd County Administration movie, Sweet Home Alabama Cave Spring Cave Eats (2006). In the 12 E 4th Ave, (2002). episode “Water Rome, GA 30161 Oak Hill & Martha Berry Museum Works I”, Alton The music video for Casting Crowns’ “Does Anybody Brown talks about drinking water sources. The natural If Loving You is Rome and Floyd County is a popular place for filming Hear Her” (2009) was filmed almost entirely at Berry spring located inside the cave produces 2 million Wrong (2016), a because the area offers College featuring Barnwell Chapel and Ford Reflection gallons of water a day. prime time a little bit of everything Pools. Tour tip: Tour the family-friendly cave at Rolater Park and television soap from rolling hills and opera rivers, to a wide Tour tip: The beautiful Berry College campus is open daily bring your own jug to take home fresh spring water. Cave open daily May thru mid-Aug; weekends Apr thru created, executive diversity of urban and during daylight hours. Tour the Oak Hill & Martha Berry produced, written, rural structures and Museum open Mon-Sat, 10a-5p, Adults $8. Seniors $7. mid-Oct. 10:30a-5p Students $5. Children 5 & Under Free. and directed by architecture. Over Tyler Perry and forty-five television premiered on the and movie productions Claremont Oprah Winfrey Floyd County Administration have been filmed in the Big Texas Valley Big Texas Valley Rd NW, House Network. The building area. Here are a few of 906 E 2nd Ave. was a filming location for one of the episodes. the most iconic Rome, GA 30165 Rome, GA 30161 projects and locations: This scenic farm land Old Mill at Berry College was the farm backdrop The Dance of the Dead (2008) is a Lindale Berry College for Mosquito Coast zombie 102 Park Ave SE, Lindale, GA, 30147 2277 Martha Berry Hwy NW, Mt Berry, GA 30149 (1986) starring Harrison comedy where Ford and Helen Mirren. Big Texas Valley on the night of Allegiant (2016), part 3 of the Divergent series, The world’s largest college campus, Berry College This movie was one of the big filmed scenes across the street from the Lindale Mill. boasts over 27,000 acres and is home to English Rome’s first feature films. High-School The directors were so pleased with the filming gothic-inspired buildings, plantation homes, roaming Prom, the dead experience, they changed the original script to say the wildlife and a working mill with an overshot “Lindale Mission” after the area where they filmed. Bob Moore rise to eat the Claremont House waterwheel; which Bridge living, and the only The mill dates all make for great film Access from E. 4th Street people who can stop them are the back to 1896 sets. “losers” who couldn’t get dates to the dance. The and once The Originals (2016) is elegant 1882 Victorian Gothic home, the Claremont produced The television reboot the CW’s spinoff series House was featured along with Myrtle Hill Cemetery. one-seventh of DC Comics’ of The Vampire Diaries. of all textiles Constantine was filmed The Bob Moore Bridge Tour tip: Stay at this beatiful bed & breakfast listed on in Georgia. at the historic Old Mill, was a filming location the National Register of Historic Places. Featuring rooms the English Gothic Ford for one of the with private baths and a full gourmet breakfast. To book, buildings and on the call 1-800-254-4797 or visit theclaremonthouse.net Ford Buildings at Berry College Bob Moore Bridge episodes. The bridge Lindale Mill