Join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts for the first in-person Shoot & Splice in over 16 months! Actors Rosalyn Ross and Syderek Watson will join director GB Shannon in a panel discussion and scene exercise designed to showcase the importance of building a symbiotic relationship between actors and directors. When communication and trust is built between the talent and the director, a world of opportunity and creative discovery opens up.
What happens after the festival run of a film? To answer this and more, meet the founders of Dedza Films, a new distribution initiative dedicated to “curating and facilitating the next wave of filmmakers with a focus on underrepresented communities and early works of emerging storytellers.” They launched on June 11 with the anthology of short films, “Who Will Start the Fire” (currently available in the Indie Memphis virtual cinema).
In this virtual Shoot & Splice forum, Aaron Hunt and Kate Gondwe will describe what the distribution world is like, why they started Dedza, and how an independent filmmaker might be able to find distribution for a feature or short film.
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 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.
