Crosstown Arts
Monthly filmmaking forum hosted by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts.
Join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts as we welcome our friends from LensRentals.com. They will provide a camera and lens demonstration, and they’ll showcase some of their latest gear.
LensRentals.com is also a sponsor of the Indie Memphis IndieGrant program, now entering its fifth year. The latest news on IndieGrants and call for submissions will also be announced soon.
Doors at 6:30 pm | demo begins at 7 pm
Join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts for monthly screenings of independent films.
This legendary, low-budget, entirely African-American produced and conceived meta-soap opera from Bill Gunn, writer of the The Landlord and author of Rhinestone Sharecropping, was recently rediscovered and restored.
Introduction by Indie Memphis Senior Programmer Miriam Bale.
Pay-what-you-can
Presented by Orion FCU.
Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.
This month: Narrative Spotlight Shorts
Films include I Live Here, Mrs. Drake, Last Call Lenny, Fry Day, Gema, and New Neighbors.
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can
Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts
In Alice Bolin’s upcoming book, Dead Girls, she writes about moving to L.A. and seeing the city through a white male literary lens, and needing to trust her own eyes rather than what she’s read. Miriam Bale’s path through the male-dominated world of film criticism at New York newspapers was similarly one of learning to trust her own eyes. The two writers will have a dialogue about different ways to engage with writing about film, a misogynistic industry, as women. Dead Girls (which covers Twin Peaks to True Detective) is an essay collection out in June 2018 from William Morrow/ HarperCollins. Alice Bolin teaches nonfiction at the University of Memphis.
Miriam Bale is new Senior Programmer of the Indie Memphis Film Festival.
Doors open at 6:30pm | panel discussion begins at 7pm
Free and open to the public
Complimentary beverages
Screening of Marvin Booker Was Murdered — a film chronicling the search for justice in the case of Marvin Booker, a homeless street preacher originally from Memphis, who was beaten to death by five jail guards for simply wanting to retrieve his shoes in a Denver Detention Center. Award Winner at the 2017 Indie Memphis Film Festival.
Featuring Skype Q&A with filmmaker Wade Gardner
Pay What You Can Admission, No Tickets Required
Supported by the George Riley at MLK50 Campaign.
Indie Memphis Nights presented by Orion FCU.
Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts.
Rashna Richards will discuss what it means to teach Film and Media Studies in the twenty-first century. The first part of her talk will be based on her recent co-edited collection, For the Love of Cinema: Teaching Our Passion in and Outside the Classroom, which offers multiple ways to think about the relationship between the love of cinema and teaching. In the second half, she will expand this discussion by offering examples of her own teaching at Rhodes College and speaking more broadly about the role of film education.
Doors open at 6:30pm | discussion begins at 7pm | Free and open to the public Complimentary beverages will be available.