Indie Memphis Film Festival 2007 program (PDF file)

Here's the Indie Memphis 2007 program.

Indie Memphis preview party

On Friday, October 12, Indie Memphis will host a preview party for the tenth annual Indie Memphis Film Festival, a project of Delta Axis, from 6:30 pm to 9:30 p.m. at Otherlands Coffee Bar, 641 S. Cooper

The event will highlight local storytellers and the filmmakers featured in the weeklong Indie Memphis Film Festival, October 19-25 at Malco’s Studio on the Square in Midtown Memphis.

Live music by Rae-Ray and trailers for hometown feature-length films to be premiered at the Indie Memphis Film Festival will be presented in an outdoor theater Otherlands.

Indie Memphis Film Festival passes will be sold this night only for a discounted price of $70 each (regular price $80). The passes provide admission to all films during the festival. Indie Memphis merchandise, including t-shirts and caps will also be available for purchase. Food and beverages may be purchased from Otherlands.

For more information, please email tracy@deltaaxis. org or visit www.indiememphis.com.

Come and get 'Unhinged'

Indie Memphis schedule

Here's a schedule of the films at the Indie Memphis Film Festival. It's a PDF file and they're sorted by category and title. Other schedules by day will be coming soon.

Sayles and 'Honeydripper' @ Indie Memphis

John Sayles -- "probably the most significant filmmaker ever to attend Indie Memphis" -- will present the Memphis premiere of "Honeydripper." The acclaimed writer/director/actor, two-time Oscar nominee and Bruce Springsteen music video director will introduce the film, a blues-based drama about an Ike Turner-like electric guitar innovator who galvanizes a rural juke joint in 1950 Alabama. There will also be a Q&A after the screening on Oct. 19 at the Malco Studio on the Square.

John Beifuss in The Commercial Appeal writes: As a pioneer of personal, independent cinema and a sometime studio screenwriter-for-hire, Sayles, 57, has found success in the mainstream and on the margins of Hollywood. His projects as a writer-director have dealt with labor disputes, Latin American politics and the environment, while his scripting duties have included such commercial features as "The Clan of the Cave Bear" (1986) and the upcoming sequel, "Jurassic Park IV."

Here is ticket info on Indie Memphis: "Honeydripper" will screen at 8 p.m. Oct. 19 on two screens at Malco's Studio on the Square, 2105 Court at Overton Square. Tickets are $8.50 each, and will be available in advance starting Friday at malco.com or the Studio on the Square box office. Tickets for all other Indie Memphis screenings also go on sale Friday at the Malco Web site and the Studio box office.

Also, "six-packs" good for admission to any six screenings (excluding the Sayles premiere) are available for $40 at Indiememphis.com. Also at the Indie Memphis Web site, festival passes good for all screenings and events will be available for $80 each (or $70, if bought before Oct. 18). Passes also can be bought at a free public Indie Memphis preview party to be held from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday at Otherlands, 641 S. Cooper.

All proceeds from ticket sales go to Indie Memphis, a project of Delta Axis, a nonprofit organization that promotes the visual arts.

The festival runs Oct. 19-Oct. 25 on three screens at Studio on the Square, with a lineup that includes close to 120 shorts, documentaries, narrative features, locally produced movies, music videos and other films.

Volunteers for Indie Memphis (nice benefits!)

Indie Memphis wants you. Volunteers are needed to help out from Oct. 19-25.

The shifts are two hours long, and volunteers receive a free one screening pass for each shift worked, and one T-shirt per volunteer. Anyone interested should contact alisainmemphis@comcast.net.

Workshop on making a SAG film

SAGIndie Signatory Workshop
When: Sunday, October 21, 2007, 12-1 p.m.
Where: Malco's Studio on the Square
(Part of the Indie Memphis Film Fest events)

Are you considering producing your own film? Don't know where to start? Plan to attend Memphis Signatory Workshop, presented by Screen Actors Guild and SAGIndie.

Memphis Signatory Workshop: Conducted by David Fazekas, the Guild's South Region Executive, this presentation will introduce and explain SAG's various low-budget agreements, including special agreements for short and student films. David will walk you through the process of signing a Screen Actors Guild low-budget agreement from start to finish, and answer any other questions you might have about the Guild.

This workshop is free and open to anyone interested in learning about the SAG agreements.