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Thursday, February 23, 2006

march at the co-op

March at the MeDiA Co-op
1000 S. Cooper Memphis, TN 38104 901-278-9077

  • Tuesday March 7th 7:30pm - FEATURING LOCAL FILMMAKERS MARK JONES and RYAN PARKER
    • 7:30-8:00 Open House/Membership sign up
    • 8:00-9:00 Mark Jones(Writer/Director/Producer) and Ryan Parker(DP/Editor/Director), who collaborated on the international festival hit, Eli Parker is Getting Married, will talk about their experience both on Eli, and on their latest, yet to be released fature film, Fraternity Massacre. They will show clips, and take questions about their projects.
  • Saturday March 4th 10am-6pm- - AUDITIONS for new Sawed-Off Collaboratory Film
    • This auditon is by appointment only, so please email Morgan@mediaco-op.org to set a time slot, and to recieve more information. More on Sawef-Off Collaboratory HERE.
  • Saturday March 25th 2:00pm - the First ever LIVE FROM MEMPHIS LIL' FILM FESTIVAL
    • Live From Memphis is pleased to present its first ever theme-based, mini-festival:
      LIL' FILM FEST!! "What is Lil' Film Fest?" you ask. Well, there's always something weird, strange, unusual, funny, or at least interesting happening around town, so we figured, Why not turn those happenings into lil' films? This first ever Lil Film Fest theme is: Baptist Hospital Implosion. For info on how to enter your film into this festival, go HERE.
      ALSO, please visit LIVE FROM MEMPHIS regularily to see what an amazing resource they are. Thanks.

DON'T FORGET about the rest of FEBRUARY:

  • Friday Feb 24th, and Saturday Feb 25th at the MeDiA Co-op, Memphis' first ever SGL Film Festval, featuring films with GBLT people in the African American community in celebration of Black History Month. Films begin at 7:00pm on Friday, and at Noon on Saturday, including many *Award winning films never before seen in Memphis.

  • ACT ONE at Studio on the Square (Extended for a second week!!!). The winner of this years Indie Memphis Best Hometown Feature award, ACT ONE is a very solid film. Don't miss this Old School Productions film while it's still enchanting audiences during its now two week-long run at Malco's mid-town Studio on the Square. For more info: GO HERE

Auditions for new Sawed-Off film

Heart*strings
written by John Roemer, and Morgan Jon Fox.

  • Closed auditions, by appointment only on: Saturday, March 4th 10am-6pm at the MeDiA Co-op: 1000 S. Cooper Mem, Tn (yes, this time has changed since we last posted about it)
To make an appointment, please email: morgan@mediaco-op.org

**All ages/colors/sizes/orientations/etc encouraged. ***especially encouraged are people who've never acted before, but who are interesting, who care about life, who are comfortable in their skin, who are gender outlaws, and bursting at the seems with wonderful ways of looking at life, etc etc and so on.

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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Old School Pictures Announces Malco’s Week-Long Engagement of “Act One” at Studio on the Square



Old School Pictures is going to be running "Act One" at Studio on the Square from Friday, February 17 to Thursday, February 23. Malco has graciously offered to co-sponsor a full week run for the film. That's 4 shows a day for 28 total screenings! Come and check out the film if you didn't get to see it at Indie Memphis where it won Best Local Feature! Check it out 2 or 3 times, there will be plenty of opportunities! If this run is successful then Malco will surely be open to sponsoring these types of events in the future, which will benefit everyone in the local film community. Tickets will be available through all the normal Malco outlets, and showtimes will be featured on their site as well as the newspaper. For more details about the film, including cast and crew info, photos, and the trailer, be sure to bust on over to Old School Pictures.