That Evening Sun opens at the Rigeway Four; The Conversion and Cigarette Girl land week-long run at the Studio on the Square!
Indie Memphis will host a Q&A with Actor / Producer / Oscar-winner Ray McKinnon , moderated by John Beifuss of The Commercial Appeal, after Friday's Opening Night screening of That Evening Sun
When: 7:10 pm, Friday, March 19th Where: Malco's Ridgeway Four Admission: $9.50 (standard Malco ticketing)
Ray McKinnon was born and raised in Adel, Georgia and began his professional acting career on stage in Atlanta, Georgia. McKinnon has also been writing in one form or other since he was in his teens. He wrote and directed his first film, a 38-minute, dark comedy, The Accountant, that went on to win the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2002.
Chrystal, McKinnon's feature writing and directing debut, was one of sixteen films selected for the dramatic competition in 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival. Chrystal was released in the spring of 2005 into theatres. McKinnon's second feature film, Randy and the Mob, was a film festival favorite, winning numerous awards including the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Nashville Film Festival in 2007, and was released theatrically in the fall of that year.
As an actor, McKinnon has appeared in numerous films including Bugsy, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, The Missing, and Come Early Morning, which screened at the 2006 Indie Memphis Film Festival. In television, he was in HBO's acclaimed series "Deadwood" as the Reverend H.W. Smith, and was last seen in the Mini-Series "Comanche Moon" as the now long dead, Long Bill Coleman.
UrbanArt Wins Innovation Award from First Tennessee Foundation! Curious Pictures to Light Up Downtown
Curious Pictures, a downtown-centric art installation supported by the Center City Commission, consists of projecting large-scale digital graphics and film vignettes onto 10 selected buildings of significance in Downtown Memphis. These multi-story moving illuminations will bring to life the cityscape and illustrate the possibilities and potential of public art. The project will transform downtown into a temporary interactive art installation where art, architecture and technology collide. The Memphis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will assist, and Indie Memphis and Film Fuel, a branch of Launch Memphis, will serve as partners to demonstrate Memphis' rising film community.
Ten artists from Memphis and around the world will be featured for the night of Saturday 22 May. Artists and locations shall be announced prior to the night of the show. Due to equipment costs, UrbanArt is currently seeking additional private support in the form of donations to extend the exhibition beyond one night only.
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UrbanArt Call-to-Artists for Wolf River Greenway, Phases 2 and 3
Site and Project Descriptions: UrbanArt and the City of Memphis are working together to create public artworks for the first two sections of the Wolf River Greenway to built in 2010. Additional public artworks shall be created as new greenway segments are constructed in future years.
Trail sections 'Phase 2' and 'Phase 3' are to be built along Humphreys Blvd. 'Phase 2' extends from Walnut Grove to Shady Grove, while 'Phase 3' begins at Shady Grove and terminates at Kirby Drive.
Artists will be selected based on previous experience with outdoor sculpture, and are expected to have the technical capabilities to design and install such projects, including providing maintenance instructions. Finished projects must require little to no regular maintenance. The selection committee is interested in artists who have experience with natural materials (wood, stone, metal), as well as vandalism deterring methods and applications. Sites for consideration of the final artwork installation are classified as urban edge/multi-use corridors, and should be based on visibility from trail users, as well as vehicle traffic. Final artwork should compliment the greenway setting, and respond to the distinct character of these districts, which include natural, residential, and commercial areas.
The selection committee will select 3 finalists per phase based on their qualifications, then interview each individually before selecting 1 artist to complete 1 project per project phase.
Budget: $75,000 per section Deadline: 4:00 PM, Friday, May 14, 2010 Eligibility: Regional: open to artists living within a 400-mile radius of Memphis.
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra will perform Mozart’s stirring Requiem April 10 and 11, offered in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There will be a downtown performance on April 10, at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m., and a Sunday afternoon concert will be held at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre on April 11, at 2:30 p.m. Both concerts feature works by Mozart and Mendelssohn under the direction of guest conductor Ward Stare.
This Friday (March 19), the memphian improve comedy troupe The Wiseguys bring a long form improv show that is new and unique to the area. A variation of Upright Citizens Brigade's "Asssscat", The Wiseguys' Storytellers Unplugged has the Full Moon Club roaring with laughter every show.
Press release:
The Wiseguys Present "Storytellers Unplugged" Friday March 19, 2010 8:30pm & 10:30pm Zinnie's East Full Moon Club 1718 Madison Avenue
The Wiseguys bring on guest storytellers and work their improv magic based on those stories. It's a great night of improv, stories, and fun. Special guest storytellers scheduled to appear at this show include Big Funny Productions' Sammy Marten and Katrina Murrell
Hello! We have been asked by Insomnia Film Media to request that any interested crew submit their resume for the upcoming low-budget feature "Miracle at Palmer House". Crew resumes should be brought in person to the Hilton Memphis at 939 Ridgelake Blvd., 38120, ATTN; Nicki Celozzi, Producer, and left at the front desk (they are not accepting faxed or emailed resumes at this time).
The Producer asks that resumes be brought before Friday of this week. Filming will begin on April 19th for 4 weeks.
Note: We do not have a production office number available at this time, but will email again once we have one to give out later this week.
The Conversion and Cigarette Girl Opening Friday, March 19th @ Studio on the Square Showtimes alternate daily - Visit malco.com for showtimes and ticket info.
Malco's Studio on the Square will screen Corduroy Wednesday's The Conversion and Mike McCarthy's Cigarette Girl starting Friday, March 19th.
Indie Memphis '09 - Best Hometowner Feature The Conversion June 12, 2009, the day America ushers in a bright new future, or is it? The government mandate to convert analog television signals to digital promised to be a smooth transition, however, something went wrong. America plunges into digital chaos as television, radio and internet fall silent. Is it a fluke or an attack? The government is hush as conspiracy abounds and the truth hides within tiny ones and zeros.
Cigarette Girl It's 2035 and smokers are demonized for their dirty habits, forced into a ghetto known simply as the Smoking Section where mainstream non-smoking society hopes its nicotine addicted inhabitants will simply vanish. Put simply: it's not the place you want to be walking through at night. In this Smoking Section, "Cigarette Girl" spends her days selling smokes at under market much to the chagrin of the Vice Lord who runs the Smoking Section. Then Cigarette Girl's grandmother contracts emphysema and Cigarette Girl decides to kick the habit. After three days of cold turkey Cigarette Girl has to kill for a smoke - or be killed in the Smoking Section.
Pure "smokesploitation," Cigarette Girl mixes misfit social commentary with beautiful babes and bad boys, guns and glamour, and lots of cigarettes, all shot with the feel of a classic drive-in grindhouse roughie. McCarthy's works include the crowd pleasing Sore Losers and Teenage Tupelo, regarded as a classic of the underground-into-indie film scene of the '90s.
Indie Memphis presents The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights, a visual and emotional feature length film documenting The White Stripes making their way through Canada and culminating with their 10th anniversary show in Nova Scotia.
"...can be credibly included alongside such canonical rock-docs as Gimme Shelter and Don't Look Back." ~ Los Angeles Times
Admission is $5 for the general public / Free for Indie Memphis members. Die Hard Fan Special: Come fully-dressed in White Stripes colors, and you can get in for free without a membership!
Tickets available at the door beginning at 6:30 pm the night of the screening.
Before the actor was cast, the director was hired, the sound was mixed or the wardrobe created, there was the script. Fuel Film, a not-for-profit cooperative that promotes the growth of the Memphis film industry through education and investment, is hosting the workshop, It Starts with the Script, Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. in the new University Center at the University of Memphis.
It’s true, it’s true, THE CONVERSION (Best Hometowner Feature, Indie Memphis 2009) will play at Malco Studio on the Square starting this coming Friday, March19th. Exact showtimes should be known by Wednesday.
THE CONVERSION will share a screen with another great local film, CIGARETTE GIRL, directed by Mike McCarthy.
This man helps elderly people to their car, makes sure that women get to their cars safely and helps people get out of that crazy lot! Thank you Schnucks Man! Nominated Anonymously.
On February 27th over 330 members of Fullview Missionary Baptist Church and Fayette-Ware Comprehensive High School conducted a “Freedom Ride” by performing community service and giving over $5,000 to local charities. Pastor Walter and Rev....
Annie Hulett is Something Good in Memphis. "I might be a little biased, but I would like to nominate my wife, Annie Hulett. Annie is a social worker for the state of Tennessee and she’s making a huge difference everyday in the lives of the children...
The women of the Junior League of Memphis are truly Something Good in Memphis. They work hard to make this a better community. "The Junior League of Memphis has started, coordinated, or contributed to many of Memphis' most worthwhile organizations....
Claire Ryan has been recognized as Something Good in Memphis a couple of times already. On Friday she sent me a copy of the letter that she sent to Steve Forbes about why she feels that Memphis is certainly not miserable. She gave me the...
In a search to find someone to help the inner-core of our organization to flourish, we found Agnes Pokrandt. Agnes is a unique and creative woman that finds an opportunity in every situation to produce positive results. For the past year, I have...
Some of you might have recently read Mayor Wharton's "An Open Letter to Steve Forbes" that is making the rounds online. Within 3 minutes I got it in a couple of emails from members of our department at work. These are a few of the things...
"I just read an article in The Commercial Appeal ( link ) about Dodger, the canine officer of the Shelby County Sheriff's Office, and I knew that he should be recognized as Something Good in Memphis. Along with Detective Troy Simmons, Dodger...
Amber Reed is truly Something Good in Memphis. "Amber Reed, who was crowned Miss Memphis Princess in November, is one of the young people who shows all of us that the future of our city is in good hands. Her pageant platform is Raising Awareness of...
2 weeks ago a group of doctors and staff from Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center went to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to care for children affected by the recent earthquake. The members of this team are truly something special and they are...
"Jenna has a passion for helping abused and neglected animals in the Memphis area. She is dedicated to making sure that animal cruelty in our shelters is eliminated and spotlighting shelters who are in dire need. She has an awesome website that gives...
Melissa Wolowicz is Something Good in Memphis! Scotta Allen writes, "I have
never met anyone who is as supportive of her friends and community as Melissa
Wolowicz. She is helping make Memphis a better place, and I am a better
person for knowing...
"Marlon "Big Dog" Brown officially works for SOS(Service Over Self) but is constantly in the Binghamton and Orange Mound neighborhoods helping those in need. Marlon would, and has, given the clothes off of his back and the furniture from his home for...
"Monty Shane is an incredible photographer. He creates works of art that are original, haunting, and one-of-a-kind. I personally can spot a Monty Shane photograph from across the room. Additionally, Monty is also committed to his community. He helps...
Gloria Watkins is Something Good in Memphis for the work that she is doing to better the lives of the youth in our community. "Mrs. Watkins is the new director at McFarland Community Center. Since Mrs. Watkins has been at McFarland she has been...
Dave Lindstrom is Something Good in Memphis. "I met Dave Lindstrom while volunteering at WYPL. In addition to reading there several times a week for the on-air programs, Dave is involved in volunteer activities at the YMCA and serves on their board...
Amber Reed is Something Good in Memphis. "As only an 8th grader at FACS, Amber is out trying to work hard for the community and especially the elderly by working on creating an Adopt a Senior program. In just weeks she has put together Project:...
Joey McDaniel is Something Good in Memphis. "Joey McDaniel never hesitates to go out of his way for a friend. When my family was sick, not only did he call to check on us - he offered to do a drugstore run and brought soup and cupcakes to our...
Nathan Harmeier is definitely Something Good in Memphis. "Nathan always thinks of other first. He is the owner of Above and Beyond Electric. The name speaks for itself. He is always going Above and Beyond for his customer. His main reason for going...
Zac Carpenter is Something Good in Memphis. "He has his hands in everything. He volunteered for Mayor Wharton's campaign, he spends time at the P&J Center, and is just a tireless cheerleader for the city. He moves as Memphis moves." Nominated by...
"Valerie June is Something Good in Memphis. Not only does Val add to the great mix of Memphis's sonic texture, she is a shining example of how to treat people kindly and fairly." Nominated by Jes Crownover.
"A great lady and a long time friend who maintained the Stax light." Nominated by Patrick Montier.
Deanie Parker was nominated earlier as Something Good in Memphis and was featured in the Commercial Appeal ( link ).
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Regenia Dowell is Something Good in Memphis. She is doing a great job as the Memphis Council Parent Teacher Association Treasurer, and she is really helping the children all over the city. Her job is so important to the future of our city. She is...
"Wendy is a MIFA Volunteer Long-Term Care Ombudsman at Court Manor Nursing Center in Memphis. In December, Wendy arranged with her co-workers at Mid-South Transplant Foundation to sponsor a Christmas party for Court Manor residents. They provided...
"Susan Ratner is Something Good In Memphis! Susan serves as Guardian Ad Litem in Juvenile Court, representing the best interest of the child in dependency and neglect cases. Susan works tirelessly to make sure the children are protected and...
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