Memphis IFF Opens Tomorrow

The 10th annual Memphis, TN, Film Festival, sponsored by the Memphis Film Forum, and currently being prefaced by "On Location," opens tomorrow Thursday, 23 April. All screenings will take place at the Malco Ridgeway Four, 5853 Ridgway Center Parkway.

Tickets to individual screenings are on sale at www.malco.com. Tickets to Opening Night are $10 each, all other tickets are $8.50 each, with the exception of Cinema For Seniors ($5) and Kids First Films (free).

Opening Night Movie, 7:30 p.m., PROM NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI, a documentary directed by Paul Saltzman.

Opening Night Party, 10 p.m. [Their Web site time is wrong], at Ground Zero Blues Club just off Beale Street in downtown Memphis, 158 Lt George W Lee Street. Walk the red carpet, get your photo made by the paparazzi, enjoy great music! Festival Awards presentation will take place at approximately 10 p.m. followed by the finalists in the Songwriting Contest and more Memphis music. Admission is free with a festival pass. At the door, $10.00.

Friday afternoon, 24, Senior Citizen's Day (over 55), 12:15 p.m. All films are $5.00.

Saturday morning, 25, Kids First Film Festival, 10:00:00 a.m. All films are free, family friendly, and seating is limited - first come first seated. READ MORE.

To link to the Festival's Web site, click title of this post.

Memphis Film Festival Next Month

The 10th anniversary edition of the Memphis International Film Festival, Memphis,TN, will take place April 23-26 at Malco's Ridgeway Four. The festrival, also known as "On Location Memphis," will take over the theater showing films on all four screens. The festival is sponsored by the Memphis Film Forum.

There will be a special announcement in the coming weeks regarding the Opening Night film scheduled for Thursday, 23 April, with red carpet treatment. See the list of movies selected so far, and find the info posted about individual films. Read a capsule of last year's festival on Mimi's Film Festivals Page. For link to the Official Web site, click title of this post.

Check back on this blog for more updates on the schedule, more film additions (documentary, animated, shorts and features), workshops, special screenings for children and Senior Citizens, and the Young Film Critics Contest!

Memphis Area Alert: Free Screening

On Location: Memphis, and WKNO (Radio and TV), are hosting a free preview screening of SON OF RAMBOW at Malco's Studio on the Square in Memphis, TN, Wednesday, 14 May at 7:30 p.m. On Location: Memphis sponsors the annual Memphis Film Festival.

Directed by Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), the movie was an audience favorite at this year's Sundance Film Festival. It is described as a hilariously fresh and visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and death-defying adventures, during an English summer in the 1980s.

To request free passes to the screening, send an email to lisab@onlocationmemphis.org, or call 901.626.9685. Be sure to include your name and phone number. Passes may be picked up Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, at 326 Ellsworth, or held at the door. The film is rated PG-13.

On Location: Memphis International Film Fest opens Thursday!

This year's On Location: Memphis International Film Festival opens Thursday night. There will be films, music, and a party every night. Filmmakers, producers, actors, and a surprise celebrity here and there are expected to attend. More than 90 films representing 20 countries and the U.S. will be screened.

Thursday, the festival opens at 7:30 pm at Malco's Paradiso Theater, with a screening of the new blues documentary, DELTA RISING, filmed at Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, MS.

If you have a full-fest pass, you can attend, at no additional charge, the screening and the after party at the Ground Zero Club on Beale Street (approximately 9:00 pm), Freeman's not-yet-open-to-the-public Ground Zero Blues Club Memphis, featuring the Queen of Beale Street, Ms. Ruby Wilson.

If you do not have a full-fest pass, do not wish to purchase one, you may still attend the screening and after party by purchasing a Membership for $20.00 each before the screening, plus screening tickets.

You can attend only the screening for $8.50, if individual tickets are available. No after party included.

Full-fest passes were $60, and were available online. You should have checked my Film Festival Page earlier this month, because fest passes go up to $70 today, and will only be available at the door. I'm not sure if the student pass ($30) will increase. Individual screening tickets are $8.50 each. They, Memberships, and full-fest passes, will be available now only at the door of each event. Available tickets on a first-come basis.

For more, see my Film Festival Page (link on right sidebar), call 901.626.9685, or go online by clicking the title of this post.