CO-OP NEWSSSSS

The MeDiA Co-op UPDATE.......
The Memphis Digital Arts Co-op 1000 S. Cooper Memphis TN 38104 901.278.9077

1. UPCOMING SCREENINGS/EVENTS
2. OVERALL CO-OP UPDATE....
   

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1.UPCOMING SCREENINGS/EVENTS:

• Sunday Nov 13th 6pm Films By Andrei Tarkovsky

• Tuesday Nov 15th 7:30pm Open Discussion on different filmmakling esthetics

• Sunday Nov 20th 6pm Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price (http://www.walmartmovie.com)

(The Films Of Fellini have been postponed)

• Tuesday Nov 22nd 7:30pm Open Forum for discussion about current projects...

• Sunday Nov 27th 6pm Celebration by Thomas Vinterberg, and The Idiots by Lars Von Trier

2.OVERALL CO-OP UPDATE

FREE TUESDAY NIGHT WORKSHOPS every tuesday at 7:30
Thanks to all of you who have been attending, facilitating, or even thinking about the Tuesday NIght workshops at the MeDiA Co-op. Coming up on our 4th year of holding these workshops every tuesday night, we are going to be changing the format up a bit, and launching a new educational program at the Co-op starting in the new year. Starting immediately, tuesday nights are going to serve more as an open forum, a place for people to discuss the films they're working on, a place to seek assistance for a production you're gearing up for, or to let people know what you've learned about the projects you've completed.

SUNDAY NIGHT FILM SCREENINGS every sunday at 6pm
We officially launched our ESSENTIAL FILM SERIES to take place every sunday night at 6pm for a measily 3 bucks. These films will be scheduled in advance and advertised secretly through flyers that you can find at places like BlackLodge Video and Otherlands. THis film series will feature great directors from international and american cinema, from the past and present. Each screening will be accomodated by a lecture of some sorts. Some screenings will also actually be lectures on film history, with clips of films and the like. We will be encouraging people from the community to become engaged and be apart of this by selecting films and filmmakers they know alot about and therefore to curate a night of the ESSENTIAL FILM SERIES.

MEMBERSHIP
The co-op now offers 4 tiers of Membership ranging from simple use of office space/internet/printers, to access to a G4w/Editting and Design software, to access to a miniDV camera/boom mic/boom pole/various low-grade lights/tripod. We also have an Patron Membership where if you donate $100 to the co-op you can get discounts for workshops and screenings throughout the year at the co-op. If you have more questions, please email Tim at membership@mediaco-op.org or Andrew at anennngr@memphis.edu

1ST ANNUAL FILMMAKERS CONFERENCE
To celebrate our 4th year of being apart of the Film community of Memphis after First Congregational so graciously accepted us into their wonderful building we will be launching the FIRST ANNUAL MID-SOUTH INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS CONFERENCE in March. The conference will be a mulit-day event with workshops, panels, and screenings. Their will also be an audition formatted similar to the UPTA"s where film actors can audition in front of a panel of directors. Through this conference we hope to unite the independent film community in the surrounding area. We hope to establish the following goals through this project:
-The creation of the MIFD: Memphis Independent Filmmakers Database
A database of all the local directors, producers, actors, etc etc Including a listing of every film created in this city and who's worked on what and where.
-A Library of all locally produced works
-The initiation of an info-list serve where the local film community can stay in-touch with what's going on-including auditions, screenings, need to assistance with crew, etc...

We will start requesting information from individuals soon to get some of these projects off the ground. Please Let us know if you'd like to help with this in any way.

HOPE TO SEE YOU AROUND THE MEDIA CO-OP SOON.