Indie Memphis

While we all continue to practice social distancing, Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to bring the monthly filmmaker forum, Shoot & Splice, online! For this month's event, please join us for a "Meet the Programmers" discussion and Q&A. Join Indie Memphis Artistic Director Miriam Bale, Senior Programmer Brighid Wheeler, and Programmer Kayla Myers […]

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Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are excited to put the "splice" in Shoot & Splice!
Join us for a virtual chat with film editors Eileen Meyer (CRIP CAMP) and Michael Taylor (THE FAREWELL), moderated by filmmaker Laura Jean Hocking. They will discuss several topics including: working with a director, workflow preferences, creative techniques, and more. This is your chance to learn from some of the best independent editors in both narrative and documentary film.

Shoot & Splice is a FREE filmmaker forum presented by Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis, featuring a wide variety of technical, educational, and unique topics of interest to the Memphis filmmaking community.

Join Phil Darius Wallace and moderator Jazmin Miller (actress, playwright, and Crosstown Theater Director) for a discussion on acting for film, being an independent producer, and the state of the industry during this catastrophic time. This is a virtual event.

Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts present a virtual case study of CURVES, the filmed-in-Memphis, BET-produced television pilot, with creator Skyy Blair. Skyy will share her story of winning the Script to Screen contest held by BET and Issa Rae's Color Creative company. She will also discuss the process of writing and producing the pilot, working within the television studio structure, and much more. This case study will be moderated by actor and producer Princeton James.

Join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts in a virtual discussion with Memphis-based cinematographer Ryan Earl Parker. Ryan has been the Director of Photography for many documentaries, shorts, and features. Ryan was the DP for the recently-released Netflix documentary "Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb," which was shot on location in Egypt. Virtual event link coming soon!

Join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts for an in-depth virtual conversation about the use of archival footage in documentary film. Last year’s Indie Memphis festival winner for Best Documentary Feature was Cane Fire, a film that makes brilliant use of archival footage to illustrate and explore labor exploitation and inequality in Hawaii. Join Cane Fire director Anthony Banua-Simon and executive producer Steve Holmgren to talk about their use of archival footage in the film, securing rights to archival footage, ways to find archival footage, and the various creative processes filmmakers use when working with archival footage.

What happens after the festival run of a film? To answer this and more, meet the founders of Dedza Films, a new distribution initiative dedicated to "curating and facilitating the next wave of filmmakers with a focus on underrepresented communities and early works of emerging storytellers." They launched on June 11 with the anthology of short films, "Who Will Start the Fire" (currently available in the Indie Memphis virtual cinema).

In this virtual Shoot & Splice forum, Aaron Hunt and Kate Gondwe will describe what the distribution world is like, why they started Dedza, and how an independent filmmaker might be able to find distribution for a feature or short film.