Join Film Fatales and Indie Memphis at Crosstown Arts Wednesday, September 7th for FF Speaker Series featuring Filmmaker Augusta Palmer. It’s a free community event thanks to support by Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis.
Networking, eating, and drinking at 6:30pm; speaker presentation begins at 7:00 pm.
Crossing Genres: From Documentary to Fiction Film and Back Again
Filmmaker Augusta Palmer will screen her short, A is for Aye-Aye: An Abecedarian Adventure (2015), and talk about working across genres, the wild, wild world of creating content for children, and her new project, The Blues Society.
About Augusta Palmer
Augusta Palmer is a filmmaker and scholar best known for The Hand of Fatima (2009), a feature documentary about music, mysticism, and family history. Her award-winning documentary and experimental video work has screened in national and international festivals, as well as at venues like New York’s Anthology Film Archives. Her first fiction short, A is for Aye-Aye: An Abecedarian Adventure (2015), has played in festivals from New Zealand to New York. She is currently at work on a new documentary called The Blues Society, about the Memphis Country Blues Festivals of the 1960s. She is also an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York.
