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Shoot & Splice: Works in Progress Screening

Please join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts for a special Shoot & Splice event: Works In Progress Screening. This screening will provide filmmakers an opportunity to present a rough cut of their work and engage in conversation with the attending audience in order to receive constructive, guided feedback. As a result, filmmakers and audiences will have a unique opportunity to share in the creative process.

ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
by Vivian Gray (2017 Indie Memphis Youth Fest Winner)

An ambitious writer betrays the trust of a retired burlesque dancer by promising another chance at fame that never really existed.

Chapter of IN THE ABSENCE
by Jordan Danelz and Ben Rednour

A chapter of the nine-part docu-series addressing the long term effects of disinvestment in core city neighborhoods.

Reception at 6:30pm, panel discussion begins at 7pm. Free and open to the public. Complimentary beverages will be available.

Shoot & Splice is a monthly forum for filmmakers presented collaboratively by Crosstown Arts & Indie Memphis. 

MicroCinema Club: Film Fatales

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

Join us for a selection of short films presented by Indie Memphis and Film Fatales, highlighting underrepresented voices including content by and about women of color and the LGBTQ community.

Indie Memphis Nights presented by Orion FCU

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BECAUSE WE CAN
Elaine Chu | 2018 | 8 min
Kylie and Evan are married, and so not in love.

BUTTER
Jessica Janos | 2018 | 4 min.
BUTTER explores the challenge, power and purpose of our own body fat – the sexuality and suffering of women.

CLEAR
Maya Washington | 2018 | 15 min
CLEAR follows Ember Bearheart Johnson’s first day at home after a 16-year prison sentence for a crime she didn’t commit. Reuniting with her daughter (who was an infant at the time she was incarcerated) is bittersweet as she uncovers how her family’s lives have gone on without her after all these years.

CULT
Wei-Ling Chang | 2018 | 9 min.
In sunny SoCal, a religious zealot tries to recruit a man into his sect but ends up getting more than he bargained for.

I WANT TO MARRY A CREATIVE JEWISH GIRL
Beth de Araujo | 2018 | 16 min.
I WANT TO MARRY A CREATIVE JEWISH is a dark comedy about an Asian American who looks for love in superficial and external ways.

MISDIRECTION
Carly Usdin | 2019 | 14 min.
MISDIRECTION is a coming-of-age queer comedy about a college freshman who falls in love with close-up magic as an escape from her unrequited crush on her roommate and her recently-diagnosed OCD.

MOMSTER
Drew Denny | 2019 | 11 min.
When notorious bank robber the MOMSTER (Amanda Plummer) catches her daughter Angel (Brianna Hildebrand) mid-gunfight, Angel thinks she’s being rescued… until she realizes she has to do the saving.

THE NEXT RIGHT THING (Pilot Episode)
Dionna McMillian | 2018 | 10 min.
De’Adra and Claire make a pact to be on their best behavior for date night, but find themselves surprised by what their suitors bring to the table…

TRANSMISSION
Emily Mkrtichian, Anahid Yahjian | 2019 | 15 min.
After a deadly car crash, a queer activist couple are flung into parallel realities and must embark on a search between worlds to find each other again.

Shoot & Splice: Southern Music Documentaries

Please join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts for a Shoot & Splice panel discussion on Southern Music Documentaries.

Panelists include filmmakers from The Southern Documentary Project, Mary Knight (SINGING OUT), Rex Jones (BEAUTIFUL JIM), and John Rash (NEGRO TERROR). Moderated by photographer and producer Andrea Morales, the panelists will discuss various aspects of producing music documentaries; from building relationships with musicians to representing diversity in music in the south. To learn more about The Southern Documentary Project, please visit southdocs.org.

Shoot & Splice is a monthly filmmaking discussion presented collaboratively by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts.

Doors at 6:30 pm | presentation at 7 pm

About the panelists:
Andrea Morales is a documentary photographer based in Memphis, Tennessee and a producer with the University of Mississippi’s Southern Documentary Project. Her photojournalistic work has been commissioned and published by outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Intercept, and NBC News. She also works with MLK50.com: Justice Through Journalism.

Mary Stanton Knight is a graduate of the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture with an MFA in Documentary Expression. She earned her Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism with an emphasis in Integrated Marketing Communications from UM’s School of Journalism. Mary received the North Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance Film Grant through the Oxford Film Festival and the Mississippi Film Alliance Emerging Filmmaker Award both in 2018 for her short documentary film, Dear Hubert Creekmore. Her films have been selected by the Oxford Film Festival, the South Georgia Film Festival, and the UM Film Festival.  Her short music documentary, Singing Out, was selected to open for filmmaker John Rash’s screenings of his award-winning feature documentary NEGRO TERROR on his North Carolina tour in the summer of 2019.

Rex Jones is a filmmaker with the Southern Documentary Project at the University of Mississippi and an instructor in the MFA in Documentary Expression program at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.  Rex’s body of work includes FLAG FLAP OVER MISSISSIPPI (2018), LA FRONTERA (2017) and LONGLEAF: THE HEART OF PINE (2016), which were broadcast on select PBS stations nationwide. BEAUTIFUL JIM (2014) won the Programmers’ Choice Award at the Crossroads Film Festival, A TIME TO ALL THINGS (2014) won the Heritage Award in Preservation Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust, and A PICKUP LOAD OF PIGS (2011) won the Award for Outstanding Media Product from the Wildlife Society. Rex is also the co-author of LECILE: THIS AIN’T MY FIRST RODEO (2015), which was the winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Excellence in Western Literature.  Rex’s current film, CAMILLE: THE ORIGINAL MONSTER STORM (2019), will make its broadcast premiere in August.

Micro Cinema: Memphis Women in Film

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts. This month is a Memphis in May salute to Memphis presented with the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission.

This month: Memphis Women in Film
Join us as we focus on Memphis women filmmakers with a retrospective of their work in short films over the years.

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

Indie Memphis Nights: Time for Ilhan

Indie Memphis Night presented by Orion FCU

Screening of Time for Ilhan — A documentary on the journey of rising political star Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the nation’s first Somali Muslim Legislator, and her quest to redefine politics in America.

Pay what you can

Voices of the Mississippi with William Ferris

Short films based on the life’s work of William Ferris, an audio recordist, filmmaker, folklorist, and teacher with an unwavering commitment to establish and to expand the study of the American South.

** Featuring Q&A with Filmmaker William Ferris
*** FREE RSVP REQUIRED HERE: http://bit.ly/2vxRDSs

William Ferris was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1942. Growing up on a working farm, Ferris began at a young age documenting the artwork, music, and lives of the people on the farm and in his local community. The archive of recordings that he created and the documentary films that he had a hand in producing have served as powerful tools in institutions of higher learning for decades.

Featured in this screening:
GRAVEL SPRINGS FIFE AND DRUM (10 mins)
RAY LUM: MULE TRADER (18 mins)
FOUR WOMEN ARTISTS (24 mins)
BOTTLE UP AND GO (18 mins)
HUSH HOGGIES HUSH (4 mins)

Indie Memphis Nights presented by Orion FCU
Presented with Crosstown Arts