Oxford Film Festival 2016 Program

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Welcome to the 13th annual Oxford Film Festival The festival has seen some exciting changes this year as we transition to a full-time, year-round event with our first full-time paid executive director. We are adding more monthly programs, and have built the festival into a five-day event instead of four; with more venues, panels, parties and films. We are also focusing on helping to support local filmmakers get their films made with our OxFilm Society program.

One thing that has not changed is our focus on great movies.

This year the Oxford Film Festival will bring you 139 films that will provoke and amuse. From documentaries on “Dixie,” a comedy about divorce, puppets in love, and an animal balloon fight, to music videos and experimental shorts; this year’s slate of films really has something for everyone.

What is a film festival? Sure, it is about watching independent and low budget films, getting to interact with filmmakers, and learning more about the industry. But, it is more than that. Just as you go to a book signing or an art reception, going to a film festival is about supporting the arts. From first time filmmakers and DIY go getters, to veterans in their field, film festivals showcase a wide variety of talents. For you, this is a rare opportunity to see films before many others do; from our world and regional premieres to special screenings of films that may not otherwise get to be shown locally.

I am especially excited to host the filmmakers and special guests in Oxford. I love how our town rolls out the red carpet for visitors, and we know they will feel right at home because of you.

This weekend is not just movies! We have nine panel discussions that focus on a variety of topics in the film industry such as: making movies here at home, getting cast in a movie, and diversity in the industry. Our experts will be sure to inspire you.

The most important element of every festival is the Q&A with the filmmaker. This is your opportunity to learn more about how the movie was made, why the filmmaker made certain artistic choices, and more.

Interaction with the filmmaker at a festival is what makes these events so special. Don’t miss out on taking the opportunity to speak one-on-one with a filmmaker.

But, of course, there are also the parties. Anyone with a VIP pass or a party upgrade ticket gets to hang out with us in the evenings. From a bigtop circus themed awards ceremony, to a concert with surprise musical guests; the festival parties put the festival in film festival.

I look forward to meeting each and every one of you this weekend.

As the executive director, my job is made easy because of the support of our sponsors, our hard working volunteers, and you, our guests. If I don’t get the opportunity to thank you in person, please know that your support means the world to the Oxford Film Festival and myself.

I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge all those hard working women and men who came before me to make the festival what it is today. If you see them around be sure to thank Molly Fergusson, Michelle Emanuel, Diala Chaney, Micah Ginn and so many others for their efforts over the past 12 years to bring independent film to Oxford.

Please join me in celebrating this year’s festival. I’ll see you at the movies.

Melanie Addington

Roll Credits Thirteenth Annual Oxford Film Festival (2016)

Executive Director: Melanie Addington Oxford Film Festival Board: Wayne Andrews, Meaghin Burke, Tim Burkhead, Joy Clark, Shannon Cohn, Bethany Cooper, Mary Allyn Hedges, Hudson Hickman, Jon Maynard, Jack Pendarvis, Sparky Reardon, Donna Ruth Roberts and Dr. Ralph Vance.

Narrative Feature Programmer: Kim Voynar Documentary Feature Programmer: Mark Rabinowitz Documentary Shorts Programmers: Mary Margaret Andrews and Courtney Hall Animation Programmer: Michelle Emanuel Experimental Programmer: Brooke White Music Video Programmer: Newt Rayburn Mississippi Narrative Programmer: Deborah Barker Mississippi Documentary Programmer: Maggie Woodward Production Services provided by SparkLab Projectionist: Greg Gray Volunteer Coordinator: Dawn Bullion Publicist: John Wildman Publications Manager: Tom Speed Panels Coordinator: Kristen Brown Social Media: Juli Jackson Transportation Coordinator: Philip Mercadante Box Office Coordinator: Withrow Newell Jury Wrangler: Arik Sokol Screen Managers: Toby Douglas, Montana Byrd, Patrick Hudson, Taylor Collins, Vanessa Brasher Line Manager: Virginia Brick Development Support: Joli Nichols, Courtney Hall, Mary Margaret Andrews, Wayne Andrews Hoka Sculpture Artist: Bill Beckwith Q&A Coordinator: Rory Ledbetter Print Traffic Coordinator: Dawn Boddie Ballot Coordinator: Pamela Lawhead Merchandise Coordinator: Masa Miscevic Hotel Coordinator: Kristin Rogers Green Room Coordinator: Alex Etheridge Children’s Workshop: Bruce Butler Database Manager: Kayleigh Graham Party Coordinators: Diala Chaney, Joy Clark, Kayleigh Graham, Molly Beth Shaffer, Patrick Hudson, Susan McPhail and Lynn Wells Interns: Allie Evander, Katie Whann, Paige Zornes, Ginni Jones, Kylie Fichter Trailer Editor: Mary Knight Awards Ceremony Technician: Daniel Lee Perea Staff Photographers: Bill Dabney, Mike Stanton Screeners: April and James Simmons, Bill Lawhead, Mary Warner, Theresa Levitt, Shona Thomson, Dawn Bullion, Wayne Andrews, Steve Bozeman Jr., Marya Paolillo, Withrow Newell, Betty Musselwhite, Cheryl Resetarits, Ellie Campbell, Marilyn Frey, Mary Knight, Blake Hemphill, Win Graham, Catherine Dorman, Tom Speed, Ben Atkinson, Lacey Sanders, Dylan Kerr, Philip Mercadente, Samuel Tardif, Tracy Koslowski, Maggie Smith, Juli Jackson, Hillory Howell, Sarah Wadford, Toby Douglas, Kelly Johnson, Sherna Benjamin, Marianna Lee, Felicity Flesher, Andrew George, and Sarah Dickey Documentary Crew: Jeff Brister, Jim Burt, Montana Byrd, Thomas Cooper, Maverick Kohljof, Meredith Mansfield, Philip Mercadente, Nathan Reed and Lacey Sanders Poster Design: Elwood Madison Award Ceremony Hosts: Eric “Godiva” White and Ron Shapiro Printed Program Design: Susan Bauer Lee Ad Design: Hopper Ad and All Other Design: Stephen Rogers, Blue Clock Designs Contributing Writers: Tom Speed, Allie Evander Office Support: Andrew George Special Thanks to: Aidan Addington, Harry and Lynda Addington, Molly Fergusson, Michelle Emanuel, Micah Ginn, Diala Chaney, Donna Ruth Roberts, Neil White, our steering committee and new board, Daniel Lee Perea, Bradley Bishop, Chris Offutt, Sonia Thompson, James Willis and Karen Scott, Johnny and Susan McPhail, Kim Voynar, Mark Rabinowitz, Don Lewis, Tom Huckabee, Ron Shapiro, Barton Segal, the people of Oxford and especially Wayne and Mary Margaret Andrews.

The Oxford Film Festival is an independent non-profit organization with a 501(c)(3) status. Donations may be tax deductible. Contact us at info@oxfordfilmfest.com or 877-560-3456. oxfordfilmfest.com

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February 17-21, 2016

Welcome to Mississippi and the Thirteenth Annual Oxford Film Festival. The Mississippi Film Office has been a proud supporter of the festival since its inception, and is happy to be a part of this vibrant and innovative cinematic celebration. We are delighted to have you here.

In addition to providing a great venue for our own Mississippi filmmakers, and for presenting bold and engaging independent film to an audience from throughout the South; we are happy to show off Mississippi to all of the visiting filmmakers. Oxford, Lafayette County, and locations across the state have supported location film production for over 100 years, and we look forward to supporting the industry long into the future; wherever and however filmmaking may advance.

Our Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Program will certainly be a part of that future. Our cash rebate program returns to the filmmaker up to a 35% rebate on Mississippi production expenditures and on resident and nonresident cast and crew payroll within 90 days of completion of production here. Our $50,000 minimum spend is the lowest for a rebate in the country. Video games, national commercials, webisodes, shorts, documentaries, television, and features are all eligible. There are also tax reductions on production equipment. We are committed to making changes dedicated to the continued development and support of the film industry in Mississippi. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at 601-359-3297, or visit our website, www.filmMississippi.org.

Have a great time in Oxford and in Mississippi…and for you filmmakers, we look forward to working with you on your next project.

The Mississippi Film Office Ward Emling Nina Parikh Betty Black Bill Webb

Dear Visitors, On behalf of the Board of Aldermen and the citizens of Oxford, I wish to extend a warm welcome to you while you are here for the 2016 Oxford Film Festival. We are glad to have our own film festival as a place for exchanging knowledge, educating viewers and sharing artistic expression.

In addition to its charm and hospitality, Oxford offers an excellent venue for enjoying films. We are proud of past festivals in terms of attendance and content and we are happy to see this event continue to grow. While you will be occupied by the festival’s activities, we hope there will also be time for you to get acquainted with Oxford.

Please enjoy the natural beauty of the campus of the University of Mississippi, the friendly scale of our streets and neighborhoods, and the excellent restaurants and shops. The Oxford Film Festival is an asset to this already vibrant and beautiful community.

Enjoy your visit and please let us know if we can help you in any way while you are here.

With best wishes, Sincerely, George G. Patterson Mayor of Oxford

PHIL BRYANT GOVERNOR

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

Dear Friends, As Governor of the State of Mississippi, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 11th annual Oxford Film Festival. I know you will enjoy the wealth of talent that will be showcased as well as the panel discussions and other activities that are part of this outstanding festival. Of course, I know you will also enjoy your time in Oxford, and I encourage you to explore all of the interesting venues, restaurants, and attractions that make this town so special.

In December of 2013, I made the exciting announcement that 2014 would be the Year of the Creative Economy in Mississippi. Working with the Mississippi Development Authority’s Tourism Division, it is my hope to invite Mississippi-born musicians, performers, filmmakers, chefs, photographers, and other artists back home to showcase their talents.

There is no place quite as special as Mississippi when it comes to the arts, and this yearlong celebration will offer a unique way to highlight all that sets our state apart. The support of members of the arts community like yourselves will be especially important in making this a success, and I encourage you to visit mscreativeeconomy.com for more information on how you can submit an event to be part of the celebration.

Again, welcome to Oxford and enjoy the festival!

Sincerely,

Phil Bryant GOVERNOR

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And The Award Goes To…

Each year of the Oxford Film Festival, winners in the narrative feature and short, documentary feature and short, animation, experimental and Mississippi narrative, documentary and music video categories receive The Spirit of the Hoka award. New this year is a best editing award, selected by head programmers and staff. The Festival is presenting two new awards this year: Best Editing and the Alice Guy-Blaché Award for female filmmakers.

What is a Hoka?

The award is named for the Hoka Theater, founded by Ron Shapiro in Oxford in the 1970s.

The combination movie house and café first brought independent films to town and served as a cultural nexus for the townspeople and college students. At the time, it was a rare and special treat for a small town in Mississippi. It helped to coalesce a community of film buffs, too; a community that has blossomed under the care of the film festival over the past decade-plus.

The theater itself was named for Princess Hoka, the Chickasaw woman who, according to legend, first deeded much of Mississippi, including the area now known as Oxford, to white settlers back in 1832 with the Treaty of Pontotoc.

The Spirit of the Hoka statuette was created by renowned sculptor Bill Beckwith.

New prizes this year also include: Narrative Feature: • $20,000 camera rental package from Panavision • Eight hours of post color correction from John Davidson Color • A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers and reps can find you Documentary Feature • Three days of audio post production from Bad Animals of Seattle • Eight-hours of post color correction from John Davidson Color Narrative Short • A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers and reps can find you • Three days of audio post production from Taproot Design in Oxford Documentary Short • Three days of audio post production from Taproot Audio Design in Oxford

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Mississippi Narrative • Cash prize through the Casey Spradling Memorial Award • One-year membership and free equipment rentals from OxFilm Society • InkTip Script listing

Mississippi Documentary • Broadcasting on Mississippi Public Broadcasting (Broadcast on Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) Television is contingent upon and limited to the winning film meeting MPB’s legal, content, and technical guidelines.)

• one-year membership and free equipment rentals from OxFilm Society Mississippi Music Video • One-year membership and free equipment rentals from OxFilm Society

In addition to the Hokas, four other special awards are given: • The Alice Guy-Blaché filmmaker award is awarded to a female director.

It is named in honor of Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) who was the first female pioneer in early French cinema and is revered as the first female director and writer of narrative fiction films. It also includes a $1,000 cash prize and is selected by head programmers and staff.

• The Lisa Blount Memorial acting award is given to the strongest independent performance that shows an actor or an actress willing to take risks for their art. Lisa Blount, an award-winning actress from Arkansas, was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1983 for her breakout role in An Officer and a Gentleman, and received the Best Actress prize at the 2004 Stockholm Film Festival for her lead role in the independent feature film Chrystal. Along with her husband Ray McKinnon and coproducer Walton Goggins, Lisa took home an Academy Award for their Live Action Short The Accountant. Lisa passed away in 2010, not long after agreeing to be a juror for our 2011 festival. It is selected by head programmers and staff.

• The Ron Tibbett Audience Award is named for the founding director of the Magnolia Film Festival in Starkville, the first independent film festival in Mississippi. Tibbett died in 2004 in a car accident just over a year after his short film Buffalo Common debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.

• Editing Award for best editing of a film in festival.

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THURSDAY GUESTS

Panels & Conversations

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO SHOW 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Lyric Oxford The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour is excited to partner with the Oxford Film Festival to kick off the festival weekend. With special musical and literary guests to complement OFF’s already outstanding programming, audience members can expect an old-time radio hour style with updated and interesting content. The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour can be heard every Saturday at 7 pm on Mississippi Public Broadcasting and online at www.mpbonline.org/programs/radio/listen-live. More information on upcoming shows is available at the show’s website, thackermountain.com.

Daniel Smith, Texas Heart Historian/book author, screenwriter and filmmaker, Daniel Blake Smith has written and produced several feature films and documentaries, including the Emmy-nominated February One: The Story of The Greensboro Four, which was broadcast on PBS’s “Independent Lens”; Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy, hosted by Cherokee film star Wes Studi and narrated

by James Earl Jones; Black Indians: An American Story, also narrated by James Earl Jones; and Terror of the Soul: Edgar Allan Poe, a docudrama starring Treat Williams and John Heard (with music by Philip Glass). He is co-author and producer of Texas Heart, a feature dramatic film that was shot in Charleston and Grenada, Mississippi, starring John Savage (The Deer Hunter), Lin Shaye (Insidious), and Daniela Bobadilla (Anger Management). See texasheartfilm.net. A native Texan, Smith now lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

FRIDAY PANELS

Connie Hoy, BattleCreek (see jury profile page 11)

Casting Characters

Johnny Remo

Friday, February 19, 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm, Malco Screen 4, Free

Johnny Remo has worn many hats in the entertainment field and still does. He has worked as a successful actor in Stage, TV, and Films, including the award winning play Just Roommates that was written by Johnny, the Emmy Award winning daytime show, “One Life to Live,” “All My Children,” and Steven Spielberg’s Innerspace. Johnny has also produced more than 15 features while writing and directing six of them.

He has produced for such people as Debra Hill, producer of Escape from New York, Fisher King, and Escape from LA, and Robert Simonds, producer of The Spy Next Door, Pink Panther, Happy Gilmore and recently The Dog Who Saved Easter for Lionsgate. As a filmmaker Johnny has co-written, produced, and directed such feature films as A Letter to Dad, Cutback, Hardflip, Like A Country Song, and his newest movie, Saved By Grace. All were awarded five Doves from The Dove Foundation. All of his movies have won multiple awards in several categories. As a filmmaker he knows what a fellow filmmaker goes through to get a film made and as a distributor it makes him strive to get the best results from sales of movies he distributes

Do you have a unique face? Have you ever wanted to figure out how to break into the movies? Join Matthew Morgan of Morgan Casting alongside special character actor guests as he shares with you advice on how to audition for great character roles in the industry.

Moderator: Matthew Morgan (Canada) Matthew Morgan is a native of Canton, Mississippi.

He’s proudly cast two films directed by James Franco, based on novels by William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying and The Sound and The Fury. Matthew has also cast for such directors as John Krasinski, Alison Eastwood and Mississippian Patrik-Ian Polk.

Matthew’s company Morgan Casting has offices in Toronto, New Orleans and Canton, Mississippi.

Producing Films in Mississippi Friday, February 19, 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm Malco Screen 4, Free Filmmakers that have traveled to Mississippi recently to make movies talk about filming in the state. Topics include: How to use local talent to add authenticity/local flavor and character to the story, working with state film incentives, tips for filming in the state and more.

Moderator: MS Film Office - Nina Parikh (MS) Nina Parikh has served as the Deputy Director of the Mississippi Film Office for 16 years. She produced the Sundance award-winning feature film Ballast. Co-founder of the Crossroads Film Festival and Mississippi Film & Video Alliance, she also directs the Canton Young Filmmakers Program and is an adjunct professor at Millsaps College. She is a graduate of the film program at the University of Southern Mississippi. Recently, she helped produce the first TEDx event in Mississippi. Nina lives in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Katherine Dieckmann (see jury profile page 11)

Steve Sahlein Sahlein advises clients in key areas of media financing including film and television production, distribution, post production, music supervision, acquisitions and sponsorships. To date, Sahlein has more than twenty years of experience in the music and entertainment industries as an entrepreneur, senior level executive and project producer. He is a principal of both Primary Entertainment LLC., and Empire Media Partners LLC., entertainment consulting and business development firms partnering with clients and various major entertainment firms. Past deals include Access Hollywood, AETN International, CMT, The Emmys, Epic Records, Hollywood Reporter, Illustrated Media, NBC / Universal, The Oscars, Sony Pictures, BMG Music and VH1.

As the executive producer Sahlein has just completed post production and delivery on the feature film Slip, Tumble and Slide with Katherine Ross (The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and Scott Walker (“The Walking Dead”), and is now in pre-production on both the crime drama / thriller The Leash with Cuba Gooding Jr. and

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Lou Gossett Jr., which is set to shoot late Winter 2015 / 16, and the teen suspense thriller Block Island now set to shoot in early Spring 2016 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Steve Sahlein now splits his time between his homes in both Hollywood, California, and Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife Emeline, and two teen children, daughter Rachel (19), and son Erik (17).

Mississippi. He’s proudly cast two films directed by James Franco, based on novels by William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying and The Sound and The Fury. Matthew has also cast for such directors as John Krasinski, Alison Eastwood and Mississippian Patrik-Ian Polk. Matthew’s company Morgan Casting has offices in Toronto, New Orleans, and Canton, Mississippi.

Conversation with Joey Lawrence Friday, February 19, 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm, Malco Screen 1

Creative Mississippi: Documenting Small Town Stories

$10 or Free with day pass or weekend badge or VIP pass

Saturday, February 20, 10:00 am - Noon, Oxford Conference Center Free courtesy of the Mississippi Humanities Council

Moderator: John Wildman John Wildman is a filmmaker, film publicist, and film journalist and critic. His feature film directorial debut, the grindhouse art-horror thriller The Ladies of the House, was released to critical acclaim in 2015.

He was the Senior Publicist for The Film Society of Lincoln Center and FSLC’s New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, and the Chaplin Award Gala, the Director of Press and Public Relations for the American Film Institute as well as the AFI FEST International Film Festival in Hollywood, the Dallas International Film Festival and several other film festivals around the country. Wildman currently is a host on The Daily Buzz NPR broadcast on Austin’s KUT station and writes a column for Festworks.com entitled “Films Gone Wild.” He was formerly a contributor to FilmComment.com and Film Threat, and several publications prior to that including Movie City News and MovingPicturesMagazine.com.

Joey Lawrence Lawrence’s first acting role was in a Cracker Jack commercial. At the age of five, he appeared on “The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson,” where he performed the song “Give My Regards to Broadway.”

After appearing in guest spots on “Diff’rent Strokes” and “Silver Spoons,” Lawrence won the role of Joey Donovan on the hit NBC sitcom “Gimme a Break!” in 1983. He continued in that role until the series ended in 1987. The year 1985 marked Lawrence’s theatrical debut with the release of Summer Rental. Lawrence provided the voice of Oliver, the protagonist in the 1988 Disney film Oliver & Company. He is also known for his roles as Joey Russo in Blossom, Joe Roman (the eldest brother of three with his real life brothers) in Brotherly Love, and as Joe Longo in Melissa & Joey.

SATURDAY PANELS How to be a Child Actor: Does Your Kid Have What It Takes?

Saturday, February 20, 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm, Oxford Conference Center, Free

Matthew Morgan Join Matthew Morgan of Morgan Casting as he breaks down what you and your child need to know about the film industry and auditioning for roles.

Matthew Morgan is a native of Canton,

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This film block explores a new wave of artists and influencers who are shaping the emergence of a creative economy in Mississippi. A panel discussion following the screening, hosted by Malcolm White, will spark out-of-box thinking about Mississippi identity and culture, and explore how small towns are revitalizing themselves from within. What principle are we putting into practice? What can we share with communities with similar challenges and opportunities?

Sponsored by Mississippi Humanities Council and featuring Blue Magnolia FIlms/Corner To Corner Productions in alliance with Mississippi Office of Creative Economy. Natalie Irby is Executive Producer.

Moderator: Malcolm White Malcolm White has served as the unofficial ambassador of Mississippi culture for more than 35 years. As a creative entrepreneur, White spent years working his way through the ranks of the hospitality industry, leading him and his brother Hal to open Hal & Mal’s, a popular downtown Jackson restaurant and entertainment venue. He is also founder of the Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade, which benefits the Batson’s Hospital for Children and attracts more than 75,000 visitors from around the country to Jackson each year, and WellsFest, a family festival held each year in Jackson.

White recently published Little Stories, a collection of Mississippi photos and experiences from his personal perspective on his home state. White served as Director of Visit Mississippi, the tourism office of Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) from 2013 to 2015.

A native of Stone County, Mississippi, White holds a bachelor’s degree in social studies from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Throughout his career, he has been a member of and served on the committees of numerous civic organizations. White is presently involved in a variety of organizations including the Mississippi Freedom Trail, the Mississippi Blues Commission and Mississippi’s Bicentennial Organizing Committee.

Alison Fast Alison Fast is founder of Blue Magnolia Films, a production company dedicated to social impact filmmaking in the state of Mississippi.

She earned a Peabody Award for her work as a director/producer at NBC in Los Angeles. Through Barefoot Workshops, she has trained organizations across Africa and the Middle East to create films for education and advocacy purposes. Her goal is to use media to engage communities in transformative storytelling. Recent projects include the 45-minute documentary film, Will To Change, about a threestrikes offender who breaks the cycle of recidivism in his life, and a series of films to engage small towns in Mississippi in cultural and economic revitalization.

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Andy O’Bryan Andy O’Bryan is a serial entrepreneur from Oxford, Mississippi. He is the owner of Yalobusha Brewing Company, a microbrewery located in Water Valley, Mississippi, and is co-owner of Valley Vinyl, a vintage record shop. Previous businesses he owned were the UpTop Smoke Shop in Oxford, a retail cigar and tobacco shop that included a private cigar lounge and McAnerney’s, a restaurant located in the rural Carroll County community of McCarley. He serves on the Main Street Board of Water Valley and the state level board of the Mississippi Heritage Trust and the Mississippi Creative Economy Advisory Board. Andy’s interests include following Ole Miss athletics, Cubs baseball, fly-fishing, beekeeping, and working on his small farmsteads in Tula and McCarley, Mississippi.

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Mickey Howley Mickey Howley is the director of the Water Valley Main Street Association. He is the co-owner of Bozarts Gallery. A New Orleans native, he has lived in north Mississippi for 16 years. He has worked as a commercial shrimper and as a history teacher in the US and overseas in Turkey. He is starting his 9th year with the Main Street program, 7th as program director.

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Mitch Robinson

Sweet Magnolia Ice Cream Co. is a small-batch artisan ice cream company located in the heart of the Mississippi Delta and is a labor of love for ice cream aficionado and owner, Hugh Balthrop. From our kitchen to yours, our ice creams are created using premium local ingredients for a uniquely Southern taste that’s sure to leave you pleased!

After thirteen years away pursuing education and professional conservation experience, Mitchell Robinson returned to his native Mississippi in 2013 to invest his skills and energies in a familiar landscape and culture, one in great need of care and consideration.

He is currently the Education and Land Manager at Strawberry Plains Audubon Center in Holly Springs, and recently spoke at the inaugural TEDxUM event, with a talk titled “Being A Conservationist in Mississippi: Diversity and Biodiversity.” In and outside of his work, he actively seeks to bridge the gap between humans and the natural world, illuminating our interactions and helping others define a sense of place.

Josh West In 2011, Josh West and Nick Weaver purchased the remains of a long-forsaken garment operation in Memphis, Tennessee, and moved the equipment to their studio in Mississippi. Seven months later, Blue Delta Jean Co. shipped its

Independent Black Film Collective Panel Saturday, February 20, 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm, Malco Screen 4, Free

We’ve Got

Merch!

Check out the great merchandise in the Oxford Malco Commons Cinema lobby!

See photos on page 57. We have: • shirts

• cups

• hats

• vintage posters

• bags

• and more!

Prices range from $1 to $25!

There is something for everyone!

Cards, cash and check accepted.

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Moderator: Thabi Moyo Thabi Moyo uses what some might call OCD to bring a sharp focus to her passions in film production, event coordination, and photography.

The Jackson, Mississippi, native is the principal force behind the Digital Indie Girl hub – a futureready service for artists with a strong focus on photography, event and media production and the Independent Black Film Collective – an emerging arts organization geared toward deepen the engagement of people of color with existing film communities: film festivals, funders, film crews, etc.

Moyo’s varied artistic trail has taken her from campaign photographer to staff reporter; from film festival orchestrator (the first African American to coordinate Mississippi’s largest film festival Crossroads Film Festival) to Associate Producer for the award-winning documentary Prom Night In Mississippi, featuring Academy-Award Winner Morgan Freeman and more.

Moyo has also served as Assistant Director to the National Black Programming Consortium’s New Media Institute, an international transmedia project dedicated to imbuing filmmakers of color, particularly of African descent, with new skills and building authority in their digital authorship.

Currently, Moyo works as a location scout and social media manager for the Mississippi Film Office.

Tanya Wright (see jury profile page 11) RaMell Ross ( see jury profile page 11)

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“Get Film Critics to Review You” Saturday, February 20, 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm, Malco Screen 4, Free Ever wondered how smaller independent films get glowing reviews on movie blogs? Do you have a plan in place for your PR when your film hits the festival circuit? If not, this is the panel for you as film critics and film publicists share with you tips on what to do and what not to do.

Bruce Butler Bruce Butler is the director of Laff Co., a local comedy group, where he has honed the craft of improv comedy and sketch writing. He has also been the director of the Southeastern Comedy Arts Festival, a gathering of comedians and groups from all around, for the last six years. His is the host of an open mic comedy night that occurs every month and has performed stand up in a wide variety of places including France and Croatia.

Moderator: John Wildman John Wildman is a filmmaker, film publicist, and film journalist and critic. His feature film directorial debut, the grindhouse art-horror thriller The Ladies of the House, was released to critical acclaim in 2015.

He was the senior publicist for The Film Society of Lincoln Center and FSLC’s New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, and the Chaplin Award Gala, the director of press and public relations for the American Film Institute as well as the AFI FEST International Film Festival in Hollywood, the Dallas International Film Festival and several other film festivals around the country. Wildman currently is a host on The Daily Buzz NPR broadcast on Austin’s KUT station and writes a column for Festworks.com entitled “Films Gone Wild.” He was formerly a contributor to FilmComment.com and Film Threat and several publications prior to that including Movie City News and MovingPicturesMagazine.com.

Mark Rabinowitz Mark Rabinowitz is the co-founder of Indiewire. com and has been a critic, journalist, producer, film festival staffer, and media consultant since 1995. He has written for CNN.com, Paste, Alternative Press and Variety, among many others and is currently account director for LA-based publicity and marketing firm PMG. He has attended over 175 film festivals, including Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, Edinburgh, and of course, Oxford! As a producer, he has projects in development with producer Darren Dean (Tangerine, Kinyarwanda) and writers/producers Jon Cryer and Richard Schenkman. He really likes cheese and worships at the Shrine of Swine. Praise the Lard.

Edward Douglas (see jury profile page 12) Eric Snider (see jury profile page 11)

SUNDAY Panels Dissecting Hollywood’s Diversity Problem Sunday, February 21, 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm, Malco Screen 2, Free The hottest Hollywood issue on social media these days is diversity - and Hollywood’s lack of it. From 2015’s The Hollywood Reporter award-season round-table cover featuring only white actressess, to the dismal statistics about decision-makers in the industry, the Hollywood’s lack of diversity is perhaps its most urgent issue. Join our all-diverse panel of industry experts for a rousing, passionate discussion of the issues faced by women in Hollywood, and their ideas on how to disrupt those issues to generate real change.

Moderator: Kim Voynar Kim Voynar was an internationally recognized film critic for a decade, covering the film festival circuit and independent cinema for Movie City News, Cinematical, IndieWIRE and Variety, before transitioning into producing films in 2010. She co-hosts The Daily Buzz public radio show/podcast at Sundance and SXSW. After three years producing for a Seattle-based prodco, she’s now producing independently and is currently attached to projects with The Residents, Will Calhoun of Living Colour, and other cool stuff.

Her hobbies include oppressing her teenagers, karaoke, postapocalyptic survival training through glamping, trendsetting Seattle street style, and deep thinking on virtual reality and the mathematical perfection of logarithmic spirals and fractals.

Don Lewis (see jury profile page 11)

Tanya Wright (see jury profile page 11)

John Beifuss (see jury profile page 11)

Rachel Morgan (see jury profile page 12)

Children’s Workshop Saturday, February 20, 9 am - Noon, Powerhouse, Free Improv genius Bruce Butler teaches children the art of improv acting and then works with them to film a short about what they have learned. Open to ages 5-12.

The workshop will include some improv warm ups followed by a writing session to discuss what we are going to do with the film and develop a plot. We will then work on characters and scenes with an emphasis on improving them on each review. Assignments and roles will be given and then we will shoot a short film utilizing the ideas that we have created.

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Justina Walford Justina Walford has been writing for stage and film for over a decade. She is the writer and producer of the grindhouse film The Ladies of the House, scheduled for release in the spring of 2015. She is also writer/director of a number of short films, including her most recent thriller short, Dinner with Others, which is currently in post-production.

Rachel Raney (see jury profile page 11) Connie Hoy (see jury profile page 11) Lela Meadow-Conner (see jury profile 12)

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Animation Panel

Moderator: Don Lewis (see jury profile page 11)

Sunday, February 21, 11:00 am - 12:45 pm, Malco Screen 4, Free

Kent Osborne (see jury profile page 12) John Durbin (see jury profile page 12)

Meet the people behind Emmy Award winner “Adventure Time” and Oscar and Emmy winner The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore plus more special guests.

Join us as we talk with people involved with numerous great animation projects and learn the secrets behind their award winning projects.

Susan Hickman Susan Hickman has worked in voice-work since moving to Los Angeles in 1981. In 1990 she started a loop group and has done voice-overs on hundreds of hours of television and film. Her looping voice can be heard on such TV shows as “MacGyver,” “The Love Boat,” “Dead Like Me,” “Kyle XY,” “That Championship Season,” “Nash Bridges,” “Fame L.A.,” and most recently Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors,” which aired on NBC in December. Her animation credits include “Family Guy,” Hayao Miyazaki’s classic Japanese animé films: Kiki’s Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, and Castle in the Sky. She now lives in New Albany, Mississippi, with her producer-husband, Hudson Hickman.

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Jack Pendarvis Jack Pendarvis’s fourth book, Cigarette Lighter, just came out. His fifth book, Movie Stars, will appear in April. He is story editor for Adventure Time and does the voice of Root Beer Guy.

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Narrative Feature Jury KATHERINE DIECKMANN

TANYA WRIGHT For seven seasons, Tanya Wright played the role of Deputy Kenya Jones on HBO’s “True Blood.” She currently stars in the role of Crystal Burset (wife of transgender inmate Sophia Burset) on the Netflix original series, “Orange Is the New Black.” Tanya is the creator of the hair care line for women with curly/kinky/coily hair called HAIRiette and the author of I Found God In My Hair: 98 Spiritual Principles I Learned From My Relationship With My Hair. She screened her directorial debut Butterfly Rising at the Oxford Film Festival in 2012. Tanya was born, raised and lives in New York City.

ERIC SNIDER Eric D. Snider is a freelance film journalist and critic, the co-host of the podcast Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider (he plays Snider), and an enthusiastic supporter of the Oxford Film Festival.

You can find him online at EricDSnider.com, and in real life in Portland, Oregon.

Documentary Feature Jury DON LEWIS Don Lewis loves film. He is the Editor of Hammer to Nail and managing editor at Flick Nation. His short documentary films Stringers and Drag King have played numerous film festivals and garnered a few awards and his first documentary Worst In Show played the Oxford Film Festival in 2011. Don holds a Masters Degree in Cinema Studies from San Francisco State and resides in Northern California with his wife, daughter and dog named Igby.

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Rachel Raney has served as executive director of the Southern Documentary Fund since 2011. Raney is a seasoned non-fiction filmmaker and public TV/radio producer with many years of experience producing content, as well as collaborating with and supporting independent producers. After producing n multiple projects for CIR and other veteran docmakers, Raney’s directorial debut, the feature documentary Livermore, aired on PBS’ “Independent Lens.” Raney went on to create and produce the award-winning documentary series “Truly California” for KQED-TV, currently in its 10th season. Raney is currently developing a similar series in conjunction with SDF, UNC-TV, and SCETV.

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Meet the Judges

Writer-director Katherine Dieckmann’s most recent feature is Strange Weather, starring Holly Hunter, Carrie Coon and Kim Coates, produced by Jana Edelbaum and Rachel Cohen of iDeal Partners in association with Kalamalka Productions Limited, and executive produced by Caroline Kaplan and

by Jim Reeve and Robert Halmi, Jr., of Great Point Media. The film was shot in and around Jackson, Mississippi, in fall 2015, and Oxford’s own Johnny McPhail co-stars as Hunter’s exhusband. Dieckmann’s other films include A Good Baby (2000), starring Henry Thomas, David Strathairn and Cara Seymour; Diggers (2006), starring Paul Rudd, Sarah Paulson, Maura Tierney, Ron Eldard, Josh Hamilton, Lauren Ambrose and Ken Marino; and Motherhood (2009), starring Uma Thurman, Minnie Driver and Anthony Edwards. Dieckmann has also directed multiple music videos for R.E.M. and other bands, and was the originating director on Nickelodeon’s landmark series “The Adventures of Pete & Pete.” An Associate Professor at Columbia University’s graduate School of the Arts Film Program, where she teaches screenwriting, Dieckmann lives in New York City and upstate New York.

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RaMell is a poet, filmmaker and artist living between Alabama and Rhode Island. He earned degrees in Sociology and English from Georgetown University and a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He negotiates endlessly with the agnostic spirit of relativity, a nonexistent spokesperson for social etiquette, and the monosyllabic hecklers on his shoulders. He was recently a Sundance DPF fellow and named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 Filmmakers to watch for his upcoming feature Hale County. RaMell is currently a Visiting Scientist/Artist in the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Shorts Jury JOHN BEIFUSS John Beifuss is a longtime journalist and the movie critic for the daily newspaper in Memphis, The Commercial Appeal. He has written for The New York Times, TV Guide, and American Film and contributed entries on Southern horror and Southern comedy to The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (University of North Carolina Press). He is the author of the children’s book Armadillo Ray (Chronicle Books), and, most important, his first published article appeared in Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine.

CONNIE HOY Connie Hoy has worked in the film industry for over 25 years. She began her independent film journey by working under such directors as the Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, and Kathryn Bigelow. Her latest project, Battlecreek, directed by Alison Eastwood, was filmed in Mississippi in 2015. Ms. Hoy’s producing projects include The Heart Is A Drum Machine and Queens of Country. Queens is currently in post production and is rumored to be a breakout role for its star Lizzy Caplan.

Queens also stars Ron Livingston, Joe Lo Truglio, and Matt Walsh. She was presented with the 1998 Arizona Women in Film “Vision” award for her contributions to the Arizona film community and her directorial debut Hack. Her credits also include; Touching Home, Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, Mystery Train, Raising Arizona, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and Near Dark.

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Lela has been with the Tallgrass Film Festival since late founder Timothy Gruver invited her to Wichita in 2003. She began her tenure as festival producer and now helms the Tallgrass Film Association as executive director, focusing on fundraising, marketing, artistic direction of the organization and vacuuming the office floor. In addition to 10-plus years of experience in the entertainment industry in Hollywood, including marketing and publicity, she also holds a degree in the culinary arts. In her spare time, she can often be found in her kitchen producing, marketing and publicizing her culinary creations for her film festival compadres. How do you like them apples?

A writer and storyboard artist from Los Angeles, Kent has received multiple Emmy nominations for his work on shows like SpongeBob Squarepants, Phineas and Ferb, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and won an Emmy for Adventure Time in 2015. He is also the creator of the web-series Cat Agent.

Animation/Experimental/ Music Video Jury SKIZZ CYZYK Skizz Cyzyk has held positions at MicroCineFest, Maryland Film Festival, Slamdance, and Atlanta Film Festival, as well as serving on juries and advisory boards at many other festivals. His films include Alfred Jarry & ‘Pataphysics (which screened at OFF ‘14), Hit & Stay, Freaks In Love, Little Castles, Managers Corner, and music videos for Beach House, Young Fresh Fellows, and many others.

He writes for music and film magazines, is on the Board of Directors for Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and performs music with Go Pills, The Jennifers, Garage Sale, Half Japanese, and Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band.

JOHN DURBIN John Durbin is a senior animator at Moonbot Studios. Originally from Dallas-Fort Worth, John moved to Shreveport on the notion that a startup animation studio was offering a special opportunity that he couldn’t pass up. He was right; and in 2011 Moonbot Studios’ first project, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore won the Oscar for best animated short film. John’s most recent contribution at the studio is on Taking Flight, an animated short film for which he was lead animator. Since then, John has worked with Oldenburg and Moonbot on over 20 projects and counting. Moonbot is a fantastic place to work, where John gets to animate as well as help with pre-production, editing, sound design, music, motion graphics, and more.

Mississippi Jury JULIE KAYE FANTON Julie Kaye Fanton, a native of Oxford, comes to us from Los Angeles where she is set decorator for the ABC television series, “The Middle.” Her 36-year career as a set decorator for motion pictures and television has won her nominations for two Emmy Awards and one Art Directors Guild award as well as an Emmy in 1998. Julie and her husband Bud love films of all kind and she is delighted to be returning to OFF!

RACHEL MORGAN Rachel Morgan is the creative director and lead programmer for the Sidewalk Film Festival as well as an Instructor of Media Production and Telecommunication and Film at Lawson State Community College. She is also a co-instructor in the Documenting Justice documentary film program at the University of Alabama and is a former contributor to Film Threat. She received a BFA from The Savannah College of Art and Design in Film/Video Production and a MA in Film Critical Studies from the University of Alabama where her focus of study was on Children and Adolescence in Cinematic Horror.

EDWARD DOUGLAS Edward Douglas was a staff writer and editor at ComingSoon.net for over 12 years where he wrote reviews, interviewed filmmakers and actors and wrote the weekly movie preview column The Weekend Warrior. His specialties include box office and awards predictions. He has lived in New York City more than half his long life and still thinks it’s probably a nicer place to visit.

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Narrative Short, 8:27, Los Angeles, California

Narrative Short, 19:00, Brooklyn, New York

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Director: Michael Tyburski

Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 12:15 pm Malco (in the Lighter Side block)

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2016 FILMS

A King’s Betrayal

The final 24 hours in the life of a Piñata, as told from the Piñata’s perspective.

A Place Within a Place Experimental, 2:22

Screening: Friday, 5:30 pm, Malco; Saturday, 2:30 pm, Malco (plays in the Fantasy block) An aspiring method actor (Alex Karpovsky) in New York City resorts to medical acting, a part-time gig performing the symptoms of various illnesses for student doctors.

Director: Edward Ramsay-Morin

Affections

Mississippi Premiere

Narrative Short, 16:08, Los Angeles, California

Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (in Experimental block)

Director: Bridey Elliott

Starting as a study in form and variability, this film soon developed into a meditation on isolation, transformation, presence and absence.

It is composed from photographs of 400 exit holes from cicada nymph tunnels.

A Poem Is a Naked Person Special Screening Documentary Feature, 1:30:00 Director: Les Blank Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco (plays with short film Layers) An ineffable mix of unbridled joy and vérité realism, A Poem Is a Naked Person presents the beloved singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell as filmed by documentarian Les Blank between 1972 and 1974.

This singular film about an artist and his community never got an official theatrical release and has attained legendary status.

Now, after more than forty years, it can finally be seen and heard in all its rough beauty.

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Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco (plays in the Relationships block) A comedy about isolation and loneliness, Affections follows a young woman, adrift, seeking intimacy in the most unlikely places.

American Virgin Special Screening Narrative Short, 16:44, Shreveport, Louisiana Director: Tamzin Merchant Screening: Saturday, 2:30 pm, Powerhouse (part of the Best of Louisiana Film Prize block) Allie is desperate to attend Juilliard summer school but her family can’t afford it.

With the help of her older cousin Ty, she decides to sell her most valuable asset…her virginity.

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An Open Secret Special Screening, Documentary Feature, 1:38:00 Director: Amy J. Berg Screening: Saturday, 2:45 pm, Oxford Conference Center An Open Secret is an exposĂŠ of the systemic and ongoing sexual abuse of minors in Hollywood and the investigation into the now infamous Digital Entertainment Network (DEN).

Anatomical Gifts Experimental, 5:58, Durham, North Carolina Director: Michaela O’Brien World Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (in Experimental block) An intensely patterned silent film spanning three generations of palpable minds. All medical imagining is sourced from the related grandmother, mother, and filmmaker.

Araignee Animated Short, 1:22, New York, New York Director: Jeremy Jensen World Premiere Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of Animation block) Two talented spiders compete against each other. Who will be the best weaving master?

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Archie’s Betty

Booker Wright’s Mashup

Documentary Feature, 1:19:00, Boston, Massachusetts

Mississippi Music Video, 2:50

Director: Gerald Peary (OFF Alum: For The Love of Movies (2010))

World Premiere

Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco (plays with The Button King) An independent documentary search for the real-life characters behind Archie comics.

Atchafalaya Narrative Short, 21:00, New Orleans, Louisiana Director: Brian C Miller Richard Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, 6:45 pm, Malco (part of the Southern Shorts block)

Director: George Gross Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Music Video block) A musical video mashup of Booker Wright’s infamous 1966 monologue on NBC News’ TV documentary, Mississippi: A Self Portrait.

Bookin’ Documentary Short, 18:03, Memphis, Tennessee Directors: John Kirkscey and Billie Worley Mississippi Premiere

With his marriage on the rocks, Game Warden Henri Judice is forced to investigate a mysterious call-out deep in the Louisiana swamp before a devastating hurricane tears through the area.

Babysitter Closing Night Film, 1:20:00, Los Angeles, California Director: Morgan Krantz Screening: Sunday, 5:30 pm, Powerhouse A dysfunctional L.A. family hires a mysterious babysitter who changes their lives.

Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 7:00 pm, Malco; (plays with The Keepers) Two Memphis jookers and two ballet dancers fuse their distinct dance styles to a soundtrack that mixes hip-hop beats and cello at a famous Memphis juke joint. Shot in Memphis, Tennessee, at the historic Earnestine & Hazel’s.

Borrowed Time Animation, 6:45, Emeryville, California Director: Lou Hamou-Lhadj, Andrew Coats Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of Animation block)

Blazing Sun Narrative Short, 24:00, Belgium Director: Fred Castadot Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15 am, Malco; Saturday, 6:00 pm, Powerhouse (part of International Shorts block) Under the leaden sky of a summer day, Eric goes to work to defend a great issue. But, blinded by stress, Eric is forgetting the most important thing...

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A weathered sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come flooding back. Faced with his mistake once again, he must find the strength to carry on.

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Art through Space and Time As part of the Oxford Film Festival, we are looking for new ways to explore cinema.

As part of that exploration, please join us at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center (413 South 14th St) from February 15-March 7 to see images and posters from movies made in Mississippi and our special Searching for Hell virtual and physical exhibit.

Two receptions will be held for the show: Friday, February 19 at 11:00 am and a second reception on Tuesday, February 23 as part of the Art Crawl in Oxford. The show will be open during the entire weekend of the film festival as well as regular business hours for the Powerhouse.

Searching For Hell

World’s first full-length documentary film in virtual reality cinema.

Searching For Hell is a feature documentary and transmedia project exploring the theme of contemporary hell through various means of artistic and social expression. The Searching For Hell film starts out as a quest to discover the truth behind the story of digging a hole to Hell – the deepest borehole in the world – in Siberia in the 1980s. From there, it continues across different continents, cultures and ideas, in an attempt to discover what and where Hell is today.

Five film-making teams embarked on a journey to tell the personal and creative stories of people inhabiting contemporary Hells all over the world; the township-turnedtheme-park of Hell in Michigan, a house converted into a morbid vision of Buddhist Hell in Japan, a deadly sulphur lake in Indonesia, and the dark present-day Congo. They are all doors to Hell. This creative and original feature documentary and transmedia project – Searching For Hell – will walk you through those doors, examining Hell’s geographical, cultural and social realities Mississippi Art on Display includes images and posters from music videos, experimental, shorts, documentaries and major motion pictures made in the state: • I Didn’t Do It • 25K • Landscape of the Mind • A Long Journey • Night of the Loup Garou • A Mississippi Love Story • Ocho • Acre Beyond the Rye • Saved by Grace • Ballast • Texas Heart • Chasing the White Dragon • The Youngest One • Dodge Dakota in River • Yalobusha City Dead

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Bottle of Sunshine Mississippi Music Video, 2:58 Director: Damein Wash World Premiere Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Music Video block) A boy, all clean and dressed up, is denied ice cream and forbidden to get dirty by his mother.

She leaves him on the bench as she goes into a shop. Then, a little girl appears.

Bottomless Animation, 2:03, Birmingham, Alabama Director: Véronique Vanblaere Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Animation block) A Belgian woman seeks citizenship in the United States, and finds that her experiences are bottomless.

Broke Dick Dog Narrative Short, 11:00, Memphis, Tennessee Director: G.B. Shannon (OFF Alum: Fresh Skweezed (2012), Pretty Monsters (2013), Songs in the Key of Death (2014), and more) World Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, 6:45 pm, Malco (part of the Southern Shorts block) Three newly acquainted brothers confront their long absent and indifferent father.

Call Me Cappy Narrative Short, 17:34, New Orleans, Louisiana Director: Maja Holzinger Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, 6:45 pm, Malco (part of the Southern Shorts block)

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Wally, a bowling alley manager in his 60s, leads a perfectly uneventful life.

One day, he receives a piece junk of mail informing him that he has won a tropical cruise. Wally slowly becomes more and more intrigued by the idea of seeing the ocean for the first time.

Cannot Predict Now Experimental, 4:38, Cincinnati, Ohio Director: Kimberly Burleigh World Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (in Experimental block) Cannot Predict Now is a short experimental 3D computer animation. It features a spherical form that continuously evolves to perform its function as a predictor of the future.

Children of the Arctic Documentary Feature, 1:33:00, Switzerland Director: Nick Brandestini Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Malco; Sunday, 2:45 pm, Malco (plays with What’s in a Name) Children of the Arctic is a portrait of Native Alaskan teenagers coming of age at America’s northernmost edge. As their climate and culture undergo profound changes, they strive to be both modern American kids and the inheritors of an ancient whaling culture.

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Cut/Chop/Cook

Dixie

Special Screening

Documentary Feature, 1:24:00, Syracuse, New York

Documentary Short, 13:37

Director: Ryan Kelley

Director: Joe York

Mississippi Premiere

Screening: Wednesday, 6:00 pm, Powerhouse

Screening: Friday, 5:30 pm, Malco; Saturday, 4:45 p.m, Conference Center (plays with High Water Mark)

Cut/Chop/Cook profiles Rodney Scott of Scott’s Bar-B-Q in Hemingway, South Carolina. Says Scott, “We only cook with wood and I’m so sure that we only cook with wood because we go out and chop it ourselves.” This film was produced by the University of Mississippi’s Media & Documentary Projects Center & the Southern Foodways Alliance, with funding from the Union Square Hospitality Group.

cyberGenesis

The song “Dixie” has haunted the United States for over 150 years.

Written in 1859 by a blackface minstrel, the song became the national anthem for the confederacy during the American Civil War. Modern musicians, both black and white, have reinterpreted the song and offered new insights into what it means to be an American, and what the future holds for America’s most dangerous song.

Experimental, 13:00

Down Down Down

Director: André Silva

Mississippi Music Video, 3:25

Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (part of experimental block)

Director: Coop Cooper (OFF Alum: The Best Day (2012))

cyberGenesis is a fantastical, animated journey (segments of which have been creatively crowdsourced) that imagines a future creation myth, crafted by cyber consciousness from bits and pieces of humanity’s online legacy.

Delta Flavor

Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of Music Video block) A music video by Steve Kolbus and the Clarksdale Blues Revue. Shot on location, live at Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Short Documentary

Dude Bro Party Massacre III

Director: Blue Magnolia Films

Special Screening

Screening: Wednesday, 6:00 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 10:00 am, Conference Center (part of Food block and Mississippi Humanities Council-sponsored Blue Magnolia Films panel)

Narrative Feature, 1:42:07, Los Angeles, California

Artisan ice cream maker Hugh Balthrop of Sweet Magnolia Ice Cream Co. invents small-batch recipes like Delta Pecan, Muscadine Gelato and Sweet Tea Sorbet, linking small farmers with major markets, and mentoring youth into first time apprenticeships.

Screening: Saturday, 7:45 pm, Powerhouse

Directors: Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon

Behold comedy troupe 5-Second Films’ hysterical twist on 1980’s slasher flicks. In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico’s frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother’s murder at the hands of the serial killer known as Motherface.

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El Portal

Fallen Star AJC & The Envelope Pushers

Experimental, 7:52

Mississippi Music Video, 8:00

Director: J. Robinson

Director: Clay Hardwick (OFF Alum: Loki (2013))

Mississippi Premiere

Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of Music Video block)

Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (part of Experimental block) El Portal is an experimental documentary about the Cedar Motor Lodge in El Portal, California (population: 474). Combining vintage analog home videos with footage shot this summer, the film spans twenty five years, weaving together the complicated and tragic story of the lodge with the filmmaker’s family history.

Embers Narrative Feature, 1:25:29 Director: Claire Carré Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 8:30 pm, Malco; Sunday, 3:15 pm, Malco (plays with Mother’s Day) After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories explore how we might learn, love and communicate in a future that has no past.

OxFilm Society OxFilm is a collaborative effort between the Oxford Film Festival and Yoknapatawpha Arts Council to enhance film as a cultural, artistic and economic driver for the Lafayette County, Oxford and University communities.

OxFilm seeks to promote education and provide tools to support local filmmakers while encouraging films to be made in our community.

Through your generous support the community can participate in workshops and panels and filmmakers can rent affordable filmmaking equipment and have access to top end post production facilities.

Memberships start at $40 a year for students to $200 for a lifetime membership with free equipment rentals.

Where: All OxFilm Society events take place at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center at 413 South 14th Street in Oxford, Mississippi, or at the Oxford Film Festival office at 9 Industrial Park Drive, Suite 152.

To join as a member, see our monthly workshops, donate or rent film equipment, visit oxfilmsociety.com or contact us at oxfilmsociety@gmail.com

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Fallen Star is what happens when you make it to the top. This music video combines three original songs into a cinematic narrative, following AJC into a world of bitter famedom. Of course, making a deal at the crossroads has its costs.

Fiddler’s Green Mississippi Music Video, 5:55 Director: Thad Lee (OFF Alum: Bill Lilly Builds a Greenhouse (2011) and more) Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of Music Video block) A song about a mysterious afterworld for people who are too bad for Heaven and too good for Hell.

Finding Cleveland Mississippi Documentary, 12:24 Director: Larissa Lam Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 5:15 pm, Conference Center; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Mississippi Documentary block) Finding Cleveland is a documentary short film that follows Charles Chiu and his family on an emotional journey as they take a trip to Cleveland, Mississippi to visit the grave site of Charles’ father, KC Lou.

Fitting the Description in North Portland Documentary Short, 25:44, Portland, Oregon Director: Jarratt Taylor (OFF Alum: The New Debutantes (2012)) Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15 am, Conference Center; Saturday 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Documentary Short block)

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Recently, the students of Roosevelt High School received a wake up call after a fellow student was tased by the police in the St. John’s neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. The stories they had been hearing about police violence weren’t just news stories from another town about people they didn’t know. These events were now happening in their backyard.

Flash Narrative Short, 7:00, Spain Director: Alberto Ruiz Rojo Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 5:30 pm Malco; Saturday, 2:30 pm Malco (plays in the Fantasy block) When a man looks at the photo strip he just took of himself in a photo booth, he cannot believe what he sees

Forced Move Mississippi Narrative Feature, 1:19:00, Water Valley, Mississippi Director: Tony Bloodworth World Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:30 pm, Conference Center; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco A man discovers a series of brutal murders while on his daily jog. Realizing his home is next in the path of the killers, he races with all he’s got to save his family

Freedom Fighters Mississippi Narrative, 16:53 Director: Wade Patterson Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Malco; Sunday, 10:30 am, Malco (part of the Mississippi Narrative block) The newest recruit of a right-wing militia finds himself at odds with the charismatic leader when the group tries to take a government official hostage.

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Fulfilament

Helen Turner, Pitmaster

Animation, 7:33, United Kingdom

Special Screening

Director: Rhiannon Evans

Documentary Short, 14:01

Mississippi Premiere

Director: Joe York

Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of Animation block)

Screening: Wednesday, 6:00 pm, Powerhouse Some folks think barbecue is a man’s world. But in Brownsville, Tennessee, it’s synonymous with a woman named Helen Turner. Mrs. Turner was the winner of the SFA’s 2012 Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame Award.

Travel around the brain with a little, lost thought and discover what it takes to make a great idea.

Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker Special Screening

Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi

Documentary Feature, 1:03:00

Documentary Feature, 1:15:00, Atlanta, Georgia

Director: Joanne Grant

Director: Neal Broffman

Screening: Friday, 1:45 pm, Powerhouse

Mississippi Premiere

Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker, a friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, played in shaping the American civil rights movement. By looking at the 1960s from the perspective of Baker, the “godmother of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,” Fundi adds an essential understanding of the U.S. civil rights movement.

Screening: Friday 11:30 am, Powerhouse, Saturday 12:15 pm, Malco (plays with Viola: A Mother’s Story of Juvenile Justice) A family’s search for their missing son and the hunt for suspects in a terror attack tragically converge in Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi, a film about truth and community in the age of social media.

High Water Mark

Golden Shot

Documentary Short, 3:12

Animation, 8:40, Turkey

Director: Tom Varisco

Director: Gokalp Gonen

Mississippi Premiere

Mississippi Premiere

Screening: Friday, 5:30 pm, Malco; Saturday 4:45 pm, Conference Center (plays with Dixie)

Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of Animation block) Rusty machines, living in their small houses, imagine that the sun will come and take them to the sky someday. A small light keeps them alive and dreaming. But one of the machines wants to see the sun itself and has a plan for that.

This short film contrasts sound recordings of the media’s dire Hurricane Katrina coverage with stunning views of a rebuilt New Orleans 10 years after.

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Hit & Run

Hum

Narrative Short, 6:40

Animation, 8:30, Orange, California

Director: Jordan Liebowitz (OFF Alum: Bingo Night (2015))

Director: Tom Teller

World Premiere

Regional Premiere

Screening: Friday, 5:30 pm, Malco; Saturday, 2:30 pm, Malco (part of the Fantasy block)

Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of Animation block)

After a car accident disrupts their plans, two low level drug dealers scramble to dispose of the evidence only to discover their unwitting victim may be far more dangerous than they first imagined.

A solitary dish-washing robot living out his life in the back room of a restaurant is enlightened to the world that exists beyond his four walls. With the help of a small friend he breaks free of confinement to pursue his dream of exploration.

Honey and the Hive

Hut Hut

Special Screening

Special Screening

Narrative Short, 12:00, Shreveport, Louisiana

Narrative Short, Shreveport, Louisiana

Director: Austin Alward

Directors: Michael Allmon and Courtney Sandifer

Screening: Saturday, 2:30 pm, Powerhouse (part of the Best of Louisiana Film Prize block)

Screening: Saturday, 2:30 pm, Powerhouse (part of the Best of Louisiana Film Prize block)

An adopted child uses her imagination to carve out a place for herself in the family where she feels she doesn’t belong.

Mike, a pre-teen scruffy loner, meets his neighbor, Bubba, who interrupts his solitude with unexpected companionship and life lessons.

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Intersection Narrative Short, 19:40, Santa Monica, California Director: Brendan Beachman (OFF Alum: Stasis (2009)) Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 5:30 pm, Malco; Saturday, 2:30 pm, Malco (part of the Fantasy block) Two road construction workers flag for nonexistent vehicles on a remote intersection. The monotony of their day is smashed by the violent arrival of an object from the sky.

Jackdaw Special Screening Narrative Short, 14:50, Shreveport, Louisiana Director: Travis Champagne Screening: Saturday, 2:30 pm, Powerhouse (part of the Best of Louisiana Film Prize block)

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A father mourns on the one year anniversary of his wife’s disappearance.

Jonathan Demme Presents: Made in Texas Special Screening, 1:43:05, Texas Screening: Saturday 12:30 pm, Powerhouse Jonathan Demme Presents: Made in Texas is a series of six restored short films from Austin,Texas made during the high energy, punk rock ‘70s and ‘80s. Demme originally curated this program in 1981 and the films have been restored and presented as they were from the original screening.

Kingdom of Garbage Narrative Short, 9:00, Iraq Director: Yasir Kareem Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15 am, Malco; Saturday, 6:00 pm Powerhouse (part of International Shorts block) Zahraa dreams of going to school. Instead she and her brother, Hassan, must scour a landfill site for valuable materials to provide for their poor family, competing against the other scavengers.

When a trade between Zahraa and the self proclaimed ‘King of Garbage’ goes wrong, the sibling’s relationship is tested to breaking point – can the two overcome Zahraa’s innocent mistake?

Kudzu Kings 20th Anniversary Mississippi Music Video, 17:34 Director: Tate Moore World Premiere Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Music Video block) Kudzu Kings celebrate 20 years as a band at a special one-night show at the Lyric Oxford.

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Ladies of the House Narrative Feature, 1:33:00, New York Director: John Wildman Screening: Friday, 10:00 pm, Malco The Ladies of the House follows the events surrounding a birthday outing with two brothers and a friend which turns into a horrific fight for survival after they become trapped in a house with a “family” of malevolent women who enjoy a pin-up lifestyle and a special diet.

Last Night

Life Is Super GR8 provides a glimpse into the history and workings of the Super Gr8 Film Festival in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

The first festival of its kind, each year Super Gr8 gives over 40 local filmmakers the rare opportunity to shoot either a color or black/white super 8mm film using vintages cameras. Features interviews with festival founders and a diverse cast of filmmakers, including Elwood “Trip” Madison, the poster designer for the 2016 Oxford Film Festival.

Little Sticker Narrative Short, 5:00, Savannah, Georgia

Mississippi Narrative, 13:42

Director: Michael Jackson Chaney

Director: Michael Ewing

World Premiere

Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Malco; Sunday, 10:30 am, Malco (part of the Mississippi Narrative block)

Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, 6:45 pm, Malco (part of the Southern Shorts block)

A late night bar “conversation” among three friends reveals, in surprising ways, that actions have consequences.

A couple arrives home after a tragic loss. As they process their situation they engage in very different methods of grieving and struggle over how to address the remnants of a kitschy family icon. Ultimately they come to terms with the possibility of reconciliation and remembrance.

Layers Mississippi Documentary, 12:45 Director: Christina Huff

Living with HIV

Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco (plays with A Poem is a Naked Person)

Mississippi Documentary, 28:09

Two Mississippians talk about their lives as artists.

Claire Whitehurst talks about her art and her stylistic choices, while Jonathan Kent Adams talks about his struggles with his homosexual identity within his art. Using layers within their art is a very big theme for both artists, connecting these two talented artist’s stories into one narrative.

Screening: Friday, 5:15 pm, Conference Center; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Mississippi Documentary block)

Life Is Super Gr8

Director: Kathryn A. Rodenmeyer (OFF Alum: Uprooted (2005))

Mississippi, the ‘buckle’ of the Bible Belt, ranks 7th in the U.S. for prevalence of HIV infection. Young African American men are the fastest growing group to become infected with HIV. In Living with HIV, those infected with HIV share their stories and how they are living with this incurable condition.

Documentary Short, 14:58, Harrisonburg, Virginia Director: Wade Vanover (OFF Alum: Repeater (2015)) Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15 am, Conference Center; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Documentary Short block)

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February 17-21, 2016

F r i d a y

Shelter on Van Buren (Free) The Round Table 6:00 - 9:00 pm Oxford Conference Center 1:00 - 2:45 pm Animation Block Music Video Block and 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Tate Moore Concert • Layers

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Perfect Houseguest The Present Araignee Olilo Bottomless (Q&A) Fulfilament Golden Shot Hum The Seafarer and the Moonlight Borrowed Time One Minute for Katrina Needle Town The Iraqi Superman They Crawl Amongst Us

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Preacherman Ruremarm Fallen Star Booker Wright’s Mashup The Happy Song Rock Me Slow One Star Delta Night Women and Work Fiddler’s Green Kudzu Kings 20th Anniversary Bottle of Sunshine Ole Miss Rebel Blues Down, Down, Down

Powerhouse Community Arts Center 11:00 am - Noon (Free) • Art Reception

• A Poem Is A Naked Person

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

11:15 am - 1:15 pm BLOCK: Doc Shorts • • • • • • •

• Viola: A Mother’s Story of Juvenile Justice • Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi

Spearhunter Fitting the Description House is Innocent New Orleans Sazerac The Button King Vancouver Zoetrope Life Is Super Gr8

1:45 pm - 2:50 pm • Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm Block: Relationship Shorts

3:30 - 5:00 pm • Forced Move

5:15 pm - 7:15 pm BLOCK: Mississippi Doc Shorts • • • • •

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 4 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm Panel: Casting Characters 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm Panel: Producing Films in Mississippi

Finding Cleveland Locked Out The Black Definition Living with HIV Mo About Joe

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Spare Rooms Affections Take with Water The Guests Preggo Losing It The Bravest, the Boldest The Favor

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm • Stockholm • The Missing Girl

8:00 pm - 9:45 pm

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

• Slip, Tumble and Slide

• Spaghettiman

Shelter on Van Buren

Oxford Conference Center

Powerhouse Community Arts Center

1:00 pm - 2:45 pm BLOCK: Experimental Films

10:00 am - Noon PANEL: Creative Mississippi: Documenting Small Town Stories

9:00 am - Noon (free) Kid Movie Making Camp

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Cannot Predict Now A Place Within A Place cyberGenesis El Portal Phantom Limbs Swallowed Whole The Puddle On Surgery XO Anatomical Gifts The Plastic Bag You Can Stay Here River Moon Black Birds Take the Bus on a Hot Summer Day

Free courtesy of the Mississippi Humanities Council • Roots • Yalo • Delta Flavor • Stitch

12:15 pm - 2:15 pm (Free) PANEL: How to be a child actor: Does your kid have what it takes?

2:45 pm - 4:15 pm • An Open Secret

2:30 pm - 4:15 pm BLOCK: Best of Louisiana Film Prize • • • • •

American Virgin Honey and the Hive Hut Hut Jackdaw The Bespoke Tailoring of Mister Bellamy

• What Lola Wants

• Dixie

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm BLOCK: International Shorts

7:15 pm - 8:30 pm Panel: Actors Behind the Camera

9 pm - Midnight Awards Ceremony @ The Lyric (Required Party Upgrade or VIP pass only)

Hell Virtual Reality Film @ Powerhouse, all weekend

Wednesday

February 17, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Food + Film @ Powerhouse

(Requires Separate Ticket) • Oxford Canteen • Cut/Chop/Cook • Vish • Yalo • Ready to Roll • Delta Flavor • Helen’s Turner, Pitmaster

Thursday

February 18, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

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• Made in Texas

4:15 pm - 6:00 pm

4:45 pm - 6:45 pm • High Water Mark

12:30 pm - 2:15 pm

Thacker Mountain Radio + Opening Night + Community Film @ The Lyric (Free)

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The Light Thief Blazing Sun Kingdom of Garbage Roubado

7:45 pm - 9:30 pm • Dude Bro Party Massacre III

s u n d a y February 17-21, 2016 Powerhouse Community Arts Center 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Documentary Feature Winner 12:45 pm - 2:45 pm Narrative Feature Winner 3:00 pm - 5:15 pm • West of Elvis • Once a Month

Shorts Winners

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm CLOSING NIGHT FILM • Babysitter

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 3

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 2

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 1

11:00 am - 12:45 pm BLOCK: Experimental Films

11:15 am - 12:45 pm BLOCK: International Narrative Shorts

11 am - 12:45 pm

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Cannot Predict Now A Place within A Place cyberGenesis El Portal Phantom Limbs Swallowed Whole The Puddle

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On Surgery XO Anatomical Gifts The Plastic Bag You Can Stay Here River Moon Black Birds Take the Bus on a Hot Summer Day

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • What’s in a Name

• Children of the Arctic

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm BLOCK: Southern Shorts • • • •

Atchafayala Call me Cappy Broke Dick Dog Nirvana

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Tumble Dry Low Three Fingers Little Sticker Paperous

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm • High Water Mark • Dixie

7:45 pm - 9:15 pm

• The Light Thief • Blazing Sun

• Kingdom of Garbage • Roubado

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm • The Cut • Archie’s Betty

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm BLOCK: Fantasy Shorts

The Sibling Code Snow Day A King’s Betrayal Twisted Si

Til Death Last Night The Faucet The Gift Stargrassle Paranormal Freedom Fighters

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm • Hit and Run • Actor Seeks Role • Zero

7:45 pm - 9:30 pm BLOCK: The Lighter Side • • • • •

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm BLOCK: Mississippi narrative Shorts • • • • • •

• Sinking of Sozopol

• Flash • Intersection • Night of the Slasher

• What Lola Wants

• The Week

5:45 pm - 8:15 pm • Saved by Grace (followed by A Conversation with Joey Lawrence 7:15 - 8:15 pm)

8:30 pm -10:30 pm • • • • •

Sweetly Broken Scrabble Preggo Put Down Red Thunder

• Mothers Day • Embers

10:00 pm - 11:30 pm

• Bookin’ • The Keepers

• Ladies of the House

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 3

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 2

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 1

10:00 am - Noon BLOCK: Relationship Shorts

10:00 am - Noon

10 am - 11:45 am

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Spare Room Affections Take with Water The Guests

• Preggo • Losing It • The Bravest, the Boldest • The Favor

12:15 pm - 2:15 pm • Viola: A Mother’s Story of Juvenile Justice • Help us Find Sunil Tripathi

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm • Stockholm

• The Missing Girl

4:45 pm - 6:45 pm BLOCK: Doc Shorts • • • •

Spearhunter • The Button King Fitting the Description • Vancouver Zoetrope The House Is Innocent • Life Is Super Gr8 New Orleans Sazerac

7:00 pm - 8:45 pm • Bookin’

• The Keepers

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 3 10:45 am - 12:45 pm 12:45 pm - 2:30 pm BLOCK: Animation Perfect Houseguest The Present Araignee Olilo Bottomless Fulfilament Golden Shot Hum

• Archie’s Betty

12:15 pm - 2:15 pm BLOCK: The Lighter Side • • • • •

The Sibling Code Snow Day A King’s Betrayal Twisted Si

Sweetly Broken Scrabble Preggo Put Down Red Thunder

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm BLOCK: Fantasty Shorts • Flash • Intersection • Night of the Slasher

Preacherman Ruremarm Fallen Star Booker Wright’s Mashup • The Happy Song • Rock Me Slow • One Star Delta Night

• The Seafarer and the Moonlight • Borrowed Time • One Minute for Katrina • Needle Town • The Iraqi Superman • They Crawl Amongst Us

2:45 pm - 4:45 pm • What’s in a Name • Children of the Arctic

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Atchafayala Call me Cappy Broke Dick Dog Nirvana

• The Week

2:15 pm - 4:15 pm • The Armor of Light

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm • The Lion’s Mouth Opens

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm • Hit and Run • Actor Seeks Role • Zero

4:45 pm - 6:30 pm BLOCK: Mississippi Music Videos • • • •

• Layers • Forced Move

Noon - 2:00 pm • • • • •

• Women and Work • Fiddlers Green • Kudzu Kings 20th Anniversary • Bottle of Sunshine • Ole Miss Rebel Blues • Down, Down, Down

• Texas Heart

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 4 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm Panel: Independent Black Film Collective 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm Panel: “Get film critics to review you”

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 1

6:45 pm - 8:45 pm BLOCK: Southern Shorts

• The Sinking of Sozopol

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• The Cut

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Tumble Dry Low Three Fingers Little Sticker Paperous

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, Screen 2 11:00 am - 12:45 pm PANEL: Animation 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm PANEL: Dissecting Hollywood’s Diversity Problem 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm • LongLeaf: The Heart of Pine

10:30 am - 12:30 pm BLOCK: Mississippi Narrative Shorts • Til Death • Last Night • The Faucet

• The Gift • Stargrassie Paranormal • Freedom Fighters

12:45 pm - 2:45 pm BLOCK: Mississippi Documentary Shorts • Finding Cleveland • Locked Out • The Black

Definition • Living with HIV • Mo About Joe

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm • Mother’s Day • Embers

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Locked Out: A Mississippi Success Story

Mo’ About Joe

Mississippi Documentary, 26:53

Mississippi Documentary, 24:51

Director: Sean W. Malone

Director: Tim O’Grady

Screening: Friday, 5:15 pm, Conference Center; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Mississippi Documentary block)

World Premiere

Locked Out chronicles the struggles and success of Melony Armstrong, an entrepreneur who fought state restrictions to become the first professional African hair braider in Mississippi. Her victory struck down laws which required aspiring natural hair professionals to endure years of expensive licensing that only benefited the cosmetology schools and didn’t teach anything about hair braiding or natural hair.

LongLeaf: The Heart of Pine

Screening: Friday, 5:15 pm, Conference Center; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Mississippi Documentary block) “Outsider” artist Joe Wrenn of Charleston, Mississippi is featured in this 25-minute documentary. We glimpse into his life and his amazing and storied paintings.

Mother’s Day Narrative Short, 6:51, Hicksville, New York Director: Jeff Tan

Special Screening

Mississippi Premiere

Documentary Feature, 53:43, Oxford, Mississippi

Screening: Friday, 8:30 pm, Malco; Sunday, 3:15 pm, Malco (plays with Embers)

Director: Rex Jones Screening: Sunday, 3:00 pm, Malco A cultural and natural history of the South’s ancient primeval forest. Towering stands of old-growth longleaf pine (pinus palustris) once covered over 90 million acres while stretching from southern Virginia to eastern Texas. Today, the total acreage is about two million, with only about two thousand of that considered old growth.

Tragedy forces Mary (Academy Award Winner Melissa Leo) and her son Jay (Gabriel Furman) to say goodbye forever.

Needle Town Animation, 3:00, Norway Director: Kaspar Synnevåg, Henrik Hylland Uhlving

Losing It

Regional Premiere

Narrative Short, 19:32, Savannah, Georgia Director: Nathaniel Katzma Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco (part of the Relationships block) Mackenzie and Alexander discover they are pregnant while on tour with their band and are forced to make a decision that feels far beyond their years.

Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of Animation block) Heroin addict Cato is stealing books to fund his drug habit. He has fallen in love with Goth Girl, who works at the local book shop. But the mall cop Crab Claw is about to make his life difficult.

Join us Sunday for the best of the fest showcasing the Hoka award winners and Best of Oxford FF winner West of Elvis with special food trucks on site!

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Night of the Slasher

Ole Miss Rebel Blues

Narrative Short, 11:16

Mississippi Music Video, 4:52

Director: Shant Hamassian

Directors: Nancy Maria Balach, Katie McLaughlin

Screening: Friday, 5:30 pm, Malco; Saturday, 2:30 pm, Malco (part of the Fantasy block) A ‘shot-in-one-take’ slasher film about a teenage girl who must commit horror movie sins by drinking alcohol, doing drugs, and having sex in order to lure a masked killer and exact revenge.

Nirvana: A Short Film About Lung Cancer

World Premiere Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of Music Video block) The “Ole Miss Rebel Blues” celebrates music, football, and the social culture of Oxford, Mississippi. This Mississippi music video was created, produced, and performed by established artists (University of Mississippi faculty and alumni), who worked side by side with current UM students and children from the Oxford community.

Narrative Short, 15:54, Chattahoochee, Georgia Director: J. Michael Hicks (OFF Alum: Picture Show (2014)) Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, 6:45 pm, Malco (part of the Southern shorts block) Inspired by the director’s own personal journey. After running away from her home, a young cancer patient meets a grieving widower in a dilapidated cemetery. Lost in their own tragedies, the two converse about life, death and the spiritual self.

Smile Y’all Photo Booth

...in the Malco lobby!

Feel like a movie star in the lobby photo booth provided by Smile Y’all.

Olilo Animation, 5:40, Brooklyn, New York Director: Ao Li Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of Animation block) Olilo is a 2D animation that tells the story of an introverted girl held captive by her own semi-transparent personal space. Created through a combination of traditional frame-by-frame and digital drawing as well as key frame animation, the film focuses on love and its capacity to transform all things.

On Surgery Experimental, 7:36, Bloomington, Indiana Directors: Russell Sheaffer, Aaron Michael Smith Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (part of Experimental block) The visuals for On Surgery are an attempt to replicate the physical process of bone surgery on the body of 16mm film stock. By wetting raw, unprocessed 16mm color negative film and then separating out the photosensitive emulsion from the base of the film using a medical scalpel and then reapplying the layers, the only images visible are representative of the scars left on the film.

Take a printed photo home but don’t forget to check it out on Facebook as well!

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February 17-21, 2016

Once A Month (and Behind the Scenes documentary) Mississippi Narrative Short/Doc Short, 25:00, Oxford, Mississippi Director: Alice Walker World Premiere, Community Film Project Screening: Thursday, 7:30 pm, Lyric Theater; Sunday, 3:00 pm, Powerhouse Tom and Tina have their friends Bob and Betty over once a month for dinner, but this is the first time they have gotten together since Bob’s death. When Betty arrives, Tom and Tina realize that the evening may be a little more “lively” than expected.

One Minute for Katrina Animation, 1:00, United Kingdom Directors: Serafima Serafimova, Max Halley Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of Animation block) One Minute for Katrina marks the 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The animation offers people a chance to reflect and remember those who lost their lives and many who continue to be affected.

One Star Delta Night Mississippi Music Video, 3:40 Director: Jason Rochelle World Premiere Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of Music Video block)

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Oxford Canteen Special Screening Documentary Short, 5:44 Directors: Brett Mizelle and Heather Richie Screening: Wednesday, 6:00 pm, Powerhouse Oxford Canteen profiles the Oxford eatery of the same name. Working in a 10×15foot kitchen (a converted storage closet) in the Lyric Theater, chef-owner Corbin Evans turns out lunch specials like brisket grilled cheese, seasonal salads, and New Orleans–style ya-ka-mein. He serves the fare through a window, and diners can take their orders to go or sit at cantilevered tables drilled into the exterior wall of the building.

Paperous Narrative Short, 8:11, Savannah, Georgia

A cameraless film created from animated MRI scans to evoke an enveloping world of light breaking upon the mind. Peering deep into our psychic home, Phantom Limbs engineers a link between inner space and the human spirit. Set to music by Seattle band, St. Kilda.

Preacherman Mississippi Music Video, 7:04 Director: Calum Macdiarmid Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Music Video block) Music video featuring Melody Gardot, based on the story of civil rights hero Emmett Till.

Director: Miles Carby Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, 6:45 pm, Malco (part of the Southern Shorts block)

Preggo

Michael, unnoticed, but everobservant, is going through a transformation brought on by the divorce of his parents. In this coming of age adventure, he fights to preserve the only life he knows.

Director: Kristin Slaysman

Narrative Short, 7:52, Los Angeles, California Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco (part of the Relationships block) Sam is thirty, single, broke and nine months pregnant in NYC. So... everything is fine.

Perfect Houseguest Animation 1:35, Baltimore, Maryland Directors: Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Animation block) A house is visited by a clean, organized, wellmannered guest.

Phantom Limbs Experimental, 2:44, Seattle, Washington Director: Reed O’Beirne Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (part of the Experimental block)

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Put Down Narrative Short, Run 10:00, United Kingdom Director: Rick Limentani Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 12:15 pm, Malco (part of the Lighter Side block) John is a socially awkward man in a downward spiral of debt, until a lucky accident propels him into a new career as a black-market pet exterminator. In these difficult times, some families can no longer afford a pet.

John has some inventive ways to help them.

February 17-21, 2016

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Ready to Roll Special Screening Documentary Short, 1:39 Directors: Molly Nemer and Alexandra Lampert Screening: Wednesday, 6:00 pm, Powerhouse In Ready to Roll you’ll meet Earline Hall, formerly of the beloved Biscuit Pit in Grenada, Mississippi, and now the biscuit maven at My Guys in Oxford. It’s hard to describe Ms. Hall’s biscuits except to say that they are just right in every way, albeit petite enough that you’re going to want at least two. She attributes their taste to a mixture of sweet milk and buttermilk.

River Moon Black Birds Experimental, 7:20 Director: Gloria Chung (OFF Alum: Take 5 with Memory V (2015)) World Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (part of the Experimental block) An experimental documentary on recent hurricane landfalls (2009-2014, eastern seaboard of the United States). “An alarm sounds over a quiet river. Supermoons are burning.

Blackouts across the city. Storm winds carry tropical birds.”

Rock Me Slow Mississippi Music Video, 3:40

Holly Springs conservationists awaken magic, history and a sense of “place” during the Strawberry Plains Audubon Hummingbird Festival, only to uncover the startling roots of ecological resilience in the heart of community.

Roubado Narrative Short, 18:00, France and United States Director: Erica A. Watson Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15 am, Malco; Saturday, 6:00 pm, Powerhouse (part of the International Shorts block) Roubado tells the story of Alain Castelo, an introverted Afro-Portuguese teen growing up in the south of France. As he suffers his parents’ recent breakup, the only solace he can muster is his penchant for photography. When his mother’s new live-in boyfriend crosses the line, his eyes are opened to the world and he can no longer hide behind the viewfinder of his vintage camera.

Ruremarm Mississippi Music Video, 3:12 Director: Josephus Martin Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm ,The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Music Video Block) Skipp Coon makes the streets his congregation.

Director: Edward Valibus (OFF Alum: Songs in the Key of Death (2014)) Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Music Video Block) Alone with her just her thoughts, a bottle of bourbon, and her music, Faith Evans Ruch dwells on heartbreak and sorrow.

Saved by Grace Special Screening Narrative Feature, Mississippi Director: Johnny Remo

Roots Special Screening Mississippi Documentary Screening: Saturday, 10:00 am, Conference Center (part of Mississippi Humanities Council panel on Blue Magnolia Flms)

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Screening: Friday, 5:45 pm, Malco (followed by A Conversation with Joey Lawrence) A retired police officer, despondent over the loss of his family, contemplates a dramatic decision which will change his life forever, until he meets a mysterious woman who, through her personal stories, gives him a reason to re-examine what is most important to him.

February 17-21, 2016

Scrabble Narrative Short, 11:25, Switzerland Director: Cristian Sulser Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 12:15 pm, Malco (part of the Lighter Side block) Scrabble addresses the secret desire to break out of the routine of a loveless relationship and illuminates with irony the depths of humanity behind a traditional façade – using a simple board game.

Searching For Hell Special Screening Directors: Pawel Nazaruk, Tomasz Adamski, Darek Barecki, Yuki Nakamura, Gloria Kurnik, James Kenney Executive Producer: Pawel Nazaruk/d!film studio Screening: February 17-21 at Powerhouse Gallery. Hours of Operation are 9:00 am until last movie ends in evenings.

Hell exists. It’s just not what you think it is. The world’s first full-length documentary film in virtual reality cinema.

Si Narrative Short, 4:34, New Orleans, Louisiana Director: Samantha Smith Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 12:15 pm, Malco (part of the Lighter Side block)

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Making Movies Oxford Film Festival’s Community Film

by Allie Evander

The Oxford Film Festival celebrates the art of independent cinema from across the globe while also focusing on moviemaking and enhancing the arts right here in Oxford and North Mississippi. The Film Festival holds monthly events, which culminate in our annual four-day film festival each February. The festival exhibits over 100 quality films from across the globe and has been praised for its hospitality. The festival screens short and feature-length films in both showcase and competition settings, hosts panel discussions on issues in contemporary filmmaking, and invites the filmmakers to interact with the audience at a number of social events. Oxford Film Festival also supports moviemaking in the area through the production of the community film, which is shown every year at the festival. They also support moviemaking through the funding of OxFilm Society, which loans equipment to filmmakers filming in Oxford.

But in 2011, the Oxford Film Festival became movie producers too, with its first ever Community Film project. It is designed to showcase local talent and bring the filmmaking experience to a local level. Each year’s community film is written, directed, and edited by local filmmakers, cast with local actors both professional and non-professional, and staffed by local volunteers. Countless members of the community pitch in each year b behind and in front of the camera to make the film a reality.

The final product then premieres at the next Oxford Film Festival.

“The community film helps the festival to support local filmmakers and provide opportunities for the community to not just enjoy watching movies but being part of them,” says Melanie Addington, the executive director of Oxford Film Festival.

This year’s community film is Once a Month which was first adapted into a Ten Minute Play by Kate Leslie from Oxford author Tom Franklin’s short story. The story is about two couples who have a monthly dinner that is changed by a recent funeral. Once a Month will premier at this year’s Oxford Film Festival which is February 14th-16th.

Alice Walker is the director of Once a

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Month. Walker is an active member of the arts community in Oxford and has a long history in the performing arts. She is an actor, singer, artist, director, and producer and has served as president of the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, as a member of the Board of Directors for VOX Press, and as managing producer for Theatre Oxford. She has appeared in three of the OFF community films and is making her film directorial debut with Once a Month.

Derek Brown is the editor of Once a Month. Along with lifelong friend Nazario Bell, Brown established Life Long Productions in 2011 to take their passion for video, photography and all things creative to the marketplace.

Danny Klimetz is the director of photography for Once a Month. Klimetz is an artist specializing in storytelling. Typically focused on still photography and couples, he enjoys the time he gets to work on other passion projects in film.

Previous Community Film projects have been The Hanging of Big Todd Wade (2011), The Show Must Go On (2012), Ten (2013), and Killer Kudzu (2014).

The Hanging of Big Todd Wade was written and directed by Micah Ginn. The film is set in Oxford, 1893, and is about how “Big Todd” Wade faces the gallows for a crime he did not

commit. Will his alibi be revealed before it is too late?

The Show Must Go On was written and directed by Matthew Graves. During a performance of a community theater’s murder mystery play, an actor is actually killed. With the state arts commissioner in attendance to determine future funding for the theater, the cast and crew have no choice but to continue with the show.

Ten is a documentary short by Joe York.

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Oxford Film Festival, the University of Mississippi’s Media and Documentary Projects Center teamed up with the festival to create a documentary film starring 10-year-olds from the Oxford/Lafayette County community discussing the joys and trials of being 10 years old.

Killer Kudzu was written by Felicity Flesher (winner of Oxford Film Festival’s first ever Screenplay Contest), and directed by Meaghin Burke. When Oxford is attacked by a mysterious botanical menace, the townsfolk must work together to save the city from bumbling bureaucrats and botanical terror.

The Community Film enhances the arts in Oxford not only through local filmmaking but residents of Oxford have the opportunity to be apart of something big.

February 17-21, 2016

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Narrative Feature, 1:36:00 Director: Max Myers Screening: Friday, 8:00 pm, Powerhouse A family struggles to help the father (Scott Wilson) stop drinking and regain the close ties he once had to his sons and to his wife (Katherine Ross). With love, faith and music the come together as a family.

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Snow Day Narrative Short, 3:06, Memphis, Tennessee Director: Drew Smith (OFF Alum: Book of Noah (2008) and Being Awesome (2014))

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Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 12:15 pm, Malco (in the Lighter Side block) Nothing’s more exciting to a kid in Memphis than the one snow day they get a year. But when a bully tries to ruin it for one five-year old, he decides to get even.

Inspiring Diversity and Exploration

Spaghetti Man Special Screening Narrative Feature, 1:28:00, Los Angeles, California Director: Mark Potts World Premiere Screening: Friday, 8:00 pm, Conference Center Clark doesn’t care about you. He doesn’t care about the world. He barely cares about himself.

But after an incident with an old bowl of spaghetti and a malfunctioning microwave, he becomes a superhero that can fight crime with the power of spaghetti. However, you have to pay him.

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Spare Rooms Narrative Short, 17:00, Baltimore, Maryland Director: Matthew T. Bowden Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco (part of the Relationships block) 1985. The rural Midwest.

When a same-sex family’s teenage son, Will, invites his friend Walker to stay overnight, Will’s parents, Rae and Marie, create elaborate plans to appear in the closet. But when those plans backfire, they discover the key to a good lie is in its details.

Spearhunter Documentary Short, 13:50, Boston, Massachusetts Directors: Adam Roffman, Luke Poling Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15 am, Conference Center; Saturday 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Documentary Short block) Deep in the wilds of rural Alabama, a spear-hunter proclaims himself the world’s greatest and erects a museum dedicated to his own obsession. In this atmospheric and darkly funny documentary, an offbeat cast of lovers, acolytes, and critics of the megalomaniacal spear-hunter remember his distinctive tactics both for killing and for leaving a legacy.

Stagrassle Paranormal Mississippi Narrative, 27:50 Director: Glenn Payne (OFF Alum: A Horror Movie (2015) and more)

An Oxford-Tupelo company specializing in bespoke, custom-raw-denim, helps to revive the garment industry in northeast Mississippi, tapping local talent, and promising growth and job creation for Mississippi.

Stockholm Narrative Short, 9:00, Spain Director: Álvaro Martín Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 5:30 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 2:30 pm, Malco (plays with The Missing Girl ) Writing a school report about your father’s occupation can be a challenge, especially when his work is disturbing.

Swallowed Whole Experimental, 4:06, Ann Arbor, Michigan Director: Heidi Kumao Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (in Experimental block) Swallowed Whole is a somber, animated, experimental film about surviving extreme isolation and physical limitations as a result of traumatic injury.

Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Malco; Sunday, 10:30 am, Malco (part of the Mississippi Narrative block)

Sweetly Broken

Welcome to Stagrassle! Meet the Colonel, Penny, Enzo and Bernice, their friends and foes, the ghosts that haunt them and Larry, the man that documents their misadventures.

Regional Premiere

Stitch Special Screening Mississippi Documentary

Narrative Short, 5:25, Czech Republic Director: Chung Lam Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 12:15 pm, Malco (part of the Lighter Side block) It’s what happens when a boy puppet gets separated from the girl puppet of his love and the lengths he goes to to reunite with her.

Screening: Saturday, 10:00 am, Conference Center (part of Mississippi Humanities Council panel on Blue Magnolia Films)

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Take the Bus on a Hot Summer Day Experimental, 4:40 Director: Gloria Chung (OFF Alum: Take 5 with Memory V (2015)) World Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (in Experimental block) A bus ride through Midtown. A reverie of blurred colors, kaleidoscopic movements and muffled sounds on a hot summer day in the city.

Take With Water Narrative Short, 9:55, Savannah, Georgia Director: Tara O’Sullivan Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 10:00 am Malco (part of the Relationships block) After her first one night stand, Emma navigates the awkward and unfamiliar world of casual sex and learns to embrace her sexuality.

Texas Heart Special Screening , Presented by Ground Zero Blues Club Narrative Feature, 1:40:00, Mississippi Director: Mark David Screening: Saturday, 6 pm, Malco Texas Heart tells the story of Peter Franklin, a crooked lawyer who’s caught up in a loveless existence, loses a critical case for the mob, and runs off to hide out in a backwoods Texas town. There he encounters a compelling story involving a mentally-challenged young man who is accused of killing a beautiful girl. Frank soon faces an agonizing choice: ignore the case in order to remain anonymous and far from the prying eyes of the mob or reach out and try to save the young man.

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The Armor of Light

The Bravest, the Boldest

Narrative Feature, 1:28:00, New York and Washington D.C.

Narrative Short, 16:53, Los Angeles, California

Director: Abigail Disney

Director: Moon Molson

Screening: Saturday, 2:15 pm, Malco

Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco (part of the Relationships block)

What price conscience?

Abigail Disney’s directorial debut, The Armor of Light, follows the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America.

A young mother in a Harlem housing project realizes the arrival of two uniformed soldiers brings news she can’t bring herself to accept.

The Bespoke Tailoring of Mister Bellamy

The Button King

Special Screening

Documentary Short, 8:04, Bishopville, South Carolina

Narrative Short, 16:14, Shreveport, Louisiana

Director: Ava Lowrey

Directed By: Alexander Jeffery

Mississippi Premiere

Screening: Saturday, 2:30 pm, Powerhouse (part of the Best of Louisiana Film Prize block)

Screening: Friday, 1:15 pm, Conference Center; Saturday 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Documentary Short block)

At the integration of the job market in 1964 Louisiana, a posting for a janitorial position at a local law firm and the discovery of an old sewing machine ignites a buried passion in old Mister Bellamy.

Dalton Stevens is a folk artist from Bishopville, South Carolina. An insomniac, he stumbled on his art by accident – developing a hobby of covering things with buttons when unable to sleep late at night. Now in his late 80’s, Stevens has been creating folk art with buttons for over 20 years, becoming known as “The Button King.”

The Black Definition Mississippi Documentary, 11:03 Director: Michael Fant

The Cut

Regional Premiere

Documentary Short, 5:22, United Kingdom/Netherlands

Screening: Friday, 5:15 pm ,Conference Center; Sunday, 1:00 pm, Malco (part of the Mississippi Documentary block)

Director: Jeroen Pool

Seven black male students discuss the racial climate in America today, including stereotypes, police brutality and progression.

Regional/Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco (plays with Archie’s Betty) The Italian hairdresser Rodrigo has outspoken views on hairdressing and beauty. For him outer beauty, the sculpture, is inextricably linked with inner beauty, the soul. Anyone can cut hair, but hairdressing is about truly understanding and connecting with the person whose hair you are cutting.

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LUCKY 13

means some big changes for the Oxford Film Festival!

BOARD MEMBERS

OFF is proud to present our new Executive Director, Melanie Addington, who has worked as a volunteer with the festival since 2006. She directs, writes, produces films and serves on the Mississippi Film and Video Alliance as President. She co-founded OxFilm, the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council’s program to lend equipment to Oxford filmmakers. contact: melanieaddington@oxfordfilmfest.com

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Why limit the fun to four days? Introducing a fifth day of fun, The Food Film Festival on Wednesday!

A new Board of Directors is helping shape the future of the festival!

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EXPANDED V EN UES including: The Shelter

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Round Table

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+ More award prizes for filmmakers + Return of the community film with more focus on making films

MORE FAMILY OPPORTUNITIES! Children’s workshops

Free Children’s films at the Public Library

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The Faucet Mississippi Narrative, 4:28 Directors: Danny Klimetz, Samip Raval U.S. Premiere Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Malco; Sunday, 10:30 am, Malco (part of the Mississippi Narrative block) A gentleman just wants to wash his hands...

The Favor Narrative Short, 10:36 Director: Eileen Myers World Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco (part of the Relationships block)

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The Favor explores what it means to be a daughter, a husband and ultimately a partner.

Ellen and Ralph have differing views on how to handle Ellen’s dying mother’s imminent passing. Finding a weathered photograph of her mother in happier times, Ellen is convinced this youthful love is what her mother needs to make her death easier.

The Gift Mississippi Narrative, 12:48 Director: Gabriel Robertson Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Malco; Sunday, 10:30 am, Malco (part of the Mississippi Narrative block) To celebrate his eleventh birthday, a young boy selects his gift - little knowing that his choice will change the world.

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The Guests Narrative Short, Run 10:31, Australia Director: Shane Danielsen Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 10:00 am, Malco (part of the Relationships block)

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Alone in a strange new city, awaiting her husband’s return, a new mother has some unexpected visitors.

The Happy Song Mississippi Music Video, 5:25 Director: Coop Cooper (OFF Alum: The Best Day (2012)) Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Music Video block)

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A music video by Blackwater Trio. Three lonely people having a bad day receive a mysterious invitation to an event which will change their lives.

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Documentary Short, 12:15, Los Angeles, California Director: Nicholas Coles (OFF Alum: Town Planner (2005)) Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15 am, Conference Center; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Documentary Short block) Meet Tom and Barbara, the proud new owners of a serial killer’s house — the most infamous residence in Sacramento, California.

The middle-age couple soon realizes it’s going to take more than a fresh coat of paint to whitewash their home’s macabre history.

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The Iraqi Superman Animation, 6:00, Iraq Director: Sajad Abbas World Premiere Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Animation block) A tormented young man constructs an ingenious device to rescue his father from Abu Ghraib prison. What he finds there is far from his expectations, revealing the mistreatment and torture of prisoners. His hopes and dreams for a brighter future are dashed upon finding his father.

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The Keepers Documentary Feature, 1:10:00, Memphis, Tennessee Directors: Sara Kaye Larson, Joann Self Selvidge Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 7:00 pm, Malco

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The Light Thief Narrative Short, 19:00, Spain Director: Eva Daoud Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15 am, Malco; Saturday, 6:00 pm, Powerhouse (part of the International Shorts block) What’s left of love if its soul is stolen? What’s left of a person if love is stolen? The bitter tale of victims and their executioners, as they all exchange turns.

The Lion’s Mouth Opens Special screening Documentary Short, 28:00, Los Angeles, California Director: Lucy Walker Screening: Saturday, 4:30 pm, Malco

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A courageous young Scottish actress takes the boldest step imaginable to confront her risk of having inherited the fatal, incurable Huntington’s Disease.

The Missing Girl Narrative Feature, 1:29:00 Director: A.D. Calvo Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 5:30 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 2:30 pm, Malco (plays with Stockholm) The Missing Girl tells the story of Mort, the lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, and Ellen, the emotionally disruptive, aspiring graphic novelist he’s hired. The story involves the search for a girl who isn’t missing and the discovery that it’s never too late for late bloomers.

The New Orleans Sazerac Documentary Short, 20:28, Atlanta, GA Director: James Martin World Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15, am Conference Center; Saturday 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Documentary Short block) The New Orleans Sazerac is a short documentary that explores the expansive history and modern applications of the classic cocktail through interviews with historians, authors, experts, and bartenders.

The Plastic Bag Experimental Short, 1:00, Norway Director: Jørgen Johansen USA Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (part of the Experimental block) Two strangers share a moment with a plastic bag.

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The Present

The Seafarer and The Moonlight

Animation, 4:20, Germany

Animation, 2:30, Los Angeles, California

Director: Jacob Frey

Director: James Dastoli

Mississippi Premiere

Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Animation block)

Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Animation block) Jake spends most of his time playing video games indoors until his mum decides to give him a present.

The Puddle

An ancient mariner does battle with a behemoth from the deep.

The Sibling Code Narrative Short, 6:45, Altadena, CA

Experimental, 9:51, Turkey

Director: Roberta Munroe

Director: Serdar Yilmaz

Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 12:15 pm, Malco (part of the Lighter Side block)

Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (part of the Experimental block) A man in the flea market (Mihran Tomasyan) walks while checking walls covered with old posters and counters full of stuff with prying eyes. Due to the incarnating object that he sees on one of the counters just carries him away into another reality.

In the midst of choosing between a traditional Miyazaki funeral and letting the ashes be one with the wind, Austin and Sheryl duke it out.

The Sinking of Sozopol Narrative Feature, 1:40:00, Bulgaria Director: Kostadin Bonev Regional Premiere

The Red Thunder Narrative Short, 6:26, Spain Director: Alvaro Ron Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 12:15 pm, Malco (part of the Lighter Side block) Sarah (Allie Grant, Weeds), a nerdy teenager, needs her mom’s brand new car to go on a date with Danny (Miles Heizer Parenthood), the boy she is in love with. Her mom, Dr. Thun (Karen Strassman, Silicon Valley), an absent minded podiatrist, is concerned about Sarah driving by the dangerous streets of downtown Los Angeles. She tells her daughter she may need her car if one of her patients has an emergency, but Sarah decides to disobey her mom and steal the car. Little does she know the vehicle is actually part of a secret Dr. Thun keeps and this discovery will change Sarah’s life forever.

Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Malco; Sunday, 10:45 am, Malco An aging man goes back to Sozopol and brings along his memories and ten bottles of vodka. It is clear that when the vodka is over, something must happen. Something that will change his life forever.

Because when hope is gone, miracle is the last resort.

The Week Narrative Feature, 1:37:00, Los Angeles, California Directors: John W. Mann, Jon Gunn Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, Noon, Malco Dick Romans is a washed up TV host whose wife leaves him the day before

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their ten-year anniversary celebration. Alone with his thoughts, his dog, and a ton of booze, Dick decides to go through with the week-long party... by himself. The seven event-filled days become his reluctant vision quest, filled with odd characters, awkward romance, and some long-overdue self examination.

They Crawl Amongst Us! Animation, 12:30, Seattle, Washington Director: Sihanouk Mariona Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Animation block) A stop-motion documentary about life in New York City — as told by its pests!

‘Til Death Mississippi Narrative, 10:05, Oxford, Mississippi Director: Matthew Graves (Off Alum: Dummy (2007), The Show Must Go On (2012), and Barry (2015)) Screening: Friday 1:00 pm, Malco; Sunday, 10:30 am, Malco (part of the Mississippi narrative block) On the dark and stormy night of his fiancée’s funeral, a grieving man, so overwhelmed at the thought of never seeing the love of his life again, decides to bring her home.

Three Fingers Narrative Short, 12:30, Alabaster, Alabama Director: Paul D. Hart Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, 6:45 pm, Malco (part of the Southern Shorts block) A young female Marine war veteran navigates her disintegrating life until there is nothing left but to make a choice.

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Tumble Dry Low Narrative Short, 7:00, Dallas, Texas Director: Jefferson Stein Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 3:15 pm, Malco; Saturday, 6:45 pm, Malco (part of the Southern Shorts block)

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A little girl and her father deal with loss in East Texas.

Twisted Narrative Short, 5:53, Australia

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Director: Stuart Bowen Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 7:45 pm, Malco; Saturday, 12:15 pm, Malco (part of the Lighter Side block) The Good, The Bad and the Inflatable. School reunions are strange for anyone, but especially our socially awkward hero. When the girl of his middle school dreams makes her appearance known, he will stop at nothing to win her over...even if it means going into a unique and totally bonkers balloon battle with his old bully and school nemesis one last time.

Vancouver Zoetrope Documentary Short, 5:00, Canada Director: Jeffery Chong North American Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15 am, Conference Center; Saturday 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Documentary Short block) Vancouver’s iconic Burrard Bridge is recognized for its monumental design and aesthetic details.

This film reveals a hidden architectural feature of the bridge that is only visible to motorists.

Viola: A Mother’s Story of Juvenile Justice Documentary Short, 7:55, Memphis, Tennessee Directors: Sarah Fleming, Joann Self Selvidge (OFF Alum: Training Wheels (2012)) Screening: Friday, 11:30 am, Powerhouse, Saturday, 12:15 pm, Malco (plays with Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi )

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Vish Special Screening Documentary Short, 5:30 Director: Danny Klimetz Screening: Wednesday, 6:00 pm, Powerhouse Vish was shot and edited

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West of Elvis Documentary Short, 8:05, Oxford, Mississippi Director: Louis Bourgeois

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Audience Awards Winner Screening: Sunday, 3:00 pm, Powerhouse West of Elvis is the last documentary made of Paul MaCleod, the curator of Graceland Too, arguably the largest and strangest collection of Elvis memorabilia in the world.

What Lola Wants Narrative Feature, 1:21:00, Montgomery, Alabama Director: Rupert Glasson Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 4:15 pm, Powerhouse Seventeen year old Lola Franklin runs away from home but allows the world to believe she has been kidnapped. Intent on making her way across country, she meets a boyher age in a New Mexico diner. They fall instantly in love. But when Marlo learns of the reward for Lola’s safe return, he must confront his own past and decide whether to take Lola back home to collect the reward or help her continue her mysterious journey.

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What’s in a Name

XO

Documentary Short, 12:15 pm Atlanta, Georgia

Experimental, 3:30

Director: Daniel Robin

Director: Brian Ratigan

Mississippi Premiere

Regional Premiere

Screening: Friday, 1:00 pm, Malco; Sunday, 2:45 pm, Malco (plays with Children of the Arctic)

Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (part of the Experimental block)

What’s in a Name is about sculpting identities, both in terms of how the world sees us and how we view ourselves. These themes are woven into the juxtaposition of two stories that form a dialogue across generations. The question of Jewish identity and authenticity of culture is examined through home movies, archival footage, interviews and abstract recreations.

Fearing her own memories, a girl begins the cerebral journey of longing for escape before completely fading away.

Women and Work Mississippi Music Video, 3:23 Director: Jonathan Pekar Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Music Video block) A music video that celebrates the great Southern band Lucero’s music and character.

Yalo Special Screening Mississippi Documentary Screening: Wednesday, 6:00 pm, Powerhouse; Saturday, 10:00 am, Conference Center (part of the Food block and Mississippi Humanities Council Blue Magnolia Films block) A small town craft brewery hits it big, producing bold new tastes like Miss-issIPA, River Ale and smallbatch, bourbon barrel-aged stout, in what is formerly a dry county. YALO showcases the persistent rise of creative entrepreneurs in Water Valley, and the importance of small businesses to revitalize Main Street.

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You Can Stay Here Experimental, 2:59, Los Angeles, California Director: John Veron Screening: Friday, 11:00, am Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (in Experimental block) In a school that is no longer a school, a man is pursued by a boy who is no longer a boy.

Zero Narrative Short, 29:00, Spain Director: David Victori Producers: Ridley Scott , Michael Fassbender, Eduardo Verástegui Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 5:30 pm, Malco; Saturday, 2:30 pm, Malco (part of the Fantasy block) A boy and his father are emotionally and physically separated on the day earth intermittently loses gravity. The boy is wrestling with questions about his mother’s death, while his father desperately tries to find his son as the world is rising and collapsing around him.

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OFF Goes to the Gulf Coast!

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February 26-27, 2016

“Best of the 2016 Oxford Film Festival” Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center Ocean Springs, Mississipi Encore screenings of winning films and fan favorites!

See themaryc.org for tickets and details or learn more at oxfordfilmfest.com

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Tickets Where to get them!

Tickets can be purchased for the 2016 Oxford Film Festival: 1. In advance at www.oxfordfilmfest.com

2. In person at the festival venues from February 17-February 21

Wednesday, February 17 - Food + Film = $30 for screening, reception, and food Thursday, February 18 - Thacker Mountain + opening night = Free

Friday, February 19/Saturday, February 20/Sunday, February 21: VIP pass = $100 (includes access to all parties, green room, and events plus priority line except Wednesday event) Weekend Pass = $50 (access to films only)/$40 for student/seniors 1-day pass = $20 (access to films only)/$15 for student/seniors Conversation with Panel = $10 or free with VIP pass, all other panels = FREE Single Ticket = $10 • Friday party = $15 • Saturday Party = $25

The Fine Print The main box office is the Malco Oxford Commons (206 Commonwealth Blvd) but other venues include the Oxford Conference Center (102 Ed Perry Blvd), The Shelter on Van Buren (1221 Van Buren Ave.), The Round Table (132 Courthouse Square), The Lyric (1006 Van Buren Ave) and The Powerhouse (413 South 14th St). Be sure to check the program to make sure you are at the right venue. Tickets are sold at all venues.

All films contain adult content and are not recommended for children under 18 unless otherwise indicated.

Views expressed in the screened films are those of the filmmakers, and not necessarily shared by the Oxford Film Festival. Presentation of films does not mean that the festival promotes the behavior contained therein.

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All times are tentative and subject to change due to the nature of film festivals. Refer to our website, www.oxfordfilmfest.com or our social media for the latest information.

An individual film ticket allows admission to a single film block but does not guarantee seating. We suggest arriving at least 20 minutes before each film.

Seating is allotted based on priority access with seats first given to badge holders with remaining seats open on a first come, first served basis to individual ticket holders. In the event that a screening is at capacity, the film ticket can be used for another film at the same time, the same film at an alternate time or the ticket can be refunded.

February 17-21, 2016

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Films by Genre

*Scheduled to attend Note: Rating of “FF” (Family Friendly) are included and are not MPAA official but a general guideline for families with children 13 and above. Very few films are suitable for under 13.

Animated Short Araignee Borrowed Time Bottomless * FF Fulfilament FF Golden Shot Hum * Needle Town * Olilo * One Minute for Katrina * Perfect Houseguest FF The Iraqi Superman FF The Present * FF The Seafarer and the Moonlight FF They Crawl Amongst Us * FF

Documentary Feature A Poem is A Naked Person An Open Secret Archie’s Betty * FF Children of the Arctic FF Dixie * FF Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker * FF Help us Find Sunil Tripathi * FF Jonathan Demme Presents Made in Texas * LongLeaf: The Heart of Pine * FF Searching for Hell (virtual reality film) The Armor of Light The Keepers * FF

Documentary Short Bookin’ * FF Cut/Chop/Cook * FF Delta Flavor * FF Fitting the Description in North Portland * FF Helen Turner, Pitmaster * FF High Water Mark FF Life is Super Gr8 * FF Oxford Canteen * FF Roots * FF SPEARHUNTER * Stitch * FF The Button King * FF The Cut FF The House is Innocent * The Lion’s Mouth Opens * The New Orleans Sazerac * Vancouver Zoetrope FF Viola: A Mother’s Story of Juvenile Justice * FF Vish * FF

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What’s in a Name * FF Yalo *

Experimental A Place Within A Place FF Anatomical Gifts * FF Cannot Predict Now FF cyberGenesis FF El Portal * FF On Surgery * FF Phantom Limbs * FF River Moon Black Birds * FF Swallowed Whole * FF Take the Bus on a Hot Summer Day * FF The Plastic Bag FF The Puddle * FF XO * FF You Can Stay Here * FF

Mississippi Documentary Finding Cleveland * FF Layers * FF Living with HIV * FF Locked Out: A Mississippi Success Story * FF Mo’ Bout Joe * FF The Black Definition * FF

Mississippi Music Video Booker Wright’s Mashup * FF Bottle of Sunshine * FF Down Down Down * FF Fallen Star * Fiddler’s Green * Kudzu Kings 20th Anniversary show * FF Ole Miss Rebel Blues * FF One Star Delta Night * FF Preacherman * FF Rock Me Slow * Ruremarm * The Happy Song * FF Women and Work *

Mississippi Narrative Forced Move * Freedom Fighters * Last Night * Stargrassle Paranormal * The Faucet * FF The Gift * FF Til Death *

Embers * FF Ladies of the House * Saved by Grace * FF Slip, Tumble & Slide * FF Spaghetti Man * Texas Heart * FF The Missing Girl The Sinking of Sozopol * FF The Week * What Lola Wants *

Narrative Shorts A King’s Betrayal * Actor Seeks Role FF Affections * FF American Virgin * FF Atchafalaya * FF Blazing Sun * FF Broke Dick Dog * Call Me Cappy * FF Flash FF Hit & Run * Honey and the Hive * FF Hut Hut * FF Intersection * Jackdaw * Kingdom of Garbage FF Little Sticker * FF Losing It * Mother’s Day * FF Night of the Slasher Nirvana: A Short Film About Lung Cancer * Paperous * FF Preggo Put Down Roubado * Scrabble * FF SI * FF Snow Day * FF Spare Rooms * FF Stockholm FF Sweetly Broken * FF Take With Water * FF The Bespoke Tailoring of Mister Bellamy * FF The Bravest, The Boldest * FF The Favor The Guests * FF The Light Thief FF The Red Thunder * FF The Sibling Code * FF Three Fingers * Tumble Dry Low FF Twisted * FF Zero FF

Narrative Feature Babysitter * FF Dude Bro Party Massacre III *

February 17-21, 2016