There are 41 article(s) tagged Indie Memphis:

• April 2025

  • Indie Memphis exec: ‘Absolutely no plans’ for nonprofit to end

    Indie Memphis announced Friday it was “pausing” programming, but the organization is adamant the “intermission isn’t goodbye.”

    By Jody Callahan April 04, 2025

• November 2024

  • Indie Memphis returns — a viewer’s guide

    The 27th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival starts Thursday with potential sleeper hits, films of local interest and movies you may not see anywhere else. 

    By Chris Herrington November 12, 2024

• October 2024

  • Indie Memphis announces film-fest slate, featuring ‘Nickel Boys’

    One of the year’s most highly anticipated films, an adaptation of author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel “Nickel Boys,” will be the centerpiece selection of the 27th Indie Memphis Film Festival.

    By Chris Herrington October 16, 2024

• October 2023

  • Raven Jackson sells out Indie Memphis screening ahead of national release

    “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” was not filmed in Memphis or in Tennessee. But Memphis and Tennessee have left indelible marks on the A24 film.

    By Elle Perry October 27, 2023

  • The To-Do List: Halloween hike, underwater bubbles and ‘Beetlejuice’

    This week, 1990s R&B legends Tony! Toni! Tone! play the Orpheum, spooky double dutch comes to Tom Lee and you can sample your way around India at the Agricenter.

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Kelsey Bowen, Elle Perry, BJ Gibbs October 26, 2023

• July 2023

  • Meet Indie Memphis’ 2023 Black Filmmaker Residency, Fellowship recipients

    Both recipients receive a $7,500 unrestricted cash grant during their two-month program.

    By Elle Perry July 26, 2023

• March 2023

  • The To-Do List: Legos, chalk, beer Olympics and a Red Bull dance off

    This week, Master Gardeners get the garden party started, U of M dance students present new works and “Ink” tells the story of Robert Murdoch’s rise.

    By Elle Perry, Bianca Phillips March 23, 2023

• December 2022

  • That’s the ticket! Local company changes film festival scene

    This season, Sundance Film Festival attendees will buy their passes through Eventive, a ticketing app made for Indie Memphis by 15-year-old Theo Patt in 2015. 

    By Jane Roberts December 08, 2022

• October 2022

  • Memphis celebrates Wattstax anniversary with film screening

    The concert sometimes called the “Black Woodstock” turns 50 this year.

    By Judaea Driscoll October 03, 2022

• August 2022

  • New film to be a ‘Slice’ of Black swim culture in Memphis

    Zaire Love is the woman behind “Slice,” a short documentary about the style of pool diving mostly practiced among Black youth and men in the Memphis area. 

    By Jasmine McCraven August 02, 2022

• July 2022

  • The To-Do List: Summer booze, South Main and a fest for Black and brown filmmakers

    This week, see cult classics from John Waters and David Lynch, explore an interactive art exhibition made from guitar cords and microphones and take a trip to Southern Decadence at MOSH.

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Elle Perry July 28, 2022

• March 2022

  • The To-Do List: Farmers markets, ‘Remembering MLK’ and a party in the park

    This week, Opera Memphis kicks off 30 Days of Opera, animatronic dinos stomp into the Renasant Convention Center and an art show at Tone explores gender and gender variation.

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Elle Perry March 31, 2022

• February 2022

  • Herrington: Todd Snider’s and the Drive-By Truckers’ Memphis songs

    A generation ago, Todd Snider and the Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood and Mike Conley were all struggling Memphis musicians. With Snider and the Truckers back in town on the same night, here’s a listening guide to their Memphis-inspired songs. 

    By Chris Herrington February 04, 2022

• January 2022

  • A guide to the Sundance Film Fest screenings in Memphis this month

    Indie Memphis will host eight screenings from the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, one of seven “satellite” hosts for this year’s Utah-based festival. 

    By Chris Herrington January 06, 2022

  • The To-Do List: Home tours, Elvis’ birthday and Black Nerd Power

    Microcinema, the Mallory-Neely House and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra are all on the table this week. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 06, 2022

• September 2021

  • Sundance Satellite Screenings returning to Memphis

    The Satellite Screenings take place across the country during the festival’s closing weekend Friday, Jan. 28 through Sunday, Jan. 30.

    By Jasmine McCraven September 28, 2021

• August 2021

  • Indie Memphis brings film fest back to Overton Square in October

    Masks will be required at indoor festival screenings, with partial theater capacity for social distancing. 

    By Chris Herrington August 02, 2021

• March 2021

  • Indie Memphis names new executive director

    Knox Shelton, who has been executive director of Literacy Mid-South since 2016, will take over the lead role at Indie Memphis.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff March 04, 2021

• February 2021

  • Movies this week: Oscar favorite ‘Nomadland’ on the (really) big screen, ‘Coming 2 America’ teases

    “Nomadland” has competition for biggest movie opening in Memphis this week. The other is Malco’s Studio on the Square, which joins the handful of other Memphis Malco theaters that have reopened over the past couple of weeks. 

    By Chris Herrington February 05, 2021

• January 2021

  • Indie Memphis brings a dozen Sundance screenings to Summer Drive-In

    Sundance has long been the American independent film scene’s most prominent launching pad.

    By Chris Herrington January 13, 2021

• December 2020

  • Indie Memphis to bring Sundance Film Fest to Summer Drive-In

    The festival, considered the most prestigious festival geared around American indie film, will be screening its selections this year at satellite locations, and Memphis will be one of these “Satellite Screens.”

    By Chris Herrington December 02, 2020

• October 2020

  • A viewer’s guide to the 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival

    The Indie Memphis Film Festival will go “Online & Outdoors” Oct. 21-29 as it reinvents itself this fall because of the pandemic.

    By Chris Herrington October 22, 2020

• September 2020

  • Drive-in throwbacks, emerging filmmakers highlight 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival slate

    The Indie Memphis Film Festival offers a scaled-back and scattered outdoors pandemic edition this year. 

    By Chris Herrington September 25, 2020

  • Indie Memphis goes ‘Online & Outdoors’ for 2020 film festival

    The 23rd annual festival will offer more than 20 outdoor screenings at a variety of Memphis venues, including Malco’s Summer Drive-In, Shelby Farms, the Levitt Shell, the Grove at GPAC and the parking lot of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. 

    By Chris Herrington September 10, 2020

• August 2020

  • Indie Memphis executive director to step down

    Ryan Watt has held the top job at the film organization since 2015. A national search will be conducted to replace him.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff August 31, 2020