Jan 28 2009
Memphis Li’l Film Fest
Live from Memphis had its Li’l Film Fest kick off party tonight. I’m really jazzed about this thing. To clue you in, Li’l Film Fest is a quarterly film festival held in Memphis, TN. Film submissions have to be five minutes or less, hence the li’l in the name. Anyway this year the theme is Memphis fact or fiction. You have to make a film revolving around a Memphis legend or else make something that sounds like it could be a Memphis legend. Fun theme if you ask me.
At the party tonight they released the secret ingredient. You have to include Riverboats somehow. However it’s not really a limitation ‘cause if you want, you can just have somebody come on at the end and say “man, dudes, I really love riverboats”. That’d be a nice random pot head comment, something from that odd character that breaks in a random moments to spew totally unrelated dialogue.
I have no idea what I’m going to do for this yet. However I’ve got six weeks to get something together. I’ll defiantly try. Well more than try, my camera will have to break for me to not give in something no matter what the outcome. This’ll be my first festival to enter and that just makes me oober happy. The winners of the festival, besides getting moolah, also get their film entered into the Memphis Indie fest. And that…well that’s just fucking fantastic. In all seriousness, fantastico.
Here’s the Li’l Film Fest website. If you live in Memphis defiantly check this out. Even if you don’t live here, there’s some cool and cute little shorts on their website from previous festival.
Oh and one last comment: the Live From Memphis studio looks bad ass. Really creative set up. It’s worth the drive to downtown just to sit in there and soak that atmosphere in.
