NAME OF FESTIVAL: Indie Memphis Film Festival
SINCE: 1998
WHERE: Memphis, TN, United States
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Indie Memphis Film Festival brings a broad range of independent features, documentaries and short films to Memphis from all corners of the country.
Indie Memphis Film Festival
Indie Memphis Film Festival announced that the 2019 festival along with a preview of its 2019 slate including Ira Sachs’ FRANKIE with Sachs in person.
Indie Memphis Film Festival held its annual awards ceremony on Saturday, November 3rd announcing awards for all competition films.
This year’s 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival is promising to be a very exciting and wildly varied one, with a lineup featuring five World Premiere screenings and one U.S. Premiere screening, as well as Special Presentations such as CABIN BOY
Boots Riley still riding high off the success of Sorry To Bother You, will attend the Indie Memphis Film Festival to deliver the keynote address at the Black Creators Forum
Indie Memphis Film Festival continues it commitment to supporting black filmmakers, present and future, with the new Black Creators Forum, running November 1st and 2nd at the Hattiloo Theatre.
We Go On directed by Matteo Servente was named the winner of the 2nd annual Memphis Film Prize and walked away with the top award of $10,000 cash.
IT FELT LIKE LOVE, directed by Eliza Hittman
IT FELT LIKE LOVE, directed by Eliza Hittman won the Jury award for Best Narrative Feature; and BROTHERS HYPNOTIC, directed by Reuben Atlas won the Jury award for Best Documentary Feature at the Indie Memphis film festival which took place October 31 to November 3, 2013. The audience, on the other hand, voted for SHORT TERM 12, directed by Destin Cretton to win the Narrative Feature Audience award and A WHOLE LOTT MORE, directed by Victor Buhler took home the Documentary Feature Audience award.
The 14th Indie Memphis Film Festival ran November 3rd thru 6th, and wrapped on Sunday night with its awards ceremony. A Little Closer by director Matthew Petock took the top Jury prize for best film. In the film, set in 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 towns aging singles set. Meanwhile, Marc is desperate to lose his virginity, and spends his days working at a used car lot. And his brother 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.
Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis, directed by Peter Sasowsky won the Jury award for Best Documentary. The film takes the viewer with Joe Davis,a peg-legged artist and motorcycle mechanic from Mississippi, around the world and into the visual and philosophical landscape of his art.
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Indie Memphis will hold its 14th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival this year from November 3 to November 6, 2011. Screenings and events will once again take place in the heart of Midtown Memphis at the new Playhouse on the Square, Malco Theatre’s Studio on the Square, and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. The Indie Memphis Film Festival, which was named one of MovieMaker magazine’s “25 Coolest Film Festivals” in 2009, drew a record-setting […]