Tag: Film

Shoot & Splice: TV & Screenwriting with Brandi Nicole

Crosstown Arts presents Shoot & Splice: TV & Screenwriting with Brandi Nicole in The Green Room.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Doors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7 pm
Tickets: Free + open to the public

Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a presentation and conversation on TV & screenwriting with writer Brandi Nicole (Showtime’s YOUR HONOR, Amazon’s BALLARD, Paramount+ HAPPY FACE). Brandi will discuss her writing career and provide advice and practical tips on both the creative and business sides of the film and television industry.

The daughter of a juvenile detention officer mom and 2nd strike convicted felon dad led Brandi to writing characters that explore duality. While she started off as an actor, she fell in love with the storytelling process after writing & producing a slew of short films. Recently wrapping up her role as a staff writer and recurring character on season two of Showtime’s YOUR HONOR, Brandi is currently writing on the Bosch spin-off BALLARD. In her personal life, Brandi splits her time between Memphis and Los Angeles. An advocate for criminal justice reform, she works as a licensed private investigator while in between rooms. When she’s not spending time with her three sons, you can find her decompressing via enjoying her first love: musical theatre.

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.

Shoot & Splice: Filmmaker Speed Meetings

Crosstown Arts & Indie Memphis present Shoot & Splice: Filmmaker Speed Meetings in The Green Room.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Time: 7-9 pm
Tickets: Free with advance registration

Early registration required to attend this event — see below. 

Join Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts for our 6th annual Filmmaker Speed Meetings! Think of it like Speed Dating, but for filmmaking guidance and mentorship. This is a great opportunity for new/rising/new-to-Memphis filmmakers to connect with other Memphis-based industry professionals.

HOW IT WORKS: For one hour every 15 minutes, filmmakers will rotate to different tables to meet and talk shop with other Memphis film professionals. These professionals will be writers, directors, actors, editors, crew, producers, etc. Everyone is matched up – as best as possible – with people that share common interests or goals.

This is intended for filmmakers with either little experience and/or are new to Memphis and have not had many networking opportunities.

*In order to participate in the speed meetings with Memphis film industry professionals, please fill out this form linked to the RSVP button below.

RSVP HERE

**Not all that apply may be selected to participate. Selection will depend on volume and how best the applicants can be matched with the attending professionals.

***If you are not selected and just want to attend Shoot & Splice as usual, fear not! Indie Memphis staff members will be on hand to chat with you and answer any questions you may have about our film festival and filmmaker development opportunities.

MicroCinema: IF/Then Southern Shorts

Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: IF/Then Southern Shorts. 

Crosstown Theater
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm
Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

For this month’s MicroCinema, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are ecstatic to have partnered with IF/Then Shorts to present an array of incredible, often touching documentary shorts from filmmakers throughout the South. We’re glad to be able to include in this program a preview screening of Zaire Love’s SLICE, which was a part of the 2021 IF/Then + Hulu Short Documentary Lab and the recipient of the 2020 Black Creators Forum Short Film Grant!

These IF/Then-supported films cover a vast swath of the region, from Memphis to western rural Texas, to New Orleans and Central Florida. They intimately and thoughtfully foreground workers who are reeling from the effects of the oil industry (WHEN IT’S GOOD, IT’S GOOD), the deep impact the work of Haitian immigrants in the U.S. have on their families back home (MADAME PIPI), and those who’ve beautifully mastered the art of slicing right here in Memphis (SLICE).

Thank you to IF/Then Shorts for their work and support in making this program possible!

Indie Memphis Screening – DAVID LYNCH’S LOST HIGHWAY

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LOST HIGHWAY
ABOUT THE FILM: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
 Tickets: $12 (Indie Memphis Members – $10) → https://bit.ly/3z6nFGS

SHOOT & SPLICE: FILMMAKER SPEED MEETINGS

Sign up today to take part in our 3rd annual Filmmaker Speed Meetings co-presented with Crosstown Arts!

Think of it like Speed Dating, but for filmmaking guidance and mentorship. This is a great opportunity for new/rising/new-to-Memphis filmmakers to connect with other Memphis-based industry professionals.

**SPOTS ARE LIMITED AND WILL FILL UP**
ℹ️ Learn more and sign up: https://bit.ly/shootsplice
?Tuesday, July 12 @ 7PM
? Crosstown Theater

Indie Memphis Screening – SAMBIZANGA

SAMBIZANGA is Based on a true story, the film follows young resistance leader Domingos Xavier (Domingos Oliveira) whose arrest by the Portuguese authorities helps ignite an anti-colonialist uprising and leads his determined wife Maria (Elisa Andrade) on an epic journey by foot to save him.
SAMBIZANGA is directed by the great Sarah Maldoror, an especially important filmmaker in African cinema, particularly for African women and the anti-colonial movements in Angola during and after its fight for independence from Portugal. This is one you don’t want to miss.
Indie Memphis Screening presented with Crosstown Arts
Tickets – $12  https://bit.ly/3Q3DSDa