Join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts for a virtual conversation with three Memphis music video and visuals creators as they discuss their process and artistry from various perspectives. In conversation with moderator Jim Thompson is Lawrence Matthews, aka Don Lifted (musician, director), 35 Miles (Unapologetic visual), and Laura Jean Hocking (director).
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.
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!
Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are excited to introduce the 2020 Indie Memphis Screenwriting Residents and Fellows to the Memphis film community. Screenwriters Damon Davis, Seren Sensei, and Zaire Love will spend the next two months writing their feature screenplays with the intent on producing them in Memphis. This is a great opportunity to hear from the writers about their lives as artists, their new projects, and what they are looking to learn about Memphis and our film community. 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 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.
