Photo by Amit Berlovits/New American Vision
Ezri (Ran Danker, left) and Aaron (Zohar Strauss) in "Eyes Wide Open," a 2010 film directed by Haim Tabakman.
Fifteen international and independent feature films will be screened Sept. 10 through Sept. 16 during the 13th annual Outflix Film Festival at Malco's Ridgeway Four, 5853 Ridgeway Center Pkwy.
Coordinated by the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center, the festival, which is devoted to films focusing on gay issues and characters, now attracts close to 2,000 moviegoers annually.
Photo by Amit Berlovits/New American Vision
Ezri (Ran Danker, left) and Aaron (Zohar Strauss) in "Eyes Wide Open," a 2010 film directed by Haim Tabakman.
The Sept. 10 opening-night selection is "Children of God," set in the Bahamas against a backdrop of homophobic violence. Other key films include "Eyes Wide Open," which takes place in an orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem; "Undertow," shot in a Peruvian fishing village; and "Stonewall Uprising," a documentary about the infamous 1969 New York police raid on a Mafia-run, Greenwich Village bar.
Tickets to individual films are $9 each. A festival pass is $75. For tickets, a full schedule and more information, visit outflixfestival.org.
ArtsMemphis adds grantees
ArtsMemphis, a nonprofit fundraising organization for the arts, has added three local arts groups to its annual funding list. Hattiloo Theatre, the Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum and Memphis Cultural Arts Enrichment Center/Watoto de Afrika are now among ArtsMemphis' "Mosaic" grantees, which receive yearly funding.
Each group will receive $3,000 for the 2010-11 season.
It has been several years since ArtsMemphis expanded the number of groups it funds because of the economic downturn and the concern that doing so would cause the amount of money given to other arts groups to decrease.
A recent $600,000 grant from the Plough Foundation enabled ArtsMemphis to increase and expand its allocations.
There are now 16 "Mosaic" groups and ten "Keystone" groups that receive annual funding.
-- Christopher Blank
The 'Beat' goes on
TNT is renewing the Bluff City-set, Louisiana-shot cop drama "Memphis Beat" for a second season, according to reports in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter.
Starring Jason Lee as an Elvis-loving, musically inclined Memphis police detective and DJ Qualls ("Hustle & Flow") as a somewhat comic uniformed officer, the series has earned more than respectable ratings for a cable program, averaging 4.5 million viewers per show since its June 22 debut.
-- John Beifuss
Designing movies
Some movie stars are said to be chiseled, monumental or built like a brick house. But this month you'll have a chance to see films with literally architectural subjects, thanks to the Memphis chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
In recognition of the fact that September is Architecture Month, the AIA has organized a weekly documentary film series at the Longinotti Auditorium at the southwest corner of St. Francis Hospital, 5959 Park.
Each film screens at 7 p.m., and admission is $5, cash only. Some screenings will be followed by lectures or talks by the filmmaker.
Here's the lineup:
Wednesday -- "Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio."
Sept. 15 -- "Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans."
Sept. 22 -- "Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman."
Sept. 29 -- "Land of Opportunity."
For more information, visit architecture monthmemphis.org.
--John Beifuss
Show added for Kottke
After selling out his Oct. 1 performance at the Buckman Center in less than three days, acoustic guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke will now perform an added show on Thursday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m.
Tickets, now on sale, are $35 adults, $32 seniors and students, and are available by calling 537-1483 or visiting buckmanartscenter.com.
-- Christopher Blank
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