News in the Arts: Entries taken for film festival
On Location: Memphis is now accepting entries for its 11th annual International Film Festival, to be held in April at Malco’s Ridgeway Four.
Entries are being accepted in the categories of feature film, documentary, animated film, live-action short, music video and student-created film.
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Past festival guests have included Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Isaac Hayes, Cybill Shepherd, animator Don Hertzfeldt, Del Shores (creator of “Sordid Lives”), music documentarian Robert Mugge and directors Craig Brewer and Ira Sachs.
For more information or to download an entry form, visit onlocationmemphis.org.
‘Teenage Tupelo’ comes home
“There’s more to Tupelo than Elvis and gum trees.”
That’s the slogan for the inaugural Tupelo Underground Film Festival, to be held today at Good Time Charlie’s, a restaurant/bar at 2901 Eason Blvd. in Tupelo, Miss.
The event will be highlighted by the first public Tupelo screening of what may be Mississippi-born, Memphis-based moviemaker John Michael McCarthy’s most personal feature, “Teenage Tupelo” (1995), in which a poor young flower of the Magnolia State is impregnated by a has-been rockabilly singer; the girl overcomes her problems with the help of a man-hating gang of female rebels and a nudie-film star.
“Teenage Tupelo” tentatively is slated to screen at 9:30 p.m.
The festival lineup also includes the recent features “Visioneers” (7:30 p.m.) a satire set in an Orwellian America of the near future, which stars Zach Galifianakis (“The Hangover”); and the Mississippi-made “In a Trice” (5 p.m.), directed by Glenn and Derek Payne. Shorts and music videos (including one for the song “H.P. Lovecraft” by Cockfight Club) will accompany the features.
In addition, the work of North Mississippi “underground” artists will be on display in the restaurant’s gallery.
Admission to the festival, slated to begin at 5 p.m., is $5 for the evening. For more information, visit .
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In other festival news, the 41-year-old Nashville Film Festival is accepting entries for its 2010 edition, set to take place in April the week before the On Location: Memphis International Film Fest.
Filmmakers can compete in almost a dozen categories, including “Discover” (for first-time feature filmmakers) and “Music Films.”
Past festival attendees have included Robert Redford, Oprah Winfrey, Nicole Kidman, William Shatner, Peter Falk, Patricia Neal, John Waters and Al Gore.
For more information, visit nashvillefilmfestival.org.
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