Electric Owl Studios

Electric Owl Studios is a purpose-built film and television studio on Redan Road in DeKalb County, beside I-285 east of downtown Atlanta. According to the studio, it is the world’s first purpose-built LEED Gold certified film and TV studio. The campus has six sound stages totaling 140,000 square feet, 50,000 square feet of production offices, 90,000 square feet of mill and support space and 35,000 square feet of wardrobe and support space. It was founded by developer Michael Hahn of Capstone South Properties and Dan Rosenfelt, a former president of Riverfront Stages and Third Rail Studios. The studio does not produce its own content; it leases its stages and offices to outside productions.

Sound stages

• Six stages with 40 feet of clear height and 3,600 amps of power per stage.
• Stages 1 and 4: 30,000 square feet (200 x 150 feet) with 80 tons of silent AC and heat; Stage 1 is NC 25 sound rated.
• Stages 2, 3, 5 and 6: 20,000 square feet (134 x 150 feet) with 40 tons of silent AC and heat.
• 300,000-pound truss loads, bell and light systems, dimmer rooms, and elephant doors joining neighboring stages.

Offices, mill and wardrobe

• Production offices with 74 private offices, six conference rooms, bullpens and break rooms.
• A 65,000-square-foot mill in three buildings with 22-foot heights and elephant doors.
• A two-floor wardrobe building with fitting rooms, laundry and ageing and dyeing rooms, and green rooms with showers.
• 12,000 square feet of support space for catering, set dec, background, hair and makeup, table reads, props and stunts.

Amenities

24/7 guard and gate security, a 10G Sohonet media network, base camp power and wifi, a café, a gated dog park and 2,000 additional parking spaces across the street.

Sustainability

Solar panels offset 30% of the studio’s power use, and the lot has EV charging, living walls, bee hives, full recycling and set recycling programs and a green catering policy. The studio is adjacent to MARTA public transit, about 12 minutes from Decatur and 25 minutes from the airport, Midtown and Buckhead.