Tag: Indie Memphis

Shoot & Splice: Production Design

Have you ever wondered how movies achieve a particular look and visual style? Join Production Designer Darian Corley as she takes you through the process of conceptualizing and designing film sets and locations. From breaking down the script to identifying design styles to working with directors and cinematographers, Darian will cover it all.

Darian Corley is a production designer and prop master who has worked on dozens of films including “Scream 2,” “Hustle & Flow,” and “The Help.” Her latest feature film as production designer, “Indivisible,” is set to release in October.

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

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

Shoot & Splice: Making a Web Series

Join Jessica Chaney and Amanda Willoughby of Not Your Ordinary Films as they share secrets and give behind-the-scenes stories of creating the independent web series, This Can’t Be Life. Jessica and Amanda will discuss why they didn’t wait for a studio to pick up their TV show by creating it on their own.

They’ll also share insights into their creative process, how they built their audience, and much more. To learn more about Not Your Ordinary Films, see their Facebook page.

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

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

Shoot & Splice: Filmmaking Within Your Means

Presented by Mark Jones

Join prolific Memphis filmmaker Mark Jones as he presents his workshop and discussion, “Filmmaking Within Your Means.” Mark will share his writing and filmmaking ethos, including writing for realistic and simple locations and minimizing the amount of speaking roles. But most importantly, this workshop will help teach you how to embrace your supposed creative limitations to make a wholly unique and original film.

Mark Jones lives in Memphis, Tennessee, with his partner.  He has made three feature films, “Tennessee Queer,” “Fraternity Massacre At Hell Island,” “Eli Parker Is Getting Married?,” and one web soap opera, “On The Edge of Happiness.” Mark worked at WKNO-TV, the Memphis PBS station, for several years both on the production crew and as an associate produce for a local roundtable discussion show. He now has a web talk show, “Memphis on the Mark,” where he interviews locals artists in the fields of film, music, and theatre. Mark’s short films (“Death$ in a $mall Town,” “Winding Brook,” “Henry,” & “Best Wedding Gift”) have screened at dozens of festivals around the country.

Reception at 6:30pm, discussion begins at 7pm. Free and open to the public. Complimentary beverages will be available. Presented by Indie Memphis in collaboration with Crosstown Arts.Crosstown Arts at Crosstown Concourse // East Atrium – L2 | 280 (above the red staircase)

Shoot & Splice: Filming on Film

Many filmmakers might argue that the film vs. digital debate is dead in the water and that digital has finally won out for good. But many of the major releases in 2017 were actually shot entirely, or at least partially, on film, including Wonder Woman, The Post, Justice League, Phantom Thread, The Florida Project and I, Tonya.

Join Memphis film-making pioneer Mike McCarthy in a discussion about his own experiences shooting on film, why a filmmaker in 2018 might choose to shoot on film, and where to find resources to do so.

Mike McCarthy is an artist, musician, writer, filmmaker, and Memphian by way of Tupelo, Mississippi.  Mike released his first full-length film, Damselvis, Daughter of Helvis in 1994 and has been making films ever since.  Some of Mike’s films include Teenage Tupelo, The Sore Losers, Superstarlet A.D., and Cigarette Girl.  Mike is currently working with a non-profit TV station in Albany, Mississippi, called Hill Country Network to develop new programming.

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

Free and open to the public
Doors at 6:30 pm | discussion at 7 pm

Indie Wednesdays

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: Valerie & Her Week of Wonders (1970) — A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.

Admission is pay-what-you-can | Presented by Orion
In conjunction with Memphis in May, honoring the Czech Republic

Indie Wednesdays

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: Are We Not Cats — New Yorker Eli (Michael Patrick Nicholson) loses his girlfriend, home, and job in less than 24 hours. After landing a job transporting car parts upstate to make some quick cash, he meets Anya (Chelsea Lopez), a young woman who shares his fetish for eating hair. In this gorgeously lensed oddball debut of Xander Robin, expanded from his celebrated short film, a slow building, nerve-racking body horror plot is rapped in the concerns of indie rom coms, with potentially grotesque situations giving way to oddly heartwarming moments of mutual appreciation among these two subterranean New York outliers.

Preceded by the short film Lance Lizardi.

Admission is pay-what-you-can | Presented by Orion