Tag: Indie Memphis

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: Tribute to Barbara Hammer

Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: Tribute to Barbara Hammer. 

Crosstown Theater
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm
Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

In honor of the incredible experimental lesbian filmmaker, Barbara Hammer, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are excited to bring this Tribute to Barbara Hammer for this month’s MicroCinema. A prolific filmmaker, installation artist, and pioneer of feminist and queer cinema for over 50 years, Hammer’s work consistently and relentlessly explored the intimate experiences of lesbian relationships, the erasure and censorship of queer history, and the relationship between sex, age, and the body. 

Nitrate Kisses (1992), her first feature-length work, is a foundational queer classic that takes the shape of an experimental documentary exploring queer history and its erasure in the archives and the movies — something she would continue to explore in later work. Her short, Audience (1982), provides us with an insight into her vibrant personality and poses questions about the relationship between the artist, the art, and the audience experience that we wonder about to this day. 

We’re ecstatic to screen her work and celebrate her impact on experimental and queer cinema.

Many thanks to Electronic Arts Intermix for this program!

Content Advisory: This program does include depictions of explicit nudity.



Shoot & Splice: Intimacy on Set

Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present Shoot & Splice: Intimacy On Set at Crosstown Theater.

Crosstown Theater
Tickets: Free
Doors at 6:30 p.m. | Event begins at 7:00 p.m.

Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a panel and conversation on Intimacy Coordinating. While not a new position, intimacy coordination has recently become an on-set film industry expectation whenever actors are needed to perform vulnerable scenes that require high levels of trust and communication.

Our panel of local coordinators have worked closely with many directors, actors, and crew, while also furthering their knowledge through organizations such as Intimacy Choreographers of Color (ICOC) and the Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE).

Intimacy Coordination covers a much broader range of cinematic scenes than one might realize – including stunt choreography – while assisting to create a safe, trusting, and creative set experience for all. To learn more about our panelists, see their bios below.

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.

Microcinema: 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival Shorts Tour

Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts present Microcinema: 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival Shorts Tour in Crosstown Theater.

Crosstown Theater
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Doors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7 pm
Tickets: Pay What You Can

Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are honored to start off Microcinema this year with a program of shorts from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America! This program of shorts features fascinating works from filmmakers from around the world who employ an array of approaches — an absurdist music video, a mediation on physical and mental spaces within the African Diaspora, and a video essay exploring the innocence and role of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema.

Shoot & Splice: Short Film Case Studies

Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts present Shoot & Splice: Short Film Case Studies in Crosstown Theater.

Crosstown Theater
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Doors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7 pm

Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a case study of the 2022 Indie Memphis Film Festival Hometowner award-winning short films, “Nordo” (Best Narrative Short) and “What We’ll Never Know” (Best Documentary Short). Directors Kyle Taubken (Nordo) and Lauren Ready (What We’ll Never Know) will share insights and stories from each stage of the production process — from early development to production and into festival distribution.

The case studies will also feature screenings of both short films.

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.

Indie Memphis Screening – DAVID LYNCH’S LOST HIGHWAY

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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