Indie Memphis Film Festival: 2011 Program by Indie Memphis

Contents

Welcome

Sponsors + Supporters

Special Thanks

Festival Crew

Tickets + Passes / How To Festival

Festival Awards

Festival Jury

Opening Night Gala Screening: Undefeated

Friday Night Gala Screening: This is What Love in Action Looks Like

Saturday Night Gala Screening: Losers Take All

Closing Night Gala Screening: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)

Showcase Screenings

60 in Sixty + Secret Screenings

Narrative Features

Documentary Features

Short Film Programs

Short Films Screening with Features

IM: Artspace + Indie Memphis Arts

60 Panelists 61

Panels + Conversations

Southern Teen Filmmaking Showcase

Live Music

Kids’ Film: Eleanor’s Secret

Faces of the Fest

Film Index

Film Schedule

Street Map 2011

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W E LC O M E

Dear Friends, On behalf of the city of Memphis, welcome to Indie Memphis 14! Over the course of the last fourteen years, Indie Memphis has earned a place of distinction as one of our city’s most vital and respected arts organizations. Memphis is known around the world for the strength of our local film community, and the exposure, connections, and inspiration that Indie Memphis offers year after year are an immeasurably important part of that strength. Indie Memphis 14 is without question one of the most impressive line-ups of features, short films, and public programs in the festival’s history. To the jurors, audience members, and special guests who have joined us for a very special week of film, music, conversation, and entertainment, we are so glad you are here! To the producers, directors, writers, and actors whose films are included in the festival this year, please accept my congratulations and best wishes. A special thanks to Duncan-Williams, Inc. for joining Indie Memphis as this year’s presenting sponsor, and to all who have contributed to making this year’s festival a fabulous success. Enjoy Memphis and enjoy the films! Yours in service,

A C Wharton, Jr. Mayor, City of Memphis

Dear Independent Film Lover, Welcome to Indie Memphis Film Festival! At this festival, you’ll experience an eclectic blend of independent films — many with a Southern signature: a Southern filmmaker, a Southern location, or a uniquely Southern story. Born 14 years ago from the passion of a student film lover, Indie Memphis Film Festival has beautifully matured into a sought-after showcase for independent filmmakers from not only Memphis and the South — but also from all over the country! Indie audiences keep coming back. So will you! Wishing you a fabulous festival, Linn Sitler Commissioner, Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission “Tennessee’s Movie Capital since 1988” memphisfilmcomm.org

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SPONSORS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS

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PRODUCERS

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Independent Filmmaker

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CO-PRODUCERS

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Memphis & Shelby County Film

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John Hubbell

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and Television Commission MemphisED The Oxford American Playhouse on the Square Tennessee Arts Commission

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ASSISTANT PRODUCERS

Tom & Mara Jambor

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BR2 Productions

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Community Foundation

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of Greater Memphis GiVE365 Cooler Email Eastman Kodak Company Memphis Music Foundation Memphis Public Library & Information Center

Victoria Kandalaft & Les McGowan Memphis College of Art

Susan Murrmann, M.D. National Ornamental Metal Museum The Rendezvous Restaurant Rhodes College Robin Salant Linn Sitler Karen Spacek

Minglewood Hall

Melissa Thornton

Music + Arts

Lynn & Henry Turley

Iddo Patt & Annabel Conrad

Peggy Turley

The Recording Academy, Memphis Chapter

University of Memphis Jason Wexler Jill & Andre Yelland

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Special Thanks

American Dream Safari

Comcast

Tad Pierson

Otha Brandon, Vicky Hawkins

Another Roadside Attraction Catering

Cooler Email Daniel Lavelle

Karen Blockman Carrier

The Commercial Appeal

Fuel Café Erik Proveaux Heineken USA Patrick Ashcraft

Mollie Fontaine Lounge Loeb Properties Bob Loeb, Tom Hayes

Henry Turley Company Henry Turley, Jason Wexler, Elizabeth Tagg

Magnolia Pictures Neal Block,

do901.com Adrian Santos

Hohenberg Foundation

The Mail Center Mark and Donna Weber

Bari Ristorante e Enoteca

Do Sushi + Noodles

Juliet Wischmeyer, Adam Hohenberg

Beauty Shop Restaurant and Lounge

Downtown Memphis Commission Leslie Gower

Adam Hohenberg

BR2 Productions

Duncan-Williams, Inc.

Kerry Crawford

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Independent Filmmaker Project

John Beifuss

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Arts Memphis Susan Schadt, Karen Spacek, Lauren Boyer

Malco Theatres I Love Memphis

Brooks Museum of Art Andria Lisle

Amy Dotson, John Sylva

Memphis Laminating Company Dan Tupis

Jaco-Bryant Printers

Minglewood Hall

Elvis Presley Enterprises Camy’s Camy Archer

Scott Williams

Sam Lencke

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FedEx Corporation Lisa Daniel, Mary Harvey Gurley

Tom and Mara Jambor

Fox Searchlight

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Special Thanks

MemphisED Reid Dulberger

Nice Shoes

Running Pony

WKNO FM

Lez Rudge, Haydee Cepin

Jonathan Epstein

Kacky Walton, Darel Snodgrass, Charlene Honeycutt

The Oxford American

Robin Salant

Memphis Flyer Penelope Huston Baer, Molly Willmott, Kelli DeWitt, Christopher Myers, Chris Herrington, Chris Davis

The Weinstein Company

Warwick Sabin

Sidestreet Grill Ozark Foothills Film Festival

Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center Will Batts

Judy and Bob Pest

Southwestern Beverage Distributing

Pineapple

Gene Barzizza, Rocky Martini

Playhouse on the Square

STAX Museum of American Soul Music Lisa Allen

Daniel Guando, Heather Secrist, Selena Saldana, Nicole Quenqua

Jill, Andre, Maya and Scott Yelland

Memphis Music Foundation Dean Dayo, Pat Mitchell Worley, Cameron Mann, John Miller

Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission Linn Sitler, Sharon O’Guin

Modern Production Concepts Iddo Patt, Bill “Cutch” McCutcheon, Kim Lloyd

Jackie Nichols, Jody Koster, Whitney Jo, Lisa Lynch, Katharine Stubblefield

Sullivan Branding Bob Phillips

YoLo Taylor Berger

Glen Zipper Exclusive Media

Radical Media

Janet Tiller

Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, Paolina Poe-Azcarraga

UrbanArt Commission

All the volunteers who make this event possible.

John Weeden

Recording Academy, Memphis Chapter

Viva Memphis Photo Booth

Jon Hornyak, Lucia Kaminsky

Tommy Foster

Red Deluxe Patrick O'Connor, Suzanne Drumwright

Alex Warble

All the Indie Memphis members who support our year-round activities.

Moroch Diana Allen National Ornamental Metal Museum

All the filmmakers from Memphis and beyond!

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Festival Crew Erik Jambor Executive Director

Savannah Bearden Awards Show Producer

Teresa Maria Bell Merchandise Manager

Katie Benjamin

Les Edwards

Bill “Cutch” McCutchen

Box Office & Ticketing

Technical Supervisor

Adam Farmer

Christina Meek

ArtSpace Gallery Manager

Public Relations & Media

Natalie Hoffmann

Nicki Newburger

Indie Memphis Arts Curator & Designer

Teen Showcase Curator

Program Design & Layout

Lauren Rae Holtermann

Bob Phillips

Venue Supervisor, Studio on the Square

Public Relations & Media

Christopher Bratton

Aaron James

Robin Salant

Live Music Wrangler

Festival Team-building & Support

Festival Café Manager

Jon Burchfield Operations Supervisor

Crissy Clements Festival Intern

Shea Colburn

Joanna Kelly

Ted Speaker

Volunteer Coordinator

Web Development

Kim Lloyd

Brighid Wheeler

Sponsor Liaison

Filmmaker Liaison / Panels & Education

Venue Supervisor, Playhouse on the Square

Brett Magdovitz

Emily Yellin

Filmmaker & Jury Wrangler

VIP Gift Bags

Amanda Edmundson

Amanda Mauk

Balloting Manager

Advertising & Creative Services

Social Networking

Board of Directors

Programming Committee

Les Edwards, president

Kentucker Audley

Iddo Patt, vice-president

Savannah Bearden

Erin Hagee

Willy Bearden

Editing Services & Sponsor Loop

Kerry Hayes

Teresa Maria Bell

Adam Hohenberg

Katie Benjamin

Modern Production Concepts

John Hubbell

Lauren Boyer

Ben Couvillion and Combustion Design

Dorothy Kirsch

Jon Burchfield

Indie Memphis Film Festival Music Sampler

Pat Mitchell Worley

Nick Case

Memphis Music Foundation Sleeve design by Ronnie Lewis.

Susan Murrmann

Kerry Crawford

Jason Wexler

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Duplication and Printing by AudioGraphic Masterworks. Program Printing Jaco-Bryant Printers, Inc.

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Advisory Board

Laura Jean Hocking

Michael Almereyda

Lauren Rae Holtermann

Craig Brewer

Erik Jambor

Amy Dotson

Rachael Keating

Giancarlo Esposito

Eileen Meyer

Peter Gilbert

Adam Remsen

Robert Gordon

Lisa Sanchez

Courtney Hunt

Robin Salant

Elvis Mitchell

Hannah Sayle

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Tickets + Passes / How to Festival

Indie Memphis is all about exploration and discovery. We want you explore our program and discover your next favorite film. Feed your curiosity. Take a chance on a film you know nothing about. See if you can figure out which film will be this year’s big festival winner (or next year’s big Oscar winner). To get started, check out the festival schedule on page 70, and circle the films that pique your curiosity — or if you prefer the magic of the internet, visit our online planning guide at indiememphis.festivalgenius.com or impress your friends with the Festival Genius app for your iPhone. Next you need a festival pass, and this year we’re making things easy with three options:

will give you the freedom to truly explore the festival

Of course you can still buy individual tickets too! In advance of the festival, the only

program, providing access to all regular festival screenings,

tickets available are for the Gala Screenings: Undefeated,

as seating permits. Please note: Weekend Passes do not

This Is What Love In Action Looks Like, Losers Take All

provide admission to Gala Screenings or parties.

and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.

For $85, the Film Pass includes access to all parties and

Once the festival begins, a limited number of tickets will

the Sunday night Awards Show. Attendees with Film

be also be available for all the other films for $10 each

Passes are seated before Weekend Pass holders, making

at the venue where the screening is held (with tickets to

it a bit easier to get a seat to the more popular films.

screenings at the Brooks available for only $8 each).

The $36 Weekend Pass (or $18 for any single day)

The Film Pass also allows access to Gala Screenings, but only as seating permits after hard ticket holders and Gala Pass holders have been admitted. Of course, seating is limited by venue capacity and admission is not guaranteed for any specific screening, so please make plans to get in line early for any film you are interested in seeing. Finally, there’s the $250 Gala Pass – Arrive at least

And if you don’t have a pass and didn’t snag a ticket, you can still wander up and hit the Rush Line. After pass and tickets holders are seated, any available seats will go to the Rush Line for $10 each (or $8 each at the Brooks). That’s it! If you have any questions, or want a film recommendation, drop us an email at festival@indiememphis.com or message us on Twitter @indiememphis. See you at the movies :)

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AWA R D S

Festival Awards Jury Awards

Audience Choice Awards

Best Narrative Feature*

Narrative Feature* Documentary Feature*

Nice Shoes Award*

Short Film

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Duncan-Williams Scriptwriting Award* Includes $1,000 cash prize, presented by Duncan-Williams, Inc.

Oxford American Soul of Southern Film Award Includes $1,000 cash prize, presented by the Editors of The Oxford American. Look for films designated with a

to see which films made the final round!

Best Documentary Feature* Best Documentary Short Ron Tibbett Excellence in Filmmaking Award The Ron Tibbett Award is given annually in honor of our late

Best Narrative Short Best Animated/Experimental Film

friend and mentor Ron Tibbett — award-winning filmmaker; founder/director of the Magnolia Film Festival; and all-around source of love, good humor and inspiration. Ron loved to give awards at “The Mag;” if he could, he’d present an award to every filmmaker in attendance. We love to give awards too, so we created this one in his memory.

Best Hometowner Feature* Includes $1,000 cash prize, presented by the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission / Memphis ED

* Award includes InkTip prize package.

Best Hometowner Short Includes $1,000 cash prize, presented by the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission / Memphis ED

Hometowner films are indicated with a 2011

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Independent Film. For all the right reasons.

Jury / Narrative Features

Elvis Mitchell

is host of The Treatment for National Public Radio’s Los Angeles affiliate KCRW. He has also been entertainment critic for NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon and hosted “Independent Focus” for the Independent Film Channel and “Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence” for Turner Classic Movies. Elvis was film critic for The New York Times for four years, beginning in January 2000. He has also served as editor-at-large for Spin magazine and has written for Interview, Esquire and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. A graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, Elvis is a visiting lecturer on African and African-American studies and visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. He has twice served on the dramatic jury for the Sundance Film Festival. He presented his documentary The Black List, Volume 1 at the 2008 Indie Memphis Film Festival. This is his fourth year on the Indie Memphis jury.

Brian Newman

is the founder of Sub-Genre Media, a film and new media production, distribution and marketing company. Sub-Genre helps filmmakers and new media artists to develop their projects and bring them to an audience. Sub-Genre specializes in audience development, transmedia business practices and distribution strategies. Brian was most recently CEO of the Tribeca Film Institute, where he conceived and launched the Reframe project, a ground-breaking initiative to make available films that were “stuck on the shelf” and disappearing from access. He speaks regularly on new media, innovation, audience development and the future of the industry. He was previously executive director of IMAGE Film & Video Center, producer of the Atlanta Film Festival, and has held positions at IFP and the South Carolina Arts Commission. Brian was born in North Carolina and has an MA in Film Studies from Emory University.

Daniel Waters

came to L.A. from Indiana and wrote a screenplay while working in a video store. The screenplay was 1989’s Heathers, the darkly comic crucifixion of the Teen Film genre that continues to influence pop culture, for better or worse, to this day. From there, Daniel dived into a scary forest of studio filmmaking with varying degrees of success (Hudson Hawk, Batman Returns, and Demolition Man). Disillusioned, he embarked on a wildly unheralded directing career with Happy Campers and Sex and Death 101, for which he won the audience award for Best Director at the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival. He is currently trying to re-define the vampire genre with an adaptation of Christopher Moore’s cult novel, Bloodsucking Fiends, for 20th Century Fox with his more commercially successful younger brother, Mark, set to direct.

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Jury / Documentary Features

Peter Gilbert

produced and was the Director of Photography of the Oscar-nominated documentary Hoop Dreams, which won the Audience Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and received awards from the Producer’s Guild of America, the Independent Spirit Awards, the National Arts Club and the National Society of Film Critics, to name just a few. In addition to directing numerous commercials and music videos, Peter produced and was Director of Photography for Prefontaine and Stevie, and directed the Emmynominated With All Deliberate Speed. He co-directed At the Death House Door, his latest collaboration with Hoop Dreams co-director Steve James, which screened at the 2008 Indie Memphis Film Festival. Peter is a director with Workhorse Media in Los Angeles, Maysles Films and a member of Kartemquin Films in Chicago. This is his fourth year on the Indie Memphis jury.

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Dorothy Henckel

is the Director of Acquisitions at the Documentary Channel. After earning a B.S. in Chemistry from Indiana University she began her career as a Research Scientist at Roche Diagnostics where she worked for over 11 years. During that time, her path led her to the Indianapolis International Film Festival where over many years she learned nearly every aspect of running a film festival and later became president of the organization’s Board of Directors. From there she left big screens for small ones, said goodbye to the FDA and hello to the FCC, all to join the wild and wonderful world of television at the Documentary Channel. In her spare time Dorothy has produced several award winning short films. She is the fourth of six children and claims to be her parents’ favorite.

Paul Rachman

began his film career making underground punk films and music videos for bands such as the Bad Brains and Gang Green in the 1980s. He later rose to become one of the of the industry’s top music video directors at Propaganda Films in Los Angeles where he worked with Alice in Chains, Roger Waters, Joan Jett, The Replacements and the Pearl Jam / Soundgarden collaboration “Temple of the Dog.” By 1999 he had directed several award winning short films, Drive Baby Drive (1995), and a series of collaborations with NPR storyteller Joe Frank. He made his feature directorial debut in 2000 with Four Dogs Playing Poker, starring Forrest Whittaker, Balthazar Getty and Olivia Williams. In 2006 his seminal punk documentary American Hardcore premiered at Sundance and was theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics. He is currently finishing his second feature documentary, Lost Rockers, about musical artists who fell through the cracks of history, and he recently completed a new short film Zoe Rising about the late actress/writer Zoe Lund (Bad Lieutenant, Ms. 45). Paul is also one of the founding filmmakers of the Slamdance Film Festival. He is based in New York City.

Jury / Short Films

Mark Bell

is a veteran of the film festival circuit. He worked with the Seattle International Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival before joining Film Threat in 2003 as Senior Account Executive for Film Threat DVD. Mark was named Editor-in-Chief of Film Threat in 2005, and became owner and publisher in 2010 after purchasing Film Threat from founder Chris Gore. Mark has appeared as a film pundit on G4 TV’s “Attack of the Show,” and has also been a juror and featured panel speaker at numerous film festivals.

Skizz Cyzyk

has spent most of the past 17 years serving as Founder/Festival Director for MicroCineFest; Programming Manager for the Maryland Film Festival; Advisory Board member/juror/technical crew for the Slamdance Film Festival; technical supervisor/projectionist for the Atlanta Film Festival; and a jury member at many other festivals. This is his fourth year serving on the Indie Memphis jury. He has been making films since 1983, having recently completed Freaks in Love, a feature documentary chronicling Alice Donut’s first quarter century in underground rock. His current project, Hit & Stay, is a feature documentary about how much the antiwar movement has been influenced by activists like the Catonsville Nine. Skizz also writes for music and film magazines, serves on the Maryland Lawyers for the Arts Board of Directors, plays punk rock electric-ukulele for The Go Pills, and is the drummer for indie-pop sensations, The Jennifers, as well as Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band.

Christine Elise McCarthy

is originally from Boston and has been acting professionally for 22 years. She has been seen on many televisions shows, most notably ER, Beverly Hills 90210, HBO’s Tell Me You Love Me, Law & Order: SVU, China Beach, and In the Heat of the Night. Her film credits include many indie projects, including Route 30 and Mojave Phone Booth, as well as Boiling Point and Vanishing Point (both with Viggo Mortenson). As a writer, Christine has three episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 to her credit and had a pilot optioned by Aaron Spelling. She has also appeared at the Los Angeles comedy theaters Upright Citizens Brigade and Naked Angels, reading comical true-life essays. She has been on the selection committee of Michigan’s Waterfront Film Festival for all of its 13 years and in August wrapped Prom, the first feature in Disney’s new film franchise. Bathing & the Single Girl, screening out-ofcompetition at the festival, is Christine’s first effort in producing/directing.

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Jury / Hometowner

Adam Donaghey

is president and founder of Zero Trans Fat Productions and an award-winning independent film producer from Texas. His work has been seen at festivals and theatrical screenings all over the world. Adam’s latest projects include Eric Steele’s 2011 Austin Film Festival selection Uncertain, TX; Clay Liford’s 2011 SXSW selection Wuss; 2010 Sundance Selection My Mom Smokes Weed; 2010 SXSW selection Earthling; Independent Spirit nominee Bryan Poyser’s 2010 Sundance selection, Lovers of Hate; and Frank V. Ross’ Audrey the Trainwreck, named number eighteen on the New Yorker’s list of top 2010 films, and winner of the inaugural Nice Shoes Award at the 2010 Indie Memphis Film Festival. His features in post-production include Frank V. Ross’ latest, Tiger Tail in Blue, Ryan Harper Gray’s This is a Love Story, and Michelle Mower’s Preacher’s Daughter. His first feature film, 2009 Indie Memphis Film Festival selection St. Nick, won the Grand Jury Prize for Texas Filmmaking at AFI Dallas and was subsequently picked up by Watchmaker Films. Adam is a graduate of the University of North Texas with a B.A. in Philosophy and is a member of the Kemah Volunteer Fire Department.

Eliza Hajek

was born with a vestigial tail! Her parents took her around the world in a traveling show featuring other aberrations, where she was the star. When interest in her died down, she consulted a wise man who told her she would become rich and famous after moving to Los Angeles and becoming involved in film. Looks like he was right! Her duties as SAGindie’s Manager of Development and Sponsorship encompass (among other things) traveling to film festivals, speaking on panels and at seminars, and interacting with independent producers worldwide in order to get the word out about the SAG Low Budget Agreements.

Chris Parnell

was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1998-2006 where he was a part of many memorable sketches and commercial parodies including “The Cowbell Sketch”, “The Centaur”, “Wade Blasingame: Dog Attorney” and one of the first viral videos, “Lazy Sunday.” Chris plays Dr. Leo Spacemen on NBC’s award winning 30 Rock, and the voice of Cyril Figgis on the FX animated spy comedy, Archer. He also appears as Fred Shay opposite fellow SNL alum Ana Gasteyer on the new ABC sitcom, Suburgatory. On the big screen, Chris will be appearing in the upcoming Judd Apatow/Universal Pictures feature, The Five Year Engagement, as well as the upcoming Columbia Pictures release, 21 Jump Street. Past film work includes Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Chris had his feature film debut in 1996 in Jingle All the Way, playing a toy store salesman opposite his future governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The son of well-known Memphis voiceover artist and former disc jockey, Jack Parnell, Chris got his start early, playing a baby in a stroller in a WHBQ television commercial. His first on-camera speaking role was playing a sacker in a local Piggly Wiggly commercial. He found his calling at Germantown High School and appeared in every play and musical they would cast him in. Chris got his B.F.A. in drama from the North Carolina School of the Arts, did summer stock with the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and performed with the Alley Theater in Houston. After moving to Los Angeles and taking many improvisation and sketch writing classes at The Groundlings Theatre, Parnell became a member of the company in 1997.

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Jury / Screenwriting

Daniel Waters

(Read more about Waters on page 15.)

Craig Brewer

wrote and directed the critically acclaimed, Hustle & Flow, which won the the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and the Academy Award for best song for “Hard Out Here For A Pimp.” He moved on to direct Black Snake Moan with Samuel L Jackson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Timberlake. His remake of Footloose, starring newcomers Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough, was released in theaters in October 2011. Born in Virginia, Craig moved to Northern California and spent his childhood summers in Memphis. He grew up writing and directing plays in school, ultimately landing at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco before moving back and settling in Memphis with his wife, Jodi. After his father’s untimely death, Craig used the small inheritance to make his first feature, shot on digital video, The Poor & Hungry, which became a hit on the festival circuit. Currently, he is writing Tarzan for Warner Brothers.

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GALA SCREENING / OPENING NIGHT

Undefeated Thursday, Nov. 3 @ 6:30 pm Playhouse on the Square • 113 min. directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin GALA SCREENING Co-Presented by

Set against the backdrop of a high school football season, Undefeated is an intimate chronicle of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field. Founded in 1899, Manassas High School in North Memphis has never seen its football team, the Tigers, win a playoff game. In recent decades, the last-place Tigers had gone so far as to sell its regular season games to rival schools looking to chalk up an easy win. That began to change in 2004, when Bill Courtney, former high school football coach turned businessman, volunteered to lend a hand. When Courtney arrived, the Tigers were accustomed to timeworn equipment and a sorry patch of lawn as a practice field. Focusing on nurturing emotional as well as physical strength, Courtney has helped the Tigers find their footing and their confidence. The 2009 Summer/Fall football season promises to be the Tigers’ best ever — perhaps the season that finally breaks the 110 yearold playoff jinx. It’s the senior year for the team’s star player,

O.C., a left tackle blessed with power, size and speed. With football scholarships hanging in the balance, O.C. will have to juggle practice with the study sessions he needs to pass crucial exams. Also playing his last season is undersized offensive lineman Montrail — known to all as “Money” — an earnest honors student hoping to score an academic scholarship. For Chavis, a talented linebacker in his junior year, the challenge of 2009 lies in keeping his explosive temper in check — something the willful teenager isn’t always interested in doing. For players and coaches alike, the season will be not only about winning games — it will be about how they grapple with the unforeseeable events that are part of football and part of life. Directors’ Bios Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin met while working on the feature-length documentary film Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong, which Lindsay directed and Martin edited. Dan was born in Rockford, Illinois and graduated from the University of Missouri in. T. J was born and raised in Seattle, Washington and graduated from Western Washington University. Undefeated marks their first feature-length directorial collaboration.

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GALA SCREENING

This is What Love in Action Looks Like Friday, Nov. 4 @ 7:00 pm Playhouse on the Square • 72 min. directed by Morgan Jon Fox Co-Presented by the Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center

GALA SCREENING

This Is What Love In Action Looks Like is a feature length documentary 6 years in the making. In the summer of 2005, Zach, a 16-year-old boy from Memphis, TN wrote on his MySpace blog that he had told his parents that he was gay. Within days, his mother and father would send him to Love In Action, a fundamentalist Christian program that offered “freedom from homosexuality.” The depressed and fearful teenager shared his feelings on his blog, which quickly spread from his friends to the local community as well as gaining national attention and sparking protests outside the organization’s doors.

Director’s Bio Named “One of the top 25 new faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker magazine (2009), Morgan Jon Fox is a Memphis-based filmmaker/producer who has directed four feature films which have screened at over 50 film festivals world wide and been honored with over 15 best of fest awards.

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Including an exclusive, never before seen interview with Zach, as well as interviews with several former clients and the former director of Love in Action, This Is What Love In Action Looks Like documents the widely controversial and inspirational story of what The New York Times referred to as “a modern day message in a bottle.” 2011

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Losers Take All Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 7:00 pm Playhouse on the Square • 95 min. directed by Alex Steyermark Preceded by Two-Legged Rat Bastards (page 57)

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Losers Take All is a comedy set in the the world of indie rock, circa 1986. In it we follow The Fingers, who are formed when two average punks, Brian and Dave, recruit two reluctant metal heads — Billy and Lance — into their band. After a discouraging start, they attract the services of an oily and inept but well-meaning band manager/furniture salesman who sees The Fingers as his ticket out of his own humdrum existence. What the four young misfits in The Fingers lack in polish and discipline, they make up for in antic energy, raw talent and dumb

luck. And while they may be “losers” in the eyes of a buttoned-up mainstream society, they are determined to make their mark on the music world, or at least have a good time before everything falls apart. With the help of Simone and Vicky, the Fingers seem poised for relative greatness. Even an A&R rep from a major label is sniffing around. All the guys have to do is not screw it up, which is easier said than done. With original music rivaling the best college radio rock of the 1980’s, as well as a soundtrack featuring the classic songs of Dinosaur Jr, Husker Du, Minutemen, Guided by Voices, Black Flag, Mission of Burma, Meat Puppets, Bad Brains, Redd Kross, Minor Threat, The Descendents, Squirrel Bait, Zero Boys, The Lyres, Alex Chilton, Three Colors, Big Dipper, The Wipers, and David Porter, Losers Take All is a comedy about friends making music, as well as an unprecedented love letter to a seminal period of American indie rock.

Director’s Bio Alex Steyermark has directed the feature films, Prey for Rock & Roll, One Last Thing . . ., and the recently completed Losers Take All. Prior to directing, Steyermark distinguished himself as a film music supervisor and music producer on films by Spike Lee, Ang Lee, and Robert Rodriguez, among many others.

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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) Friday, Nov. 4 @ 2 pm Brooks Museum of Art • 150 min.

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 5:00 pm Playhouse on the Square • 121 min. directed by Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky GALA SCREENING

On May 5, 1993, the bodies of three eight-year-old boys were found next to a muddy creek in the wooded Robin Hood Hills area of West Memphis, Arkansas. A month later, three teenagers, Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley, were arrested, accused and convicted of brutally raping, mutilating and killing the boys. Fraught with innuendoes of devil worship, allegations of coerced confessions and emotionally charged statements, the case was one of the most sensational in state history. The HBO films Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000) sparked a national debate about the innocence or guilt of the West Memphis 3. Premiering at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills went on to win many accolades after its HBO presentation, receiving Emmy and Peabody Awards, and a DGA nomination, among other honors, and was named Best Documentary by the National Board of Review. With the support of HBO, the filmmakers have stuck with the story over an 18-year period, making these compelling films in order to continue to shed light, raise awareness and spur debate about the events that transpired at that time and in the years after the convictions. On August 19, 2011, the West Memphis 3 were released from prison.

“Eighteen years and three films ago, we started this journey to document the terrible murders of three innocent boys and the subsequent circus that followed the arrests and convictions of Baldwin, Echols and Misskelley,” said director and producer Joe Berlinger. “To see our work culminate in the righting of this tragic miscarriage of justice is more than a filmmaker could ask for.” Added co-director Bruce Sinofsky, “We, along with HBO, are humbled to be a part of this remarkable outcome.” Directors’ Bios In 1991, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky produced, directed and edited the nonfiction feature Brother’s Keeper, named 1992’s Best Documentary by the DGA, the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review and the Boston Society of Film Critics. Together, Sinofsky and Berlinger went on to create many landmark films, including Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, the acclaimed rockumentary about the superstar group. Berlinger’s Crude, about oil pollution in the Amazon Rainforest, recently triggered a high-profile First Amendment battle with oil-giant Chevron. Sinofsky’s Good Rockin’ Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records, which tells the definitive story of rock and roll’s most influential record label. @Paradiselost3

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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is the true story of one of the most notorious murder cases in U.S. history and the aftermath in which three teenagers were convicted of murder in — what some claimed — was an atmosphere of “Satanic Panic.” Fraught with innuendos of devil worship, allegations of coerced confessions and emotionally charged statements, the case was one of the most sensational in recent times. The filmmakers captured these shocking events as they unfolded before their cameras with unprecedented access to all the players in this real-life human drama — from actual courtroom footage to clandestine jail house interviews, from behind-the-scenes strategy meetings to intimate portraits of grief-stricken families in this strange, yet uniquely American, drama. My Rating

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000) Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 11 am Brooks Museum of Art • 130 min.

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations returns to the site of the Robin Hood Hills murders to probe issues raised by the first film, and by the groundswell of public interest that it inspired. Featured are in-person interviews with the convicted men: Jason Baldwin, now 22, sentenced to life without parole; Jessie Misskelley, now 23, sentenced to life plus 40 years; and Damien Echols, now 24, awaiting execution on death row. At this point Echols has exhausted his state appeals options, and his last hope lies in a pending federal habeas corpus proceeding. If a federal judge declines to hear his case, his execution by lethal injection could take place as early as this year. Also included in the film are interviews with the original judge, police investigators, one of the victims’ parents and the support group Free The West Memphis 3. My Rating

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Dragonslayer

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 7:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 4:45 pm

Studio on the Square • 74 min.

Studio on the Square • 83 min.

directed by Tristan Patterson

directed by Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass

Dragonslayer documents the transgressions of a lost skate punk falling in love in the stagnant suburbs of Fullerton, California in the aftermath of America’s economic collapse. Taking the viewer through a golden SoCal haze of broken homes, abandoned swimming pools and stray glimpses of unusual beauty, the film captures the life and times of Josh “Skreech” Sandoval, a local skate legend and new father, as his endless summer finally collides with the future.

On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. However, a series of comedic and unexpected events leads him to cross paths with his family in the strangest of locations and circumstances. Jeff just may find the meaning of his life... and if he’s lucky, pick up the wood glue as well.

Set to the alternately roaring and dreamy soundtrack of bands from the indie labels Mexican Summer and Kemado Records — including Best Coast, Bipolar Bear, Children, Dungen, Eddy Current and the Suppression Ring, Golden Triangle, Jacuzzi Boys, Little Girls, Real Estate, The Soft Pack, Saviours, as well as DEATH and Thee Oh Sees — Dragonslayer is a punk- rock manifesto to youth, love and learning to survive after the decline of western civilization.

Jeff, Who Lives At Home stars Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Judy Greer and Susan Sarandon. Penned by the writer/director team of brothers Jay and Mark Duplass (Cyrus, Baghead, The Puffy Chair), this is the story of one man searching for the meaning of life while running to the store to buy wood glue. Director’s Bio After a series of micro-budget Sundance shorts in 2003 and 2004, Jay and Mark Duplass

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premiered their first feature The Puffy Chair

Tristan Patterson is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. He has written

for two Independent Spirit Awards and won

screenplays for Disney, Fox and Warner Brothers, and is currently writing

the Emerging Vision Award at the SXSW Film

American Cigarette for director Tony Scott and Fox 2000. He is attached

Festival. The brothers’ second effort Baghead

to direct his own screenplay Electric Slide starring Ewan McGregor for

played at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival,

Killer Films and Myriad Pictures. Dragonslayer, his first feature, was the

and was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.

Grand Jury Prize winner for Best Documentary Feature at SXSW 2011.

In 2010, Fox Searchlight released the Duplass’

at Sundance in 2005. The film was nominated

Cyrus, starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei. In addition to the brothers writing

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scripts for several studios, Jay also works as a documentary filmmaker and Mark as an actor (FX’s “The League,” Humpday, Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, and Indie Memphis alum Lynn Shelton’s latest Your Sister’s Sister).

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The Interrupters

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Friday, Nov. 4 @ 11:00 am

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 9:45 pm

Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 2:00 pm

Studio on the Square • 120 min.

Brooks Museum of Art • 190 min.

directed by Sean Durkin

directed by Steve James

Elizabeth Olsen stars in Martha Marcy May Marlene about a young woman who undergoes an explosive crisis of identity after escaping the confines of a rural cult-like farming community. Trapped by unsettling flashes of memories from the past and visions of a perilous future, she becomes taken over by an unsettling sense of fear, leaving her consumed by paranoia and a mysterious burden of guilt. The film, winner of the Best Director Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and the Cannes Prix de la Jeunesse, begins with Martha (Elizabeth Olsen in her feature film debut) running from an idyllic farmhouse into the woods of Upstate New York. Terrified, and with nowhere to turn, she calls the estranged sister she hasn’t seen in years (Sarah Paulson), and suddenly finds herself in a lush, lakeside Connecticut summerhouse with Lucy and her new husband Ted (Hugh Dancy). Martha may have run away, but she still is held captive by memories that slowly, devastatingly, begin to creep up on her. Seeping into her fledgling new life, revealing all that she has been through, from the innocent desire for familial love that brought her to a secluded farm commune to her chilling relationship with the fatherly but manipulative community leader Patrick (AcademyAward nominee John Hawkes, star of Indie Memphis 2010’s Earthwork). The result is a closely observed tale of psychological suspense that is also an arresting meditation on identity, vulnerability and the hunger for family in forms both tender and dangerous.

Living, breathing, modern-day heroes are inspiring hope on the scary streets of Chicago. Meet the Interrupters — former gang members who disrupt violence in their neighborhoods as it happens. Acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) working with noted author Alex Kotlowitz, recounts the gripping stories of men and women who, with bravado, humility, and humor, strive to protect their communities from the brutality they once employed. With his signature intimate vérité, James follows these individuals over the course of a year as they attempt to intervene in disputes before they turn violent: two brothers who threaten to shoot each other, an angry teenage girl just home from prison, and a young man on a warpath of revenge. Both a voyage into the stubborn persistence of bloodshed in our cities today and a beacon of light, James’s unforgettable documentary captures each Interrupter’s inspired work, transporting us on a powerful journey from crime to trust to redemption. Director’s Bio Steve James is best known as the director, producer, and co-editor of Hoop Dreams, which won every major critics award in 1995. The film earned Steve the Directors Guild of America Award, The MTV Movie Awards “Best New Filmmaker” and an Oscar nomination for editing. Hoop Dreams was selected for the Library of Congress’ National Film

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Registry, signifying the film’s enduring importance to American film history. Steve’s other award-winning films include Stevie; Indie Memphis

Sean Durkin’s short film Mary Last Seen premiered

2009’s At the Death House Door, which won numerous festivals and was

at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival before going

Steve’s fourth film to be officially short-listed for the Academy Award;

on to win the Prix SFR at the Directors’ Fortnight

and No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson.

at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival. Martha Marcy May Marlene, Durkin’s first feature

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film, was selected for the 2010 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs. He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the co-founder of Borderline Films.

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Melancholia

Taxi Driver

Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 12:00 pm

Thursday, Nov. 3 @ 9:15 pm

Studio on the Square • 135 min.

Friday, Nov. 4 @ 3:00 pm

directed by Lars von Trier

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 11:00 am

Sponsored by Alarum Pictures

Studio on the Square • 113 min.

In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-inlaw John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth...

directed by Martin Scorsese

Enjoy the brand new digital restoration of this Martin Scorsese masterpiece the way it was meant to be seen — in the theatre! Robert DeNiro plays an alienated, battle-scarred loner who embarks on a mission of misguided revenge in the seedy underbelly of nighttime Manhattan.

Melancholia is a psychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier. Director’s Bio Lars von Trier is the acclaimed award-winning Danish filmmaker of Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, The Five Obstructions, Manderlay, Antichrist and, most recently Melancholia.

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These Amazing Shadows Thursday, Nov. 3 @ 7:00 pm Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 11:30 am Brooks Museum of Art • 86 min. directed by Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton

From Dorothy’s entrance into Oz to the pizza delivery at Ridgemont High, cinematic moments take on iconic levels of meaning in a film lover’s life. As the government-appointed protector of our cinematic legacy, the National Film Registry selects culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant works for preservation in the Library of Congress. From award-winning features to music videos, experimental films to home movies, each registry selection reflects a truth of its time or a standout artistic vision. Through interviews with registry board members, archivists, and notable filmmakers like John Singleton and John Waters, directors Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton demonstrate the way film documents artistic and societal milestones. Guided by a true cinephile’s love of the medium and a treasure trove of archival footage, These Amazing Shadows molds a cultural history from pieces of film, offering a microcosm of the work of the National Film Registry and making a powerful case for film preservation. Director’s Bio

Where Soldiers Come From Thursday, Nov. 3 @ 7:00 pm Studio on the Square • 90 min. directed by Heather Courtney

Enticed by a $20,000 signing bonus and the college tuition support, best friends Dominic and Cole join the National Guard after graduating from their rural high school. After persuading several of their friends to join them, the young men are sent to Afghanistan, where they spend their days sweeping for roadside bombs. By the time their deployment ends, they are no longer the carefree group of friends they were before enlisting; repeated bombs blowing up around their convoys have led to the new silent signature wound of the Afghan war, Traumatic Brain Injury, and they have all become increasingly disillusioned about their mission. The challenges really begin to surface when they return to their families and communities in Michigan and try to fit back into their daily routines. Where Soldiers Come From looks beyond the guns and policies of an ongoing war to examine the war’s effect on parents, loved ones and the whole community when young people go off to fight. Director’s Bio Heather Courtney has directed and produced several documentary films including award-winners Letters From the Other Side and Los Trabajadores. With Where Soldiers Come From, she was a Sundance

Paul Mariano practiced as a criminal defense

Edit and Story Lab fellow, and a 2009 recipient of the prestigious United

attorney for 27 years. Upon retirement, he

States Artists fellowship. Her films have been funded by a Fulbright

co-founded Gravitas Docufilms. His directorial

Fellowship, ITVS, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Paul Robeson

debut, Also Ran, won the award for Best Political

Fund, and the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund. She was recently

Documentary at the 2006 Atlanta Docufest.

named one of Film Independent’s Top 10 Filmmakers to Watch.

Kurt Norton has written, directed, and produced numerous narrative shorts, including The Long

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Weekend and 17 Reasons Why, which have screened at film festivals across the country.

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Sixty in 60 Nov. 3–6 (on continuous loop during the festival weekend) Brooks Museum of Art • 60 min.

Sixty in 60 is an experimental art film featuring sixty one-minute works by Ronnie Cramer. Genres represented include abstract, animation, documentary, experimental, narrative, stop-motion, time-lapse and video art. Individual works include: Sunrise A History of Campaign Buttons Sixteen Simultaneous Cereal Commercials Still Life

Ask Me No Questions Wide Glide Route 66 Sheila Traister Takes a Stroll

Black and White

People and Their Meals

Saturday

Tails

Melt

Christine Fetzer Wrestles a Guy on the Bed in Her Motel Room

Ellery Queen’s Minute Mysteries

Mugs Go Fish Crossing Kansas: Denver to Kansas City in One Minute

Monday History of the World in One Minute ePaint Storm Moon Tuesday

Jigsaw

Lao-Tzu

Quiet Please

Peeking at Christmas Presents

SYMBOLism Sunday The Web dogfence 600 Circles Monica McFarland Blows a Take

Rock Stars Age Up & Down Feeding Time 4 Explosions Sidewalk Closed Wednesday

Bath and Breakfast Bricks Vivienne Va Voom

Secret Screening #1 Friday, Nov. 4 @ 3:30 pm Studio on the Square • 60 min.

A story of three emerging artists juggling relationships and ambitions.

Goodbye VHS No Two Alike Holy Moley! Thursday Welcome to the Future The Window Add Water Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion a 12-Part Serial in One Minute Marshall McLuhan Speaks Same Trip (TwentyThree Years Apart) Sixteen Thousand Words Footsteps Friday Another Puzzle

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Eclipse

Friday, Nov. 4 @ 9:30 pm

The Late Late Late Show

Studio on the Square • 90 min.

Sunset

A Memphis outlaw returns. Stand back.

Abstract

Director’s Bio Artist/musician/filmmaker Ronnie Cramer has been active in the arts community for over thirty years. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and other venues across the country, his music has achieved airplay on over 100 radio stations nationwide and his critically-acclaimed films have been screened at festivals around the world. He has also been featured as a guest lecturer on art and media at numerous museums and universities. 2011

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Bad Fever

Butterfly Rising

David

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 5:00 pm

Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 5:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 1:00 pm

Studio on the Square • 77 min.

Studio on the Square • 92 min.

Studio on the Square • 80 min.

directed by Dustin Guy Defa

directed by Tanya Wright

directed by Joel Fendelman

Alternatingly quiet and delirious, always desperate, Bad Fever is a witness to one man’s broken American Dream and his eternal longing to find someone, anyone, who understands or even pretends to understand.

Shot entirely on location in Columbus, Mississippi Butterfly Rising is a provocative, contemporary take on the biblical story of Mary and Martha and their brother Lazarus. A decidedly indie-style film with a “vintage” feel, Butterfly Rising deals with universal themes that cross race, sex and class boundaries; its potent, human story has a positive message about love, pain and loss as two women — Rose and Lilah — embark on a road trip to the City of New Hope to meet a mythical medicine man named Lazarus of the Butterflies.

As the son of the Imam of the local Brooklyn mosque, eleven year-old Daud has to juggle the high expectations of his father (Maz Jobrani) and his feelings of isolation and difference — even from his peers in the Muslim community. Through an innocent act of good faith, Daud inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys who mistake him as a fellow classmate at their orthodox school in the neighboring Jewish community. A genuine friendship grows between Daud and Yoav, one of the Jewish boys, and his family. Unable to resist the joy of a camaraderie that he has never felt before, David, as he is known to the kids, is drawn into a complicated dilemma based upon both youthful deceit and the best of intentions.

Eddie bumbles his way through an agonizing courtship with Irene, a manipulating drifter who videotapes their fleeting moments together. To express his true feelings for her, he painstakingly orchestrates his debut stand-up performance at the local comedy club. Here is a portrait of two lonely trains passing each other by on the emotional railroad tracks of a forgotten city.

Director’s Bio Tanya Wright plays the role of Deputy Kenya Jones on HBO’s True Blood; she has also appeared on such shows as 24, NYPD Blue

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and ER. Wright next appears opposite Jesse

Dustin Guy Defa has been making movies

Eisenberg and Academy Award-winner Melissa

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since he was eleven. His new short film, Family

Leo in the independent film Predisposed.

Joel Fendelman is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker

Nightmare, is a document about his childhood.

Butterfly Rising marks her feature film

who’s feature documentary debut, Needle

He lives in Brooklyn.

directorial debut.

Through Brick, won the Silver Palm award at the Mexico International Film Festival. Based

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any album by

Aretha Franklin’s

Jewish in Miami, David, based on his 2010 Indie

Thelonius Monk

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Memphis Film Festival short film award-winner, was created to explore themes of identity and the struggle to fit in.

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The Dish & The Spoon How to Cheat

Five Time Champion

Thursday, Nov. 3 @ 6:45 pm

Friday, Nov. 4 @ 9:45 pm

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 1:45 pm

Studio on the Square • 92 min.

Studio on the Square • 97 min.

Studio on the Square • 90 min.

directed by Alison Bagnall

directed by Amber Sealey

directed by Berndt Mader

Preceded by Bathing and the Single Girl (page 57)

With his father out of the picture, his mother and grandfather embroiled in possible explicit affairs, and his girlfriend flirting with a would be rival, the young scientist Julius recoils into the relative order of his homespun experimentation on worms. But when his science seems to have resulted in failure, Julius falls deeper into his darkness and risks his own self destruction. Overwhelmed with his situation, he sets out to meet his father and discover the truth behind what is troubling him.

Devastated by the news of her husband’s affair and convulsed by waves of grief and rage, twenty-something Rose (Greta Gerwig) drives to a sleepy seaside town in Delaware, intent on finding her spouse’s lover. Climbing into an old lighthouse on the beach to swill a six-pack of beer, Rose stumbles upon a sleeping British teenager whom she wakes and insists on taking somewhere. The chatty, ludicrously attired youth becomes an invaluable foil and unlikely caretaker for troubled Rose, spinning stories of his own dysfunctional past that may or may not be true. As the grey winter days roll by, the mismatched pair embark on a series of frolicsome adventures that bring them into closer quarters, igniting a bittersweet, perhaps imaginary romance.

In this funny and honest depiction of the messiness of modern marriage, writerdirector Amber Sealey (Indie Memphis 2009’s A Plus D) stars as Beth, a woman of childbearing age and inclination who, with her husband Mark, has been struggling to conceive. Sealey’s guileless performance as a woman betrayed by her own body is matched by Kent Osborne’s (Uncle Kent, Hannah Takes the Stairs) as the awkward Mark, who, confused and frustrated, turns to online dating, where he shops for the perfect affair to shake up his life. Given his counterproductive tendency to reveal his motives up front, his encounters tend to be short and ugly -- until he meets the avid Louise, whose complex attitude sets them all down an unexpected path.

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Film Festival. His most recent film, Road to

Alison Bagnall made her feature film directorial

Amber is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. How

Tlacotepec, won the Audience Award at the

debut in 2003 with the coming-of-age film

Director’s Bio Berndt Mader is a director and writer living in Austin, Texas. He has written and directed films that have screened at festivals around the globe. His film A Neutral Density won Best Screenplay at the 2005 Cinematexas

To Cheat is her second feature. Her first, A

2008 Austin Film Festival. Mader holds an MFA

Piggie. She co-wrote the critically acclaimed

Plus D, premiered at the Montreal World Film

degree in filmmaking from the University of

Buffalo 66 — a collaboration with director

Festival, where critics said, “Fact and fiction

Texas at Austin and is co-owner of the Austin-

Vincent Gallo. Alison is a graduate of Yale

are obliterated… edgy, anguished, funny... The

based production company The Bear Media.

University, where she studied Humanities and

acting is astonishing... I thought of Cassavetes,

Five Time Champion is his first feature film

was also a directing fellow at the American

Winterbottom.” It went on to screen at Indie

to write and direct.

Film Institute.

Memphis, Filmstock UK, and San Francisco

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Up Close by Philip Glass

@ambersealey

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A Little Closer

Lord Byron

Prairie Love

Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 5:45 pm

Friday, Nov. 4 @ 7:15 pm

Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 3:00 pm

Studio on the Square • 72 min.

Studio on the Square • 91 min.

Studio on the Square • 85 min.

directed by Matthew Petock

directed by Zack Godshall

directed by Dusty Bias

Preceded by Be Still (page 57)

Preceded by Love, Lots of It (page 57)

Preceded by Surprise (page 57)

In the forgotten corners of rural Virginia, Sheryl struggles to balance her work as a housekeeper and raising her two sons, fifteen year-old Marc and eleven year-old Stephen. Hoping to meet the love of her life and bring home a father for her boys, she frequents a depressing, weekly mixer for the town’s aging singles set. Meanwhile, Marc is desperate to lose his virginity and Stephen, in the throes of sexual discovery, becomes infatuated with his schoolteacher while struggling to win the approval of a group of peers who adamantly detest her.

Byron has always been a lover of women. He’s a romantic, and he loves all of his girlfriends the same way — totally and completely. But he’s grown restless in his middle-age, and recently he has found himself lost in some heavy thoughts about big things like God, and love, and time. So when a demon-obsessed televangelist suggests that he retreat from the chaos of the world, Byron escapes his town and embarks on a spiritual journey of the fantastic kind.

A mysterious stranger rescues a rural man from a frosty demise. Upon learning that the man is on his way to visit his jailed penpal girlfriend, the stranger decides to adopt the man’s identity and visit the woman himself. Set in the icy North Dakota winter, this offbeat indie feature is a story that explores some of the peculiar forms that human love can take.

Lord Byron is a deadpan Greek tragedy set in South Louisiana and features a cast of bizarre, comedic characters who all pursue uncommon dreams and missions of their own making.

Writer/Director Dusty Bias’ feature directorial

A Little Closer examines the disparate and nuanced states of sexuality as well as the role familial influence can play within a disconnected emotional landscape of rural America.

Director’s Bio debut Prairie Love premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film has since developed a fan base for its dark, quirky characters and storyline, as well as several awards throughout this festival season, including two Grand Jury Narrative Feature Awards. The film recently secured North

Director’s Bio Zack Godshall lives South Louisiana where

American distribution with

Matt Petock grew up in Richmond, Virginia and

he makes fictional and documentary films. His

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moved to New York in 2003 to study film at

first film, Low and Behold, a story of friendship

NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His short film

set in post-Katrina New Orleans, premiered at

Jackson Ward screened at festivals throughout

Sundance in 2007. He self-released his second

Bring it on Home:

North America, including at the 2008 Indie

film, God’s Architects, an award-winning

The Soul Classics

Memphis Film Festival. A Little Closer, his

documentary about five visionary builders.

by Aaron Neville

first feature, premiered at the Rotterdam

Lord Byron is his third feature film.

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International Film Festival.

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Snow on Tha Bluff

Without

Woman’s Picture

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 10:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 7:30 pm

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 1:15 pm

Studio on the Square • 92 min.

Studio on the Square • 120 min.

Studio on the Square • 104 min.

directed by Damon Russell

directed by Mark Jackson

directed by Brian Pera

When Curtis steals a video camera in a dope deal, he gives the camera to his best friend, Pancho, and they start documenting their lives. He sells drugs, he runs from the cops, all while trying to provide for his baby momma and two-year-old son. But when one of the drug dealers he ripped off comes back for revenge, things in Curt’s life start to spiral out of control. Through Curt’s camera we get an unprecedented glimpse into life on the streets of the infamous West Atlanta neighborhood, known as Tha Bluff.

On a remote wooded island, a young woman becomes caretaker to an old man in a vegetative state. She has no cell signal, no internet. Only a year removed from high school and forced to meet the needs of a man who cannot respond, Joslyn vacillates between finding solace in his company and feeling fear and anger towards him. As the monotony of daily routine starts to unravel, boundaries collapse and Joslyn struggles with sexuality, guilt and loss.

Preceded by Silent Movie (page 57)

Director’s Bio Director’s Bio

Named One of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New

Damon Russell grew up in Atlanta, Georgia in

Faces of Independent film, Mark Jackson was

a neighborhood far, far away from Tha Bluff.

born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He

He attended Georgia State University and

graduated with a degree in literature from the

studied Film and Television. After graduation

University of California and went on to pursue

he moved to New York City and shot, directed

graduate studies in cinematography at Rome’s

and produced The Cage, a feature length

Cinecitta’ Studios. Without is his first film.

documentary about the famous basketball court in New York City’s West Village. Snow on tha Bluff marks his narrative feature directing debut.

An homage to the women’s films of the thirties, forties, and fifties, Woman’s Picture follows three very different women living in three different parts of the country, each totally oblivious to the others, as they approach a defining moment of selfrealization. Woman’s Picture looks at how each woman’s environment shapes and even defines her, asking whether she’s limited or liberated by the process.

Director’s Bio Brian Pera has published a novel (Troublemaker) and co-edited a collection of film writing (Life as We Show It, City Lights). His first film, The Way I See Things, opened the MIX festival in Milan, where Brian was awarded a citation for achievement in first-time filmmaking. At the 2008 Indie Memphis Film Festival, it won

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the Audience Award for Hometowner Feature.

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Woman’s Picture is his second film.

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@snowonthabluff

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Documentary Features

Beatboxing: The Fifth Better than Something: Black Rock Revival: Element of Hip Hop Jay Reatard Mission Control Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 12:30 pm

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 10:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 4:30 am

Studio on the Square • 54 min.

Playhouse on the Square • 89 min.

Studio on the Square • 80 min.

directed by Klaus Schneyder

directed by Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz

directed by Antoine Beane and Larry McKinney

Better Than Something is an intimate portrait of the late garage musician Jay Reatard, who toured the world and released dozens of records over the course of a 15 year career that began in his teens. Original and never-before-seen footage documents his self-made journey to iconic underground rock star, with colleagues, friends, and family speaking candidly about Jay’s prolific and notorious career. Jay Reatard himself — filmed just eight months before his untimely death at the age of twenty-nine — speaks openly about his vibrant and complicated life, while taking the filmmakers on an incredibly personal tour of his hometown of Memphis.

Filmed during the two-day recording process of their second album (of the same name) at Archer Studios in Midtown Memphis, this documentary tells of the band’s journey of building a name and sound for themselves in a scene where traditional rock music is looked upon as a thing of the past.

It was in the late 70s that a youth culture evolved in the poorer parts of New York which combined several disciplines under the name of Hip Hop. Apart from the four classic elements of graffiti writing, deejaying, breakdancing, and rapping, the musical side of this culture was enhanced by a fifth element called ‘Beatboxing’. Beatboxing: The Fifth Element of Hip Hop aims at providing a full picture of this incredible art form starting with its genesis within Hip Hop culture and continuing with its further developments and its use in various musical fields in several countries throughout the world.

Director’s Bio Antoine Beane and Larry McKinney have over twenty years of TV and film production experience between them. For eleven years, they have worked in every area of entertainment: film, music videos, news, reality, game shows, corporate videos, and web

Director’s Bio

Directors’ Bios

Klaus Schneyder was born in Düsseldorf,

Alexandria Hammond is a Mexican-American

Germany. From 1997 to 1999 he studied

filmmaker based in New York City whose

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English and Music, becoming a teacher at

feature documentary debut, Children of Haiti,

Mission Control

the University of Münster. In 2006 he started

aired on PBS’s Independent Lens in January,

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working on Beatboxing: The Fifth Element of Hip

2011. She is a graduate of California Institute of

Hop, gathering footage from several countries

the Arts. Ian Markiewicz is a New York-based

of the world. It is his first documentary feature.

content. This is their first independent feature.

independent filmmaker who has collaborated with documentary pioneer Albert Maysles as co-

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director and editor since 2006, including on The

Beat Boys

Beales of Grey Gardens and The Rolling Stones:

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Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out! 40th Anniversary. He is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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Documentary Features

Fake It So Real

Give Up Tomorrow

Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 3:15 pm

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 7:15 pm

Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis

Studio on the Square • 94 min.

Studio on the Square • 95 min.

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 2:00 pm

directed by Robert Greene

Spanish, English Subtitles

Studio on the Square • 86 min.

Fake It So Real follows a ragtag group of wrestlers in North Carolina over a week leading up to a big show. The film explores what happens when the over-the-top theatrics of the wrestling ring collide with the realities of the working-class South. Gabriel is the rookie trying to make it to the Big Time and be part of this family of tough guys. Jeff is the leader who may miss his first show in ten years due to an unexpected and debilitating injury. J-Prep, Zane, Pitt, Solar and the rest of the crew each face obstacles on their way to the big show. They aren’t paid for their passion, but they treat wrestling like any artist treats his work. This is a film about doing something real. Fake It So Real shares the triumphs and heartaches of an often-times underappreciated American art form.

directed by Michael Collins

Set amidst old world vestiges of colonialism, classism and backdoor politics in the Philippines, Give Up Tomorrow rivetingly exposes a Kafkaesque contemporary world of corruption and injustice. In a murder case that ends a nation’s use of capital punishment, but fails to free an innocent man, two grieving mothers personify the chasms — both nightmarish in scope — that divide two families and, by extension, a nation. Director’s Bios Michael is the founder of Thoughtful Robot, a production company based in New York City committed to crafting compelling social justice films that galvanize change. Give Up Tomorrow is his first full-length feature film.

Director’s Bio Robert’s film Kati With An I was nominated

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for a Gotham Award and opened theatrically

I’m Wide Awake,

in 2011. His debut, Owning The Weather, was

It’s Morning

released in 2010. At 4th Row Films, Robert has

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produced and edited documentaries such as

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HBO’s An Omar Broadway Film and First Run Features’ Making The Boys.

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directed by Peter Sasowsky Preceded by Come on Down and Pick Me Up (page 57)

Almost thirty years ago, a peg-legged artist and motorcycle mechanic from Mississippi walked into MITs Center for Advanced Visual Studies and demanded a meeting with the Director. Forty-five minutes later, after trashing the receptionist’s desk and holding off the police, Joe Davis walked out with an academic appointment at MIT. His status there has provided him with resources for much of his work — including sending vaginal contractions into space to communicate with aliens, poetry encoded into DNA, and a language to write the world beneath the world. His gig at MIT is unpaid. He gets evicted from several apartments and loses his lab space to science. He is claimed by neither the Art nor Scientific communities. But to Joe, it’s more important to try to discover man’s place in the cosmos. Director’s Bio Peter has been producing and directing film and video projects in New York City and around the world for over a decade. He’s the founder

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and director of Serious Motion Pictures, a script to screen production company that produces

Alien Lanes

documentary and narrative films, corporate

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communications and educational media.

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Holy Rollers: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: The True Story of Card An Urban History Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 4:15 pm Counting Christians Friday, Nov. 4 @ 7:00 pm Studio on the Square • 92 min. directed by Bryan Storkel

Holy Rollers follows the rise of the Churchteam, arguably the largest and most well funded blackjack team in America. In their short existence, they have taken millions from casinos. But since every team member is a Christian and some are pastors, there is a constant battle to answer this question: How can you be Christian and play blackjack for a living? In their first year, the team took $1.6 million from casinos, but slowly the team’s success starts to fall apart. They haven’t closed a bankroll in over six months and the team is down $450,000. The investors are getting nervous and something has to change. In addition, questions start being raised as to whether someone from the team might be stealing from the bankroll. Is it possible? Of course. But do they trust the players on the team? Absolutely. Maybe.

Studio on the Square • 46 min.

directed by Chad Freidrichs

directed by Dee Garceau Preceded by Home Game (page 57)

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Destroyed in a dramatic and highlypublicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The PruittIgoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project’s residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe. Director’s Bio Chad Freidrichs has been working as an His previous feature-length documentaries

Director’s Bio his second feature film endeavor. He served as DP and Editor on the documentary Strictly Background, which studied Hollywood through the eyes of movie extras.

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 11:15 am

Playhouse on the Square • 79 min.

independent filmmaker for over a decade.

Holy Rollers is Bryan’s directorial debut, and

Stepping: Beyond the Line

are Jandek on Corwood and First Impersonator. He also recently completed the narrative short Red Cloud, a cold-war sci-fi thriller. Chad teaches film and video courses in the Digital Filmmaking program at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.

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Stepping: Beyond the Line film explores the history of stepping, an African-American dance form created by black fraternities and sororities during the mid-twentieth century. Choreographed for maximum impact, these group dances stomp out a rhythm on the floor and on the body, expressing identities and struggles, hopes and dreams. Indeed, how this dance form evolved becomes a window on the history of African-American struggles for justice in the segregated South. Featured in this doc are interviews with steppers, footage of step practices and step shows, and archival images of its historic roots. An original soundtrack produced by Memphis musician Steve Selvidge adds further dimension. Director’s Bio Dee Garceau is an historian-turned-filmmaker who teaches at Rhodes College. She coproduced A Capitol Beat, about Go-Go, a distinctive music indigeneous to Washington, D.C.’s black neighborhoods. History is far more than “the past,” she says, “its with us all the time, shaping the ways we see the world and connect with others, shaping the ways we dance.”

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This is What Love In Action Looks Like

To Be Heard

The Wonder Year

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 2:00 pm

Thursday, Nov. 3 @ 9:30 pm

Friday, Nov. 4 @ 7:00 pm

Brooks Museum of Art • 87 min.

Studio on the Square • 79 min.

Playhouse on the Square • 72 min.

directed by Amy Sultan, Deborah Shaffer, Roland Legiardi-Laura, Edwin Martinez

directed by Kenneth Price

directed by Morgan Jon Fox GALA SCREENING

In the summer of 2005, Zach, a 16-yearold boy from Memphis, TN wrote on his MySpace blog that he had told his parents he was gay. Within days, his mother and father would send him to Love In Action, a fundamentalist Christian program that offered “freedom from homosexuality”. The depressed and fearful teenager shared his feelings on his blog, which quickly spread from his friends to the local community as well as gaining national attention and sparking protests outside the organization’s doors. Including an exclusive, never before seen interview with Zach, as well as interviews with several former clients and the former director of Love In Action . . . This is What Love In Action Looks Like documents the widely controversial and inspirational story.

Three Bronx teens search for their voices and an answer to the question: Can language change lives? Karina, Pearl, and Anthony are precariously balanced on the edge. Inspired by three teachers in a radical poetry workshop, can they write their own life stories, imagining a future where fathers aren’t in jail, mothers aren’t abusive and college is a place where you awake every morning instead of just dreaming about it every night? A dedicated filmmaking team follows their lives, celebrating the value of poetry, devoted teachers, and the power that comes from writing your own life story.

A year in the life of CEO, NAACP ambassador, Duke University professor, husband, father, son and Grammy Award winning producer 9th Wonder. The film follows one of soul music’s most dynamic figures from his childhood home to late nights in the studio and everywhere in between. Featuring: Drake, DJ Premier, DJ Green Lantern, J. Cole, Murs, Phonte, Sha Money XL, Young Guru, The Alchemist & more. Director’s Bio Kenneth Price is an Emmy Award winning filmmaker and graduate student at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Directors’ Bios

He began his career as an editor and colorist

We are an unusual group

working on such films as Cocaine Angel

of four directors/producers

(SXSW 2006) and Deconfliction (Tribeca 2008).

who have collaborated on this film for 6 years together and

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still really like each other.

Director’s Bio

The Wonder Year

Our experience covers a big

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Named “One of the top 25 new faces of

range — Deborah Shaffer has

Independent Film” by Filmmaker magazine

made many documentaries

(2009), Morgan Jon Fox is a Memphis-based

over the years, including

filmmaker/producer who has directed four

Witness to War, which won

feature films which have screened at over

an Oscar® for Best Short in

50 film festivals world wide, and have been

1985. Roland’s previous feature

honored with over 15 best of fest awards.

doc is Azul, about poetry in

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Nicaragua, and for Amy and

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documentary.

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@tobehearddoc

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Congratulations Filmakers on another brilliant year

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Making a special appearance at the Indie Memphis rooftop party! Saturday, November 5th @ 11:00 Pm

Dorothy Kirsch proudly supports Indie Memphis.

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Short Films

The Ninth Floor

5 Minutes Each

Crazy Beats Strong Every Time

Short Films #1: Life Friday, Nov. 4 @ 6:45 pm • Studio on the Square • 112 minutes

Life

5 Minutes Each

Be Still

directed by Nancy Rodwan • 3 min.

directed by Vojin Vasovic • 10 min.

directed by Mark Allen Wilson • 13 min.

Life craftily juxtaposes Edith Wharton’s poetic musings on how to best use our time with an array of fantastical images and an improvisational score.

A metaphorical story about the constant struggle of the artist to reach those five minutes of limelight.

A 15-year old Chinese-Canadian leads an alienated life in the dark, gritty underbelly of Toronto’s Chinatown. When he neglects his responsibilities to his father on a fateful night, he triggers a chain of events that send him into the crushing world of manhood.

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It’s Natural to Be Afraid directed by Justin Doherty • 10 min.

Challenged to regain his life following a period of deep mourning, Sam steps back into the world at exactly the same time Mya arrives in town from Israel. Their lives seem destined to just miss each other until a young man, unsure of his own place in the world, intervenes. My Rating

The Ninth Floor directed by Jordan Berger • 23 min.

A despondent young man experiences reoccurring dreams about an imaginary lover in the midst of WWII. When his dreams and reality become intertwined, he is faced with the decision of leaving the meaningless world he has always known for a chance to save the only girl he has ever loved. My Rating

Mercury in Tuna

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directed by Kristen Lauth Shaeffer • 10 min.

Avery Sutton lives a life that is governed by her fears. When a stranger asks for help, she ignores him, but begins to question her choices. My Rating

Cat’s Cradle directed by Ray Rea • 4 min.

Cat’s Cradle combines xerox animation and analog rotoscope techniques with digital effects. Two generations of animation technique collide in this raw film/video. Original soundtrack by Helena Thompson of Purest Spiritual Pigs. My Rating

Broken Cycle directed by Clifton Archuleta • 12 min.

Ahmad is tormented daily by a group of his peers. After an encounter with the bullies that destroys his prized bicycle, he turns to an older group of neighborhood thugs in search of safety and acceptance. As Ahmad earns his place among the group, he must decide if the protection they offer is worth the cost of his humanity. My Rating

Crazy Beats Strong Every Time directed by Moon Molson • 27 min.

An African-American twenty-something finds his Nigerian-immigrant stepfather passed out drunk in their project-building hallway and is pressured by a friend into murdering him. My Rating

2011

Indie Memphis

Short Films

Confessions of a Pedalphile

Fresh Skweezed

Table Six

Short Films #2: Hometowner Friday, Nov. 4 @ 9:30 pm • Playhouse on the Square • 119 minutes

Merde

Fresh Skweezed

Moth to a Flame

directed by Adam Remsen • 10 min.

directed by Ryan Parker, G.B. Shannon • 22 min.

directed by Ben Siler • 3 min.

A dancer finds redemption through art. My Rating

Confessions of a Pedalphile

A street smart 11-year-old is stifled by a shaky home-life and constant torment from the neighborhood bully. Her life’s turned sour and she has no choice but to make a stand.

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John Gray

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directed by Valibus • 6 min.

Merv has a dark secret, something he battles with every day . . .

An experimental music video in the style of 80’s public access aerobics shows, with real VHS. Featuring the music of Belgian musician Ssaliva, who only releases his songs on cassette tapes.

Am I directed by Chad Barton, Eric Tate • 10 min.

Aaron of Midtown directed by Eric Huber • 15 min.

A young man tries to determine if he is the last man on Earth.

A day in the life of Aaron, who lives in Midtown. He’s got a lot on his plate . . . Lucky for him, he’s surrounded by some friends who help keep things interesting.

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directed by Dan Baker, Chris Pollack • 8 min.

John Gray writes his almanac of Life, Love and the Tending of Oats while his steam-powered world spirals out of control.

Solitary Metz

Table Six

directed by Shelby Baldock, Chad Barton • 12 min.

directed by Bryan Artiles • 29 min.

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A liquor store Santa searches for true love. My Rating

New Moon in the Morning directed by Ben Siler • 4 min.

A sad man works a sad job, then leaves it. Featuring the music of Memphian K. Dohan’s band, Bearcubes. My Rating

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A waitress in a smoky back alley bar is about to be thrown out of her apartment and is desperate for cash. As the night wears on she faces greater dangers as various patrons scheme against each other, and her. My Rating

Short Films

My Big Red Purse

Irma

Blind Mississippi Morris

Short Films #3: Documentaries Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 1:30 pm • Studio on the Square • 79 minutes

My Big Red Purse

Irma

Fanning the Fire

directed by Giancarlo Iannotta • 4 min.

directed by Charles Fairbanks • 12 min.

directed by David Seay • 20 min.

A short story about the filmmaker’s mother reminiscing over her prized childhood possession: a big red purse in the shape of a triangle.

Irma is an intimate musical portrait of Irma Gonzalez, the former world champion of women’s professional wrestling. Featuring music written and performed by Ms. Gonzalez, Irma’s story surges with love and deceit, masculine strength, feminine charms, and an extraordinary sense of humor.

Fanning The Fire is a vibrant documentary short that features a young Texas teen who followed his dreams from being a fan of bluegrass music all the way to opening for some of the greatest entertainers in the business — in less than three years.

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Kudzu Vine

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directed by Josh Gibson • 20 min.

Through images of kudzu-covered forms, this ode to the climbing, trailing, and coiling species Pueraria lobata evokes the agricultural history and mythic textures of the South, while paying tribute to the human capacity for improvisation. My Rating

Lemon directed by Anand Modi • 10 min.

Somewhere in small-town Texas, two engineers try to turn a 25-year old Volvo in the the fastest car $500 can buy. My Rating

Grounded by Reality directed by Elizabeth Strickler, Phoebe Brown • 8 min.

Jessica Blinkhorn is an artist with Spinal Muscular Atrophy who lives large, rolls hard and won’t let her declining mobility stop her. Grounded By Reality gives a glimpse into Jessica’s everyday struggles and her fierce determination to be seen as a whole and vital person through her art making.

Blind Mississippi Morris directed by Bill Totolo • 5 min.

Blind Mississippi Morris is a delta blues musician who plays a virtuoso harmonica and performs on Memphis’s legendary Beale Street. My Rating

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Short Films

Pillow

The Thaumaturge

Murderbilia

Short Films #4: Dark & Stormy Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 9:30 pm • Studio on the Square • 120 minutes

Tell-Tale

Seven Souls

The Thaumaturge

directed by Greg Williams • 9 min.

directed by Gerry Bruno • 16 min.

directed by Bevan Bell • 17 min.

An ice-cold femme fatale and her apparently naive husband deny the crime they’re accused of; the murder of a police informant. Stars Adam Arkin in a script by Sebastian Gutierrez (Indie Memphis 2009’s Women in Trouble).

An unconventional love story that follows Death as he roams the earth, repaying the debt every human being owes the world in order to help seven souls cross over before he himself can rest.

John has been given a card granting him ‘one wish’. Seeking to right a wrong, he travels to a bizarre realm to visit The Thaumaturge, an unpredictable supernatural being of mystical power.

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Murderbilia

directed by Michael Williams • 4 min.

directed by David Matthews • 30 min.

A reclusive drifter allows a sympathetic friend to help him fight an unusual problem that prevents him from ever living a normal life.

A grim, atmospheric film that plunges into the seedy underbelly of a profoundly macabre market — the buying and selling of murder-related collectibles. The film follows a compulsive collector as he tracks down a specific artifact that was involved in the brutal murder of a young woman.

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Pillow directed by Joshua H. Miller, Miles B. Miller • 18 min.

A Southern Gothic tale of two brothers who go to desperate measures to please their overbearing mother.

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Ballerina directed by Bryan Stafford • 17 min.

Frank Gross seems to be a man who has it all: a quiet home in the suburbs, a good job, a daughter that loves him. Then, on a day much like today, a man comes to his door. My Rating

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Short Films

Short Films #5: Student Work Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 12:00 pm • Playhouse on the Square • 64 minutes

Interview with Paul Eade

The Birds Upstairs

Survival of the Sweetest

directed by Patrick Churvis • 3 min.

directed by Christopher Jarvis • 9 min. NYU, Tisch School of the Arts

directed by Michael Shaw • 3 min.

Frustrated attempts to bear children overwhelm the lives of an aristocratic, avian couple in the early nineteenth century.

Delight becomes horror when hungry humans crash a party thrown by living candy.

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Interview with the Memphis painter, Paul Eade. My Rating

Memphis College of Art

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Bob

directed by Mary Hahn • 5 min.

directed by Harry Fast, Jacob Frey • 3 min.

Rhodes College

A true story about memory.

Filmakademie BadenWuerttemberg, Germany

Of Love and Sea Monsters directed by Tiffany Baker, Jessie Kotis, Robbie Siskin • 4 min. Memphis College of Art

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Who says a hamster can’t travel the world chasing down his lady-love? Uhm, Bob.

A young woman and her lover are parted when he must ship out to sea.

Horn Island

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Maxed Out

directed by Jessica Biggs • 2 min.

directed by Andrew Lebowitz • 4 min.

directed by Eric Huber • 10 min. University of Memphis

2010 marked the 26th year that a group from Memphis College of Art ventured down to Horn Island for a little over a week’s stay. Upon their return to Memphis, the Islanders spend the summer working in their studios preparing for the Horn Island Exhibit, which happens every September after the trip.

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An unenthusiastic mime vaguely attempts to perform his act and makes a sorry attempt to escape the frame of the films. My Rating

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Peaceful Afternoon

Without Wings

directed by Nicolas Pflug • 2 min.

directed by Jo Meuris • 4 min.

Memphis College of Art

UCLA

Without Wings is a celebration of the human body in motion. The movements of dancers, traceurs, and acrobats are woven together in a symphony of animated figures that rejoices in the ability to defy gravity.

An absurd comedy collage involving amphibian royalty, guitar-playing cats, turtles with jet-packs, and a guy with a unicycle.

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An idealized day in the life of the American consumer. 2011 Indie Memphis Student Shorts, winner, Best in Class — Higher Education

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Roboy directed by Travis Thomas • 5 min. Memphis College of Art

A man uses robotics to recreate the son he lost. My Rating

San Diego directed by Whitney Howard, Jesse Hearn, Nathan Ball, Ben Cummings • 4 min. University of Memphis

Estoban finally catches up with his archenemy. 2011 Indie Memphis Student Shorts, winner, Audience Choice — Higher Education

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The Notorious Jesse James directed by Eric Huber • 6 min. University of Memphis

The Notorious Jesse James introduces us to the gang returning to their hideout after a successful heist. Not initially agreeing on how to split the loot, Jesse suggests a winner take all hand of poker. 2011 Indie Memphis Student Shorts, winner, Best in Show

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Short Films

Terrebonne

The Last Visit

Short Films #6: Southern Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 2:45 pm • Studio on the Square • 93 minutes

Terrebonne

The Strange Ones

directed by Jeremy Craig • 15 min.

directed by Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radclifff • 15 min.

Set on the imperiled coast of Louisiana, Terrebonne is the meditative story of a brother and sister who encounter unexpected trouble when they venture deep into the swamp in search of the mythic ivory-billed woodpecker.

A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is quite what it seems to be.

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Archer

Little Horses

directed by Erik Mauck • 15 min.

directed by Levi Abrino • 18 min.

The story of a man who can’t let go of his wife. He visits her grave every day to read passages from her favorite book. On this particular day, his visit runs long, and the groundskeeper is forced to ask him to leave.

Dave, a divorced small town postal worker, tries to win his family back by getting his son a pony for his 8th birthday. My Rating

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Shudder House The Last Visit directed by Nasar Abich Jr. • 15 min.

Raised by his once-famous architect father, a recluse returns home to pay the dementia-riddled old man one last visit. My Rating

directed by Joey Russo • 15 min.

On a rural estate in 1951, a boy trudges through a meaningless childhood. When a Southern farmhand returns to the farm with a guitar in hand, he faces his only opportunity to grow and feel beyond his boyish blues. My Rating

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Shudder House

Short Films

Disillusioned

Gayby

Sexting

Short Films #7: Funny Ha Ha Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 5:15 pm • Studio on the Square • 90 minutes

Recess

Gayby

The Orderly

directed by Bradley Montesi • 1 min.

directed by Jonathan Lisecki • 12 min.

directed by Daniel Campbell • 11 min.

Recess tells the story of the understood politics of the recess playground. My Rating

Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their 30s. In an effort to ‘reconnect,’ they decide to have a baby together — even though Matt is gay and Jenn is straight. Warning: this film contains an incredibly awkward sex scene.

Disillusioned

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The Orderly is a comedy set in the early 1950s about a timid orderly that finds himself late for his first day of work and his first assignment: transporting two psychiatric patients to another facility eight hours away, with only six hours to get them there. My Rating

directed by Kim Risi • 7 min.

Daniel is a young magician who is obsessed with flashy tricks. There’s only one problem: he sucks at them.

Sexting directed by Neil LaBute • 8 min.

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Fed up with her relationship with a married man, a young woman decides to meet his wife for coffee.

Ms. Marvel’s Day Off

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directed by Ruckus Skye • 8 min.

What does a super hero do when they’re not working? My Rating

Moon Pie directed by John Alden Patton • 9 min.

Memphis actor Jeff Pope stars as a man who rumbles through his cluttered doublewide searching for a missing moon pie, the consumption of which is the centerpiece of his morning ritual. Along the way he encounters all six residing family members, interrogating them whether they like it or not.

The Rooster directed by Eli Gonda • 20 min.

The end of a relationship sucks. Inevitably, one person is left feeling bereft, suddenly transformed into a mopey fun-sucking blob. They’ve lost their ‘better half’. They’ve lost their confidence. They’ve lost hope. And they’ve lost . . . their rooster. From the writer of Recount comes a story that explores what we actually lose when a relationship ends and how far one man will go to recover his coc-, er, rooster. Starring Danny Masterson and writer Danny Strong. My Rating

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Short Films

Love, Lots of It

Two-Legged Rat Bastards

Silent Movie

Short Films Screening With Features Bathing and the Single Girl

Come on Down and Pick Me Up

Silent Movie

directed by Christine Elise McCarthy • 11 min.

directed by Jonathan Bougher, Nicholas Corrao • 9 min.

Single, in her thirties and experiencing an extended romantic drought, this lady decides she needs to broaden her ideas of who might make a suitable boyfriend.

A portrait of Fred Kress, a forty-six-yearold man within weeks of dying from terminal liver disease. After receiving the diagnosis, Fred turned his room into a DayGlo hallucination, covering the walls and ceiling with fluorescent alien masks, mannequin heads, and skulls.

Mackie and Meredith shop at a vintage clothing store for a silent film Mackie intends to make, bickering about the past as they make their selections.

Screens with How to Cheat (page 41). My Rating

Be Still directed by Karrie Crouse • 18 min.

Seeking redemption for past misdeeds, a loner and petty criminal reaches out to his estranged young son during a trek to the local carnival. Screens with A Little Closer (page 42). My Rating

Screens with Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis (page 45). My Rating

Home Game

directed by Brian Pera • 15 min.

Screens with Woman’s Picture (page 43). My Rating

Surprise directed by Chad Hartigan • 9 min.

Don and Dixie confront their relationship issues at the beach. Screens with Prairie Love (page 42) My Rating

directed by Suzannah Herbert • 37 min.

A documentary about a New York City soccer team of homeless men. The film follows the lives of two individuals on and off the field as they struggle out of homelessness and try to find a job and move out of the shelter. Screens with Stepping: Beyond the Line (page 46). My Rating

Love, Lots of It

Two-Legged Rat Bastards directed by Scott Weintrob • 15 min.

Set on a park bench in the present day, a cantankerous old alcoholic attempts to connect with his son, who’s spent the majority of his adult life trying to get away from him. Based on the short story by Big Fish author Daniel Wallace. Screens with Losers Take All (page 27). My Rating

directed by Rob Feld • 14 min.

A woman arrives on a barren highway where a mysterious man waits, as he always has. He has things to offer, and she has things to trade. Which to choose? Screens with Lord Byron (page 42). My Rating 2011

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I M : A R T S PAC E

Art at Indie Memphis Opening Reception Thursday, Nov. 3 @ 6:00–9:00 pm

Closing Reception Sunday, Nov. 7 @ 7:15–8:15 pm with live performance by mancontrol

Now in it’s second year, the IM: Artspace showcases fine art film and video installation, highlighting works from regional institutions of higher learning in the arts. This years IM:Artspace is sponsored by the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) Art Department and The University of Memphis College of Communication & Fine Arts. IM: Artspace is located on the second floor at Playhouse on the Square, open during festival hours.

And So On . . . by Coriana Close

Located in the Event Room on the second floor of Playhouse on the Square, works play continuously during the festival weekend. Festival-goers may drop in at any time during the festival to enjoy the installations, browse the artist books, comment in the guest log, or pick up a booklet with artist information and a map of the arts included in this years Indie Memphis festival. Big thanks to our sponsors, The University of Mississippi and The University of Memphis, and to our volunteer gallery manager and artist Adam Farmer!

Thank You for Your Patience & Slices of Clarity

Sponsored by The University of Memphis Art Department

by Brooke White

By combining, weaving, and layering appropriated footage, Coriana Close has created a distinct visual style. And So On . . . showcases three video pieces entitled: 39 Venus, Horizons, and Oriana. The non narrative shorts touch on themes such as: human display, historical repetition, and our societal legacy. Coriana Close is a recent immigrant to the region. She lives in Midtown and works as a photography professor at the University of Memphis.

Sponsored by The University of Mississippi Art Department

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Thank you for your patience and Slices of Clarity, two bodies of work comprised of photographs, videos, and archival super 8mm film footage, that investigate the relationship between memory, landscape, and place through the lens of Alzheimer’s Disease. Personal experiences and research have shown me the ways in which Alzheimer’s disease alters one’s memory. Through these experiences I have seen that what remains intact in the brain are memories connected to the landscape, while everything else appears to be unraveling. The changing leaves in fall, the first snowfall, a heavy rain — these are the things that remain intact. I am interested in the universal connection we all have with the landscape and how it in turn influences our sense of place and ultimately who we are. In Thank you for your patience and Slices of Clarity I create confusing visual spaces coupled with holes of tangible ones, to bring the viewer into an Alzheimer’s view of the world.

INDIE MEMPHIS ARTS

New to this year’s festival: Indie Memphis Arts, a vast integration of arts installations connecting the festival venues. From intricate chalk drawings to interactive performances, Indie Memphis Arts features temporary works from nearly a dozen local artists. These works are located throughout and between the festival venues, providing a visual connection through the spaces where the films are screened. Designed and curated by IM:Artspace alum Natalie Hoffmann, Indie Memphis Arts seeks to connect the arts and arts community to the Indie Memphis festival experience. Also new to this year’s festival — experimental projection installations and a sound performance will re-imagine and light up Overton Square at Cooper and Madison. Thank you Loeb Properties! The opening reception (Thursday, Nov. 3 from 6 – 9 pm, includes sound performance and projections, after which projections will then run nightly Friday, Nov. 4 – Sunday, Nov. 6 from 7–10 pm.

Featured Artists Becca Hand • Paul Woodard • Penny Recker • Louis Giberson Sophia Mason • Madhuri Prasad • Laurana Wong Leni Stoeva • Nathan Murphy • Michael Peery Carly Greenwell • Natalie Hoffmann • Adam Farmer

Playhouse On The Square Playhouse On The Square: 2nd Floor Festival Cafe

Featured Artists on Opening Night: Laurana Wong, Carly Greenwell, Natalie Hoffmann and Michael Peery.

Studio On The Square

The closing reception on Sunday, Nov. 6 from 7:15– 8:15 pm will feature a live sound & light performance by mancontrol.

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P a n e l s + C o n ve r s t i o n s

Panelists

Mike S. Ryan

is an Independent Spirit “Producer of the Year Award” Nominee and one of Variety’s 2007 “10 Producers to Watch.” His films have garnered nominations and prizes from the Academy Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards and many more. Junebug, starring Amy Adams, made its international premiere at Cannes in 2005 and went on to be one of the lowest-budgeted feature films ever nominated for an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress, 2005.) His credits include Todd Solondz’s Palindromes and Life During Wartime; Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy (winner, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2006) and her recent Meek’s Cutoff, starring Michelle Williams; Ira Sach’s Forty Shades Of Blue (winner, Sundance Film Festival, 2006); Hal Hartley’s Fay Grim, starring Parker Posey and Jeff Goldblum; Lake City, starring Sissy Spacek; Ilya Chaiken’s Liberty Kid (Winner of HBO’s Latino Film Festival in 2007) and Losers Take All (page 27). He just wrapped Between Us starring Julia Stiles and Taye Diggs and The Comedy, a drama starring comedian Tim Heidecker and featuring Eric Wareheim, both currently in post-production. Mike is a New York City native and NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate.

Ira Deutchman

has been making, marketing and distributing films since 1975, having worked on over 150 films including some of the most successful independent films of all time. He was one of the founders of Cinecom and later created Fine Line Features — two companies that were created from scratch and in their respective times, helped define the independent film business. Currently Deutchman is Managing Partner of Emerging Pictures, a New York-based digital exhibition company. He is also a Professor of Professional Practice in the Graduate Film Division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, where he is the Chair of the Film Program.

Among the over 60 films Ira acquired and released at Fine Line were Gus van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho, Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth, Robert Altman’s The Player and Short Cuts, Roman Polanski’s Bitter Moon and Death and the Maiden, Alan Rudolph’s Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Mike Leigh’s Naked, and the award-winning Hoop Dreams, until recently the highest grossing non-music documentary in history. Previously, he was one of the founding partners and President of Marketing and Distribution for Cinecom Entertainment Group, the film distribution company known for such diverse releases as Merchant/Ivory’s A Room with a View, Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense, and John Sayles’ The Brother From Another Planet. Ira is a graduate of Northwestern University, with a major in film.

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P a n e l s + C o n ve r s a t i o n s

Panels + Conversations Festival Café @ Playhouse on the Square

SATURDAY “Nothing to See Here” Podcast

SUNDAY SAG Indie: The Workshop

Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 10:30 am

Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 12 pm

Grab a donut and enjoy this live recording of Live from Memphis’ Nothing to See Here podcast, hosted by Kirk Rawlings and Memphis filmmaker C. Scott McCoy, as they chat with some special guests. For past episodes, visit livefrommemphis.com/nothing

Interested in shooting your next indie feature with SAG talent? SAG Indie’s Eliza Hajek (p. 19) will explain SAG low budget contracts, answer your questions, and tell a few jokes in this onehour workshop.

Screenwriting Panel Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 12:45 pm

Women Make Movies

The Commercial Appeal’s John Beifuss leads this conversation with screenwriters Craig Brewer (p. 21) (Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan, Footloose) and Daniel Waters (p. 25) (Heathers, Hudson Hawk, Batman Returns), where scriptwriting secrets will be unveiled!

Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 1:30 pm

Memphis filmmaker Laura Jean Hocking hosts this conversation with Christine Elise McCarthy (p. 17) (Bathing and the Single Girl, NBC’s ER), Amber Sealey (p. 41) (How to Cheat), and Tanya Wright (p. 40) (Butterfly Rising, HBO’s True Blood), all screening their latest at this year’s festival.

Music in Film Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 2:30 pm

Director Alex Steyermark (p. 27) (Losers Take All) brings to his own filmmaking a wealth of previous experience as a leading music supervisor and music producer. Jon Hornyak of the Memphis Chapter of the Recording Academy leads this Sponsored by: conversation with Alex on the subject of music and film in the indie film world, which will attempt to demystify the art and business of using music in movies, and discuss how to find the right sound for your next independent film.

Future of Indie Film Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 4:15 pm

Brian Newman (p. 15), former CEO of the Tribeca Film Institute and founder of sub-genre media, leads this conversation with Emerging Pictures’ Ira Deutchman and producer Mike Ryan (Losers Take All) about the future of independent film.

Documentary Filmmaking Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 3 pm

A conversation about documentary filmmaking with Bruce Sinofsky (p. 29) (Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Good Rockin’ Tonight: The Legacy Of Sun Records) and It Came From Memphis author and filmmaker Robert Gordon (Johnny Cash’s America, Respect Yourself: The Stax Record Story).

Conversation with Chris Parnell Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 4:30 pm

Memphis native and Germantown High School graduate Chris Parnell (p. 19) talks with the Memphis Flyer’s Chris Davis about his past, present and future, including his time at The Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles and eight year stint as a cast member on Saturday Night Live.

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Southern Teen Filmmaking Showcase Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 10:45 am • Playhouse on the Square Curated by Nicki Newburger

Opera Memphis 2011 Music Videos

Made in Memphis

The following music videos were developed through Opera Memphis’ Songwriting Program and were funded by Arts Memphis through the ACT (Arts for Children and Teachers) Program. The Opera Memphis program is overseen by Director of Education and Outreach, Sarah Squire. Teaching Artists include songwriting instructors, Chuck Parr and Shelby Johnson, and video instructors, Ally Adcock, Brad Ellis, and Sean Faust.

Nothing Less Than An Enemy Overton High School

A music video about how people can lose trust and how that affects our outlook on the world around us. Winner, “Best In Class - High School,” 2011 Indie Memphis Student Shorts

Diamond’s Shine KIPP DIAMOND Academy

Strive for excellence! The project was inspired by the school’s slogans, or “KIPPisms” which include the following: Work hard, be nice, there are no shortcuts, there are no excuses and all of us will learn.

23:59 Written and Directed by Katie Quiroz Produced and Edited with brother Kevin Quiroz

Untitled

A group of terrorists from the country of Hamburgistan want a “bubble bomb” to destroy their enemy, Frankfurtistan. To acquire one, they try to blackmail the President of the United States by threatening to release “giggle gas” in populated areas of the U.S. until the President agrees to give them what they ask for. Since Frankfurtistan and the U.S. are allies, the president refuses to comply and asks for the FBI to find the terrorists before it’s too late.

Jenna-Lee Geranios, ST AGNES Academy

Followed by a brief Behind-the-Scenes

This stop-motion short reveals global issues in the context of a teen magazine. Winner, “Audience Choice - High School,” 2011 Indie Memphis Student Shorts

peek at how the film was made.

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S o u t h e r n Te e n F i l m m a k i n g S h o w c a s e

From the other side of the bridge Bird Droppings The birds are falling! The birds are falling! Cast Emma Bevill, Brandon Bryant, Casey Hubbard, Sandi Hubbard, Caroline Stone, Carter Stone, Jeannie Stone, Graceleigh Wright, Sawyer Wright, Susan Wright Crew Lucy Hubbard, Payton Hubbard, Kate Moses

Movie Mania Some folks will go to any lengths to see the latest blockbuster — and some don’t have to. Filmmakers: Clayton Bernard, Zeke Kipfer, Kyle Rutherford, Caroline Stone,

Taste of the “T” The Ozark Foothills Film Festival, a rural film festival which celebrated its 10th anniversary in March 2011, takes place in north central Arkansas. Seven years ago, the FilmFest created a youth division, which is named “TTauri,” the astronomer’s term for a new star. TTauri is one a very small number of youth media production and exhibition programs taking place in rural America. The annual TTauri Film Festival and Movie Camp combines a national youth video competition, public showcase screenings of youth-produced videos, and a two-week nonresidential “Movie Camp” offering a variety of video production workshops. For more information, visit ttauri.org.

Miranda Tate. Graceleigh Wright / Instructor: Juli Jackson / Teaching Assistant: Dylan Scarbrough

Humanimation A claymation Public Service Announcement for the Humane Society, created in a 2-day workshop at the T Tauri Movie Camp. Animators Kris Bailey, Clatyon Bernard, Ashley Lamkin, Graham Ross, Zoe Taulli, Nathan Wright Instructor: Juli Jackson / Teaching Assistant: Dylan Scarbrough

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Musical Acts A Partial List

Black Rock Revival

Glorie

Michaela Caitlin

blackrockrevival.com blackrockrevival@gmail.com

glorierock.com glorierock@yahoo.com

soundcloud.com/michaelacaitlin michaelacaitlin@sleepyowlrecords.com

The band started as a desire to create more substantive, engaging instrumental music with a strong focus on melody. Their music blends acoustic, electric, and electronic sounds and draws inspiration from many genres including rock and instrumental hip-hop.

With a voice of a siren, Michaela sings listeners into a delicate world of tragedy and beauty. Her contrasting scenes of love and fury set her apart from the stereotypical singer/songwriters that frequent the numerous bars and coffee shops she does.

Jeremy Shrader

Side Street Steppers

jeremyshradermusic.com jeremy@jeremyshradermusic.com

sidestreetsteppers.com

“The music of Black Rock Revival is hard, funky, and loose. They have a ghetto soul that pours out of the speakers that can only be described as Rock Soul. There is no one out there like them. Believe that!”

Bluff City Backsliders yellowdogrecords.com/bcb/index.html michael@southerngrowthstudio.com

“Good things take a while to ripen. The Backsliders have only played a decade, please be patient with us. This much joy is hard to withstand. Memphis-based Bluff City Backsliders delivers high-powered, hip-shaking, barrelhouse hoodoo music that’s as profane as it is glorious.”

To say that Jeremy Shrader loves good music would be an extreme understatement. The love comes through in the notes he plays on trumpet, his singing of classic songs, and in the many bands that he leads which include the New Memphis Hepcats, the Hot Memphis Five, and the Jeremy Shrader Octet.

The Sultana

Davy Ray Bennett davyray72@yahoo.com

“I’m someone who has big dreams. I’ve had them since I was a kid. Somewhere along the way I have lost the will to chase them as hard as I once did. I guess I’m constantly struggling to make the dreams I had as a child become reality.”

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“We give you blues, jazz, country, hokum, jug band, fiddle tunes and more. This is the music of America, of all the people who have come and gone and contributed a verse to our national song."

Michael Joyner myspace.com/additivefree memphismiko@gmail.com

Michael has been on the Memphis scene for the last few years trying to perfect his sound while helping other musicians record and promote their own music. Having performed and collaborated with various Memphis bands in the past, he is currently working on his second album and performing around the mid-south.

thesultana.bandcamp.com jhart@pangeastudios.org

The Sultana is a Folk Indie Rock band from Memphis that mixes cello and banjo with traditional rock instruments. Named for the worst maritime disaster in the history of the United States, the band has an affinity for early American history and folklore, as well as themes inspired by Western cinema and Film Noir.

Festival Music

Festival Music Lineup Thursday, November 3

Alex Warble

Davy Ray Bennett

Instrumental

Reception

Studio Lobby • 8:15–9:15 pm

Playhouse Lobby • 5:30–6:30 pm

Sean Murphy Instrumental Studio Lobby • 8:45–9:45 pm

Neosoulsville Phillip Roebuck

After Party

Performing before Undefeated

Festival Cafe • 8:30–10:00 pm

Playhouse Theatre • 6:15–6:45 pm

Subteens After Party P&H Cafe • 11:00–until

Perfect Vessels

Black Rock Revival Teflon Don

SUNday, November 6

After Party

Rooftop Night-Cap

Festival Cafe • 8:00–10:00 pm

Side Street Steppers

Playhouse Rooftop • 11:00–until

Instrumental Studio Lobby • 2:15–3:15 pm

Davy Ray Bennett

Saturday, November 5

Instrumental

James Vachon

Studio Lobby • 8:15–9:15 pm

Instrumental

Roy Brewer Instrumental

Studio Lobby • 3:45–4:45 pm

Studio Lobby • 4:30–5:30 pm

Rooftop Night-Cap

Don Black & Chris Owen

Playhouse Rooftop • 11:00–until

Reception

-The

Bluff City Backsliders Sultana

Performing before Paradise Lost 3

Festival Cafe • 5:30–7:15 pm

Playhouse Theatre • 4:45–5:15 pm

Sin City Scoundrels

mancontrol

Friday, November 4 10 O’Clock Reception

Instrumental

Festival Cafe • 5:30–7:00 pm

Studio Lobby • 6:15–7:15 pm

Arts Space • 7:30–8:30 pm

Jeremy Shrader

Secret People

McGhee and Me

Reception

Instrumental

Performing before Losers Take All

Studio Lobby • 6:00–7:00 pm

Playhouse Theatre • 6:45–7:15 pm

Festival Cafe • 7:30–8:30 pm

Glorie

Memphis Sounds with Nancy Apple

The Sultana

Showcase

Playhouse Theatre • 8:30–9:00 pm

Performing before This is What Love in Action Looks Like Playhouse Theatre • 6:45–7:15 pm

Festival Cafe • 7:00–8:30 pm

Michael Joyner

Women of Rock

Showcase

After Party

Festival Cafe • 7:00–8:30 pm

Festival Cafe • 8:30–10:00 pm

Reception

Awards Show

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Thanks to the Hohenberg Foundation for their support.

Kids’ Film

Kid’s Film

Eleanor’s Secret Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 11:30 am Studio on the Square • 80 min. directed by Dominique Monféry

From Academy Award nominated director Dominique Monféry comes a sumptuously animated movie about a magic library where all the characters from classic children’s books come alive. Nat has fond memories of his eccentric Aunt Eleanor reading to him from her enormous collection of storybooks but is frustrated by his inability to read the books himself. So he is less than thrilled when he learns that his aunt has left him the keys to her attic library as a gift. However, just as Nat’s parents are selling the collection to a shady antiques dealer, Nat discovers that the library is magical — the books are all original first editions of history’s most popular fairy tales, and the famous characters come to life! Now with the help of Alice in Wonderland, the Ogre, Peter Pan and others, he must find a way to get back the books and learn to read an ancient spell to keep the characters alive for future generations of children. Eleanor’s Secret is a beautifully designed, rollicking adventure in which a boy’s new found ability to read not only sets his imagination free, but saves the day! The film features characters from classics storybooks Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Jungle Book, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in Boots, Tom Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, and more!

Only $5 per ticket, for both kids and adults!

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Faces of the Fest

The crew of the Indie Memphis Film Festival is made up by more than 100 enthusiastic volunteers. We can’t introduce you to everyone, but here are a few of the faces you’ll be seeing on the set, and a bit about their roles. Savannah Bearden

Savannah loves anything involving stages and microphones, so naturally she is producing the Indie Memphis awards show. She will also be talking into various microphones at various screenings before various features. She likes to be referred to as Director of Microphone Initiatives.

Shea Colburn

Shea Colburn runs Playhouse. When it involves people, placement, or the actual doing of a thing, he’s on it. Works closely with Jon Burchfield and the rest of the POTS crew to make everybody peachy and happy. Any other day he’s the guy making Urban Outfitters look cool from the inside out BUT he’s also got a passion for “watching” movies so the gig fits right in... dig it!

Katie Benjamin

In elementary school, Katie opted to skip recess so she could stay in and help teachers with bulletin board decor. It was a multitude of equally geeky choices that eventually led her to Memphis, where she now works as a graphic designer at Combustion and helps with cool projects like laying out the program you’re holding now.

Christopher Bratton

This balloon-twisting, sword-fencing, handyman from Forrest City has exhibited his inflated latex installations at the Dixon and épée swordsmanship at the Brooks. This year Chris yields his mad skills as the Indie Memphis Festival Café Manager.

Jon has been a long time advocate for Memphis and an avid supporter of Memphis’ rich cultural history in music and arts. He has been actively involved with Indie Memphis for the past 3 years and is taking on a larger role of operations supervisor this year. Jon commits 100% to his passions and likewise to Indie Memphis.

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Joanna Kelly

Amanda Edmundson

Les Edwards

Brett Magdovitz lives vicariously through dead people, via their old clothes. Often times, he likes to dance. Other times, he enjoys bowling…and the occasional game of Bocce. For Indie Memphis, Brett will be wrangling visiting filmmakers and jurors into their proper corrals.

I work at the Chamber doing anything and everything it takes to help businesses grow & succeed. I’m responsible for making sure official vote tallies are accurate. I’ll be the short girl yelling “one ballot per person!!” and stressing about chads during the festival.

Les Edwards loves movies. He supports this habit by doing financial consulting work for small businesses, mostly in the medical device industry. Les is a CPA, a volunteer for arts organizations, and lifelong Memphian.

Lauren Rae Holtermann

When Lauren Rae isn’t designing stuff at Combustion, organizing events with Rozelle Artists Guild, or doodling in her studio, she’s managing the Studio on the Square during her fourth year with the festival.

Erik Jambor

Jon Burchfield

Aaron is a (mostly) retired architect turned midtown handyman, writer wannabe, and volunteeraholic. He is currently restoring two family houses in Cooper Young with the dream of converting them into a refuge for wayward artists and musicians. This is Aaron’s 4th year with IMFF and 2nd as music wrangler.

When I’m not helping keep the Greater Memphis Chamber organized (they don’t let me out much), I’m coordinating the volunteer schedules and harassing Erik on a daily basis.

Teresa Maria Bell

When she’s not doing research, touring Europe or teaching yoga, Teresa is planning, preparing and sorting merch, or training vols to man the tables! Indie Memphis’ own self-titled merchandise gal.

Aaron James

In his fourth year with Indie Memphis, Jambor is wellreputed for his professionalism and for throwing a downright fun festival. With an emphasis on making connections, Jambor is an industry matchmaker as well as a stylized festival programmer delivering a thoughtful and balanced assortment of films tailored for Memphis.

Brett Magdovitz

Christina Meek

By day, I have a busy job at the Greater Memphis Chamber, by night I’m a super hero/volunteer for the Indie Memphis Film Festival. I’m helping out with media and PR as well as social media. If you see someone wearing a chartreuse cape and fighting crime, please come help! (I’m new).

Robin Salant

Festival team-building and support, this artist/builder/ nomad has been with the festival for years, crack-filling, shooting, or wrangling a team of fine photographers. Be sweet to them, they want to make you look good.

Brighid Wheeler

Snap! and she’ll get’r’done! Brighid is a veteran film festival enthusiast with years of experience handling VIPs and educational panels with Mr. Jambor, at Sidewalk in Birmingham and in her second year here with Indie Memphis.

Index

23:59

Horn Island

Peaceful Afternoon

5 Minutes Each

How to Cheat

Pillow

Aaron of Midtown

Humanimation

Play the Hand You're Dealt

Am I

The Interrupters

Prarie Love

Archer

Interview with Paul Eade

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History 46

Bad Fever

Irma

Recess

Ballerina

It's Natural to be Afraid

Roboy

Bathing and the Single Girl

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

The Rooster

Be Still

John Gray

Be Still

Kudzu Vine

Beatboxing: The Fifth Element of Hip Hop

Better than Something: Jay Reatard

Bird Droppings

The Birds Upstairs

Black Rock Revival: Mission Control

The Last Visit

Blind Mississippi Morris

Bob

Broken Cycle

Butterfly Rising

Cat's Cradle

C'est Un Mime

Come on Down and Pick Me Up

Confessions of a Pedalphile

Crazy Beats Strong Every Time

David

Diamond's Shine

The Dish & the Spoon

Disillusioned

Dragonslayer

Fake It So Real

Fanning the Fire

Five Time Champion

Fresh Skweezed

Gayby

Give Up Tomorrow

Grounded by Reality

Lemon

San Diego

Secret Screening #1

Secret Screening #2

Seven Souls

Life

Sexting

A Little Closer

Shudder House

Little Horses

Silent Movie

Lord Byron

Sixty in 60

Losers Take All

Snow on Tha Bluff

Love, Lots of It

Solitary Metz

Lukos

Stepping: Beyond the Line

Martha Marcy May Marlene

The Strange Ones

Maxed Out

Surprise

Melancholia

Survival of the Sweetest

Mercury in Tuna

Table Six

Merde

Tast of the "T"

Moon Pie

Taxi Driver

Moth to a Flame

Tell-Tale

Movie Mania

Terrebonne

Ms. Marvel's Day Off

The Thaumaturge

Murderbilia

These Amazing Shadows

My Big Red Purse

This is What Love in Action Looks Like

New Moon in the Morning

To Be Heard

The Ninth Floor

Two-Legged Rat Bastards

Nothing Less Than an Enemy

Undefeated

The Notorious Jesse James

Untitled

Of Love and Sea Monsters

Where Soldiers Come From

The Orderly

Without

Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Home Game

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians

Without Wings

Woman's Picture

The Wonder Year

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Secret Screening #1 Taxi Driver

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

The Interrupters

Woman’s Picture

Teen Showcase Nothing To See Here Podcast

Screenwriting

Music in Film

Stepping: Beyond the Line

Short Films #3: Documentaries

Taxi Driver

Five Time Champion

Eleanor’s Secret

Heaven+Earth+Joe Davis

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations

To Be Heard

Short Films#5: Student

TBA Women Make Movies

SAG Indie Beat Boxing

Documentary Panel Short Films#6: Southern Prairie Love

Melancholia

Fake It So Real

David These Amazing Shadows

The Interrupters

Bad Fever (77 min.)

David (80 min.)

Five Time Champion (90 min.)

Jeff, Who Lives at Home (83 min.)

A humorless loner who attempts to win the admiration of a drifter with his debut performance at the local comedy club.

An eleven-year-old religious Muslim boy inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys who mistake him for being Jewish and accept him as one of their own.

A film about love, hope, petty theft, adultery, and the boundless opportunities presented by science.

On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. Starring stars Jason Segel, Ed Helms, and Susan Sarandon.

Beatboxing: The Fifth Element of Hip Hop (55 min.) Learn how this modern style of music has spread and how it continues to enrich the entertainment world.

Better Than Something: Jay Reatard (88 min.)

Give Up Tomorrow (95 min.) The Dish and the Spoon (92 min.) Devastated by the news of her husband’s affair and convulsed by waves of grief and rage, twenty-something Rose drives to a sleepy seaside town in Delaware, intent on finding her spouse’s lover.

Dragonslayer (75 min.)

Black Rock Revival: Mission Control (80 min.)

Eleanor’s Secret (80 min.)

An intimate vérité portrait of the life and times of Josh “Skreech” Sandoval, a 23-year-old skate legend from the stagnant suburbs of Fullerton, California.

Follows the Memphis Rock group Black Rock Revival as they record their latest CD, Mission Control.

A beautifully designed, rollicking animated adventure in which a boy’s ability to read not only sets his imagination free but also saves the day.

Butterfly Rising (92 min.)

Fake It So Real (97 min.)

Singer Lilah Belle sets out to escape her grief and embarks on a road trip, but not before coaxing the most scandalous woman in Artesia, Rose Johnson, to go with her.

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Follow a ragtag group of wrestlers in North Carolina, and see what happens when the over-the-top theatrics of the wrestling ring collide with the realities of the working-class South.

A Little Closer (72 min.) In rural Virginia, a single mother struggles to find love, while her two adolescent sons discover sexuality.

Lord Byron (91 min.) Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis (85 min.)

An intimate portrait of the late Memphis musician Jay Reatard, who toured the world and released dozens of records over the course of a 15-year career that began in his teens.

In a murder case that ends a nation’s use of capital punishment, but fails to free an innocent man, two grieving mothers personify the chasms that divide two families and, by extension, a nation.

The story of a peg-legged philosopher who broadcasts vaginal contractions into deep space to communicate with aliens.

Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians (92 min.) Follow the rise of the Churchteam, arguably the largest and most well funded blackjack team in America.

How to Cheat (89 min.) Mark’s decided to do something bad.

The Interrupters (125 min.) The moving and surprising story of three individuals in Chicago who with bravado, humility and humor try to protect their communities from the violence they once employed.

A kaleidoscopic portrait of the world of a single individual named Byron, a late20th century romantic who is confused and torn about his own ambitions and desires.

Losers Take All (95 min.) A made-in-Memphis comedy set in the world of indie rock, circa 1986. Copresented by the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission / MemphisED.

Martha Marcy May Marlene (120 min.) A young woman undergoes an explosive crisis of identity after escaping the confines of a rural cult-like farming community. Starring Elizabeth Olsen in her feature film debut.

Undefeated Reception in Lobby w/ Davy Ray Bennett

After Party @ Cafe w/ Perfect Vessels

Rooftop Night-Cap w/ Bluff City Backsliders”

Taxi Driver

The Dish and the Spoon Where Soliders Come From

The Wonder Year

These Amazing Shadows This is What Love in Action Looks Like Reception @ Cafe w/ 10 O’Clock

Short Films #2: Home towner

Live Music @ Cafe w/ Michael Joyner Band

After Party @ Cafe w/ Neosoulville

Rooftop Night-Cap w/ Black Rock Revival

Short Films #1: Life

TBA

Lord Byron

How to Cheat Secret Screening #2

Holy Rollers

Skrillex @ Minglewood

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Losers Take All Reception @ Cafe w/ Chris Owen

Future of Indie Film

Better Than Something: Jay Reatard After Party @ Cafe w/ Women of Memphis Rock

Live Music @ Cafe w/ Memphis Sounds with Nancy Apple

Back Rock Revival: Mission Control

Dragonslayer

Jeff Who Lives at Home

The Subteens @ P&H Cafe

Short Films #4: Dark & Stormy

Give Up Tomorrow

Bad Fever

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Without

Snow on Tha Bluff

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Conversation w/ Chris Parnell

Awards Show Live Music @ Cafe w/ McGhee and Me

Short Films#7: Funny Ha Ha

TBA TBA

Butterfly Rising A Little Closer

Melancholia (136 min.) Lars von Trier’s psychological disaster film starring Kirsten Dunst. Sponsored by Alarum Pictures.

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (150 min.) The true story of one of the most notorious murder cases in U.S. history and the aftermath in which three teenagers were convicted of murder.

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (130 min.) The sequel returns to the site of the Robin Hood Hills murders to probe issues raised by the first film, and by the groundswell of public interest that it inspired.

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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History (79 min.) The story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home. Sponsored by Henry Turley Company.

Snow on tha Bluff (79 min.) When Atlanta robbery boy and crack dealer Curtis Snow steals a video camera from some college kids in a dope deal, he gives the it to his best friend, and they start documenting their lives.

Stepping: Beyond the Line (47 min.) Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (121 min.) The Regional Premiere of the conclusion of the Paradise Lost Trilogy, which saw the release of the West Memphis Three on Aug. 19, 2011.

Prairie Love (80 min.) A mysterious stranger rescues a rural man from a frosty demise.

An exploration of the rhythm and movements, history and brotherhood of step dancing.

Taxi Driver (113 min.) The 35th anniversary restoration print of Martin Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece, starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Cybill Shepherd.

These Amazing Shadows (88 min.) A documentary about the history and importance of the National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.

This is What Love in Action Looks Like (72 min.) In the summer of 2005, Zach, a 16-yearold boy from Memphis wrote on his MySpace blog that he had told his parents he was gay. Within days, his mother and father would send him to Love In Action, a fundamentalist Christian program that refers to homosexuality as an addictive behavior. Co-presented by the Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center.

To Be Heard (87 min.) Lives and language on the edge: Three teens from the Bronx tell their stories of friendship, love and struggle, and show how a radical poetry class can ignite change.

Undefeated (113 min.) An intimate chronicle of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field. Co-presented

by the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission / MemphisED.

Where Soldiers Come From (91 min.) From a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, this documentary follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, forever changed by a faraway war.

Without (89 min.) On a remote wooded island, a young woman becomes caretaker to an old man in a vegetative state. Her isolated routine devolves into a struggle with sexuality, guilt and loss.

Woman’s Picture (105 min.) An anthology film inspired by classic women’s films of the thirties, forties, and fifties.

The Wonder Year (79 min.) A year in the life of CEO, NAACP Ambassador, Duke University Professor, Husband, Father, Son and Grammy award-winning producer 9th Wonder.

2011

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