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  • Shoot & Splice: Cinema Trivia Party

    Throughout the year, Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts brings cinematographers, directors, editors, writers, and technicians to Shoot & Splice, our monthly filmmaking forum. Come help us celebrate the end of another year with the Shoot & Splice FOURTH Annual Cinema Trivia blowout with trivia master John Beifuss! Test your filmmaker mettle! Win prizes! Did we say, FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?

    Doors open at 6:30pm | Trivia starts at 7:00pm

  • Indie Wednesday Film Series

    Weekly film screenings hosted by Indie Memphis. Films will screen at Crosstown Arts, Malco’s Studio on the Square, and Ridgeway Theatre on a rotating basis.

    This week: Furry Lewis & the Bottleneck Guitar Story — The story of how the slide guitar got to the Memphis/Delta region from Hawaii and the role Furry Lewis played in the evolution from the Hawaiian style to the bottleneck sound.

  • Shoot & Splice: Filmmaker Feedback

    Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts. This month: Filmmaker Feedback — an open discussion about what you would like to see from Indie Memphis, as well as the rest of the filmmaking community at large, over the next year.

  • MicroCinema Club

    Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

    This month: The Eyeslicer Q&A
    An episode of the mind-melting new “secret TV show” — directed by over 50 of the most daring American filmmakers working — that will mince your retinas into a delicious ceviche. (Tribeca premiere)

  • Indie Memphis Nights

    Weekly film screenings hosted by Indie Memphis. Films will screen at Crosstown Arts, Malco’s Studio on the Square, and Ridgeway Theatre on a rotating basis.

    This week: Wilderness — John, a jazz musician, and Alice, his new girlfriend, flee to the coast and discover the vulnerabilities, flaws, and manipulations that were previously masked by the blissful waves of new love. 

  • Indie Wednesday Film Series

    Weekly film screenings hosted by Indie Memphis. Films will screen at Crosstown Arts, Malco’s Studio on the Square, and Ridgeway Theatre on a rotating basis.

    This week: Saturday Church — A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process. 2017 Jury and Audience Winner at Outflix Film Festival.

  • Shoot & Splice: For The Love of Cinema with Rashna Richards

    Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts.

    Rashna Richards will discuss what it means to teach Film and Media Studies in the twenty-first century. The first part of her talk will be based on her recent co-edited collection, For the Love of Cinema: Teaching Our Passion in and Outside the Classroom, which offers multiple ways to think about the relationship between the love of cinema and teaching. In the second half, she will expand this discussion by offering examples of her own teaching at Rhodes College and speaking more broadly about the role of film education.

  • Indie Wednesday Film Series

    Screening of Marvin Booker Was Murdered — a film chronicling the search for justice in the case of Marvin Booker, a homeless street preacher originally from Memphis, who was beaten to death by five jail guards for simply wanting to retrieve his shoes in a Denver Detention Center. Award Winner at the 2017 Indie Memphis Film Festival.

  • MicroCinema Club

    Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

    This month: Narrative Spotlight Shorts
    Films include I Live Here, Mrs. Drake, Last Call Lenny, Fry Day, Gema, and New Neighbors.

    Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can

  • Talking Back to the Screen: Feminism & Film Criticism

    Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts
    April topic: Hair & Makeup for Film with Alicia George

    In Alice Bolin's upcoming book, Dead Girls, she writes about moving to L.A. and seeing the city through a white male literary lens, and needing to trust her own eyes rather than what she's read. Miriam Bale's path through the male-dominated world of film criticism at New York newspapers was similarly one of learning to trust her own eyes. The two writers will have a dialogue about different ways to engage with writing about film, a misogynistic industry, as women. Dead Girls (which covers Twin Peaks to True Detective) is an essay collection out in June 2018 from William Morrow/ HarperCollins. Alice Bolin teaches nonfiction at the University of Memphis.

    Miriam Bale is new Senior Programmer of the Indie Memphis Film Festival.