Friday, April 13, 2007

Casting call repost

CASTING CALL for independent movie being shot in and around the
Memphis area. All ages needed.

For anyone who submitted info before April 1st, would you please
call me. My computer caught a virus and I lost the March material.

Open auditions to be held at the Germantown Community Theatre, 3037
Forest Hill Irene, G'town, Saturday April 14th and Sunday April 15th
noon-5pm. Call backs April 16 & 17. Note: GCT is not affiliated
with the production. They are only kind enough to let us use their
space.

Appointments for auditions on April 14-15th are available between
noon and 2pm. Call Jo Galiata (901) 482-1726 to schedule. Open
call is at 2pm-5pm.

CHANGE: Children's auditions will be on APRIL 23rd from 4-8pm with
appointments available from 4-6pm. Appointments are highly
encouraged.

Due to budget constraints, this will not be a paying job, although
full consideration will be given in the credits.

SYNOPSIS: A family man loses everything after the brutal murder of
his wife. He begins abusing alcohol and prescription drugs and
slowly self-destructs and he begins hallucinating and witnessing
bizare murders. He struggles to pull himself together and learns
the awful truth about his life.

Parts being Cast:


Allen Clay mid 30's, husband and writer
Joyse Clay mid 30's, wife and mother
Chris Clay 6-12, girl/boy Allen and Joyce's child
David Nichols mid 30's, husband and father-Allen's sarcastic friend
Lacy Nichols mid 30's, David's wife, Lacy's friend
Nat Nichols 6-12, girl/boy, David and Lacy's child, Chris's friend
Car Dealer any age, sleazy we-tote-the-note manager
Landlady mid 50's+, crass slumlord
Evan mid 40-60's, nepotisstic warehouse janitor
Keith mid 20-30's, Evan's lazy nephew
Cheating Busines man
mid 30-40's
Secretary mid 20's, sarcastic and aloof
Ellen mid 40's+
Ray mid 20's, landlady's son

There are also several minimal speaking and non speaking parts
availabe. Also, many extras are needed.

Contact Jo Galiata for further information: 482-1726

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

"Other Way Round" screening

Brian Pera's "Other Way Round" is finished and will be showing for the cast and crew and assorted friends on Wednesday, April 25th, at 9 p.m. at Studio on the Square. If you can, and would like to bring friends, I'll need to know how many people you'll be bringing, so I can plan accordingly.

There will be a 7 o'clock showing advertised for the larger public, so please don't get that confused with the cast and crew showing at 9.

'Nobody' screening this Thursday @ Brooks

The excellent documentary "Nobody" is being screened Thursday at the Brooks museum as part of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

The festival is also Sunday April 15th at 9:15 a.m. in Durham, N.C. The New York Times and indieWIRE call Full Frame, "The premier documentary film festival in the United States."


Nobody is one of 10 films selected for the Full Frame/ Emerging Pictures theatrical digital extension which happens around the country April 12th - 15th. Below are the times and locations where Nobody is scheduled to play so far.


There will be an Audience Award given to one of the ten films. Alan Spearman and Lance Murphey would greatly appreciate your vote for Nobody as favorite film.

Full Frame / Emerging Pictures Digital Extension-Nobody screening times

**Memphis TN: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Thursday 4/12 @ 7pm**

-Martha’s Vineyard MA: Capawock Theatre, Sunday 4/15 @ 4pm
-Hudson NY: Time & Space Limited, Sunday 4/15 @ 2pm
-Scranton PA: Endless Mountains Theatre, Sunday 4/15 @ 11:45am and 6p.m.
-Wilmington DE: Theatre N at Nemours, Saturday, 4/14 @ 4pm
-Fort Lauderdale FL: Cinema Paradiso, Saturday, 4/14 @ 5pm
-Lake Worth FL: Lake Worth Playhouse, Saturday, 4/14 @ 4pm
-Key West FL: Tropic Cinema, Thursday 4/12 @ 8pm

Spread the word about it to as many people as possible. Please feel free to pass this information onto any organizations, churches, interested groups and urge your friends that live in the cities where Nobody will be screened to attend the digital extension.

Learn more about the Full Frame Film Festival at http://www.fullframefest.org/

Monday, April 9, 2007

Delta Axis for April: come visit

Here's info on events this month presented by Delta Axis. This organization has brought cutting edge art and film to town and we're all better for it. Check out its site, join up and drink it in.

And I'm not saying this just because you can get a tour of my wife's studio (April 26, see below).



Wednesday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.
Indie Memphis Micro Cinema Club #28
Power House, 45 G.E. Patterson (between Main & Front Streets)
Free Admission, Donations Recommended
Selections from the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.

* Phone Call From An Imaginary Girlfriend: Ankara and
* Phone Call From An Imaginary Girlfriend: Istanbul
o Don McKellar, 2 minutes each
* Man Feel Pain
o 2004, Dylan Akio Smith, 11 minutes
* Ryan
o 2004, Chris Landreth, 14 minutes
* Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come to Dinner
o 2003, Jamie Travis, 17 minutes
* Unwritten
o 2005, Kaare Andrews, 10 minutes
* At the Quinte Hotel
o 2005, Bruce Alcock, 4 minutes
* Desastre
o 2004, Jay Field, 23 minutes



Friday, April 13
Matt Ducklo | Touch Tour Pictures
Opening reception 6-8 p.m.
Power House, 45 G.E. Patterson (between Main & Front Streets)
Exhibition Dates: April 13-May 31, 2007
Power House Memphis is pleased to announce an exhibition of six new works by Matt Ducklo. He is a photographer who captures a moment that is usually staged but in reality is an unusual element of an American institution: from the presentation of the news in TV studios to a new series of works that explore the "Touch Tour" - blind people touching works of art in museums. In these new works his subject is the blind experiencing sculpture by touch. Looking at somebody experiencing something with a different sensibility, the photographs contemplate people, "in the act of seeing." This series includes photographs made in the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC and for the Power House Memphis a commission to make new photographs at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Ducklo is a native Memphian, this will be his first solo exhibition in Tennessee. Matt Ducklo received a MA from the University of Tennessee in 1996; and his MFA in photography from Yale University in 1999. He currently lives and works in Queens, NY.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I am interested in communication and what can be known by looking and how touching can function as seeing. This project is about the limitations of art. A lot of my business in New York City is done in the area around 23rd street and Sixth Avenue. I buy film on 18th Street and have it processed on 22nd Street. I rent equipment on 21st and I print on 27th. I began to notice a lot of blind people in the neighborhood before I realized that the Associated Blind Housing is located on 23rd between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. I don't recall ever encountering a blind person growing up in Memphis. I wondered if Manhattan was probably the best place in the United States for a blind person to live in part because most of the city is on the grid and public transportation is common and accessible. About the time I noticed the Associated Blind, I was making pictures of local newscasters that were related to the sides of buses and the idea of looking for information. I began thinking of other kinds of ways to lead and I found myself making pictures of seeing-eye dogs and their owners, which lead to this current body of work.


Tuesday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.
Net Impact presents a special film screening
Iraq for Sale
Power House, 45 G.E. Patterson (between Main & Front Streets)
The mission of Memphis Net Impact is to strengthen the network of professionals in the Memphis area who use the power of business to create a better world through targeted social, intellectual, and professional activities.
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of corporate greed in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private security companies making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so. RSVP required to rsvp@memphisnetimpact.org.


Thursday, April 26th from 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Artist Studio Visit
Maritza Davila
3233 Waynoka Cir.
Free for Delta Axis members, $5 for non-members
The Artist Studio Visit includes a light reception and discussion with the artist, Maritza Davila, in her studio.

Maritza Davila is Professor of Fine Arts at the Memphis College of Art. For the past 24 years she has taught drawing and printmaking. Davila has exhibited around the world and has works in collections in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean and Asia. She has received awards in the U.S., Puerto Rico and France.

ARTIST STATEMENT
The thread that runs through my work is the collection of experiences that, through blood and culture, make me who I am. My work reflects these histories and choices bound up in the qualities of my essential self. I use frames within frames, house shapes, arches, doorways, lace patterns and the landscape as metaphors for home and the journeys in life related to ancestry, memories, family, politics and the spiritual. I interpret these elements using diverse print techniques and in a variety of media. These expressions lend themselves especially well to original multiples, which are inherently flexible and well suited to propagating my ideas. In artwork that celebrates the past, creates in the present and records for the future, time thus becomes the element that binds medium and concept.


Showing Through April 28
Paul Behnke | Sallynoggin Drawings and
Dwayne Butcher | Art Made With a Ring
Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts
639 Marshall Avenue
Gallery hours: Saturday 1-5 p.m. or by appointment


Coming in May:
DADA Ball 2007 | Everyday DADA
A masquerade fundraising party to support Indie Memphis, Power House & Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts
Saturday, May 19, 7 p.m. – midnight at Power House
Featuring art, music, dance, poetry and other performances throughout the evening. Costumes encouraged, but not required.
Come show your creative side at DADA Ball 2007!
Tickets available at the door: $10/person for Delta Axis members, $15/person for non-members
Cash bar

The mission of Delta Axis is to present contemporary art and film and link Memphis with global artistic communities.

'Grim Sweeper' on April 19

The Memphis indie film Grim Sweeper will play at Malco's Studio on the Square in Midtown Memphis on Thursday April 19th.

This was screened at last year's Indie Memphis Film Festival and the place was packed. It's a highly entertaining feature by a group of University of Memphis grads and well worth your time. And I'm not saying this just because I'm in it.


There will be TWO screenings that night.


1st Screening at 7:10 PM

2nd Screening at 9:35 PM

Tickets are $6 and are sure to go fast so make sure you buy them in time. We will be handling ticket sales ourselves so do not contact Malco about advance ticket sales. You can however email us at grimsweeper@gmail.com about buying advance tickets.

Collectible limited edition Grim Sweeper t-shirts will also be on sale for $10! All the cool kids have em! You should too! Proceeds will help fund Corduroy Wednesday's latest film project. (If ya buy a shirt, I'll let you in on the goods about the next film!)

See ya Thursday April 19th and spread the word loyal Sweepers!!!

Blood, brain, guts, and stains, and even a little bit of skull, the police and coroner have come and gone but who's going to clean up this mess? Grim Sweeper, that's who.

Hal Ridley and Rod Azner are the guys that do the dirty work. They make those stubborn bloodstains disappear. They pick up every piece of mangled flesh, bloodied organ, and shattered bone. You wouldn't even know a triple homicide took place after these guys get done. Day in and day out Hal & Rod face grieving families, disgusting locations, and awkward scenarios. One day the boys are called to clean up a shotgun suicide. Hal meets the victim's sister, Leslie Howard, and the two start dating. But can love really be found in the aftermath of death?

Enjoy the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3duF7RoV4Y

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival @ Brooks

April 12 - 15
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Purchase your film pass online
Brooks members: $28 for a festival pass
(8 films total) or $4 per film
Non-members: $35 for a festival pass or $5 per film
Recognized as the premier documentary film festival in the United States by The New York Times, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival celebrates the power and artistry of documentary film. Many of the films shown at the festival have gone on to be Academy Award nominees and winners. Dorothy K. Hohenberg Auditorium

Thursday, April 12
- Nobody, 7 pm (Local: Memphis filmmakers Lance Murphey and Alan Spearman won the best narrative feature award at the 2006 Indie Memphis Film Festival for this bold, innovative film about one vagabond spirit who finds the Mississippi River a salvation.)
- The Hands of Che Guevara, 8:30 pm

Saturday, April 14

- Welcome to Nollywood, 12 pm
- Angels in the Dust, 1:30 pm
- Uganda Rising, 3:30 pm

Sunday, April 15
- Knee Deep, 12 pm
- Seeing Sally: A Psychic’s Tale, 1:30 pm
- Revolution ‘67, 3:30 pm

For film descriptions click here

TiVo time: LTTM schedule for April

This month's edition of the fest includes everything from premiers to vintage indie films, plus a trailer for the soon to be released feature film, Curbside Confessions! Our host for this month is J. Lazarus Hawk; the filmmaker who directed the multi-award winning, Craig Brewer produced, Morning Ritual.

Previews:

Trailer for Curbside Confessions, a Cowboy Up Production. http://www.cowboy-upproductions.com/
Trailer for Divine Manipulation of the Threads, a Rusted Sun Film. www.RustedSunFilms.com


The Films:

Cherry Blossom- Produced by Cowboy Up Productions and directed by Arnold Edwards II. A film about how all men live by an unwritten code. The specifics of that code will differ from man to man, but the basic remains the same. http://www.cowboy-upproductions.com/

Kiss Off- directed by David Liban and produced by the University of Memphis in 1998, Kiss Off was the first project of its kind done at the university. It went on to win the Bronze Award, at the Worldfest Flagstaff- in the Performing Arts/Film/Video category. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=153780290

In An Instant- directed by Arnita Williams and produced by Be About It pictures, IN AN INSTANT tells the story of a close knit family as they all become suspects in the mysterious death of a twin sister's pro-ball playing husband. www.ArnitaWilliams.com www.MySpace.com/Arnita

Music for ending credits:

Save Our Soul- Performed by FreeWorld featuring the voice of James Govan. www.listen.to/freeworld.net

Be sure to look for the BONUS FILMS after the ending credits!

A preview trailer of Sharon Jones's art show, A MASQUERADE, at "TEAR IT UP", right beside/behind CELTIC CROSSING. It is scheduled to be on display thru the month of April. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=26026642

The Times:

Sunday- midnight
Thursday- 2:00 a.m.
Thursday- 10:30 p.m.
Saturday- 1:30 a.m.
Saturday- 11:00 p.m.

For more info or to enter a film, go to www.LastTraintoMemphis.com

Check with the Library Channel web site or our web site for scheduling info. This is a weekly schedule that will begin on March 31st.