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Welcome to the 14th annual Oxford Film Festival.

The festival has seen some exciting changes this year as we navigated our first year of year-round programming, and I personally had my first full year as executive director. I want to thank everyone who supported the festival this year as it grew.

But one thing has not changed and that is our focus on great movies.

This year the Oxford Film Festival will bring you 152 films that will provoke and amuse. From documentaries on race relations, religious bills to drag queens and coming out stories, horror films to tearjerkers and music videos and experimental shorts, this year’s slate of films really has something for everyone. We are especially excited to launch three new categories this year: music documentaries, LGBTQ films and New Media. While we have shown all three in the past, we decided to grow all of these categories to focus on more diverse voices. We are very excited to have virtual reality back as well, for free at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center.

I occasionally get the question as to what exactly is a film festival.

Sure, it is about watching independent and low budget films, getting to interact with filmmakers and learn more about the industry. But it is more than that. Just like 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 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. We know they will feel right at home because of you.

But there are not just movies this weekend! We have workshops and panels that focus on a variety of topics in the film industry from making movies here at home, to getting cast in a movie to diversity in the industry, our experts will be sure to inspire you. We also added a new Kid Film Fest on Saturday and Sunday for young ones to watch movies and learn the art of animation and acting.

There is also the most important element of every festival: 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 oneon-one with a filmmaker.

Of course, there are also the parties. Anyone with a VIP pass gets to hang out with us in the evenings.

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 me.

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

Melanie Addington Executive Director

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ROLL CREDITS Fourteenth Annual Oxford Film Festival (2017) Executive Director: Melanie Addington Oxford Film Festival Board: Wayne Andrews, Tim Burkhead, Meaghin Burke, Joy Clark, Bethany Cooper, Mary Allyn Hedges, Hudson Hickman, Jon Maynard, Sparky Reardon, Donna Ruth Roberts, Steve Sahlein, Jack Pendarvis and Dr. Ralph Vance Narrative Feature Programmer: Mark Bell Documentary Feature and Music Documentary Programmer: Mark Rabinowitz Documentary Shorts Programmers: Mary Margaret Andrews and Courtney Hall Animation Programmer: Michelle Emanuel Experimental Programmer: Brooke White LGBTQ Programmer: Brian Whisenant Mississippi Films Programmer: Deborah Barker Music Video and Documentary Programmer: Newt Rayburn Narrative Shorts Programmer: Maggie Woodward New Media Programmer: Kim Voynar Production Services provided by GT Media Group Projectionist: Greg Gray Volunteer Coordinator: Dawn Bullion Assistant Volunteer Coordinator: Sarah Wadford Publicist: John Wildman Publications Manager: Tom Speed Panels Coordinator: Kim Chrestman Social Media: Juli Jackson Transportation Coordinator: Virginia Brick Box Office Coordinator: Withrow Newell Jury Wrangler: Arik Sokol Line Manager: Taylor Collins Malco Venue Manager: Toby Douglas Screen Manager: Montana Byrd and Dylan Kerr New Media/Powerhouse Manager: Vanessa Brasher Hoka Sculpture Artist: Bill Beckwith Q&A Coordinator: Rory Ledbetter Ballot Coordinator: Pamela Lawhead Merchandise Coordinator: Angella Baker Hotel Coordinator: Kristin Rogers Green Room Coordinator: Patrick Hudson Database Manager and Hospitality Coordinator: Kayleigh Graham Party Coordinators: Diala Chaney, Joy Clark, Kayleigh Graham, Molly Beth Shaffer Intern: Margot Aliffi and Hanna Teevan Trailer Editor: Mary Knight Staff Photographers: Bill Dabney, Mike Stanton, Daniel Lee Perea Screeners: Melanie Addington, Mary Margaret Andrews, Wayne Andrews, Angella Baker, Deborah Barker, Mark Bell, Steve Bozeman, Jr., Billy Ray Brewton, Michelle Bright, Dawn Bullion, Montana Byrd, Delene Case, Toby Douglas, Michelle Emanuel, Michael Ferraro, Marilyn Frey, Faridah Gbadamosi, Carolyn Gawlik, Emily Gawlik, Andrew George, Amye Goussett, Courtney Hall, Aaron Harris, Blake Hemphill, Hillory Howell, Patrick Hudson, Juli Jackson, Arta James, Kelly Johnson, Alison Kinamon, Chris Koban, Jack Koban, Tracy Koslowski, Bill Lawhead, Angela Mayho, Susan McPhail, Pandora McPhoe, Dunja Novak, Marya Paolillo, Rebecca Pugh, Jennifer Murchison, Mark Rabinowitz, Newt Rayburn, Amanda Reed, Cheryl Resetarits, Steve Sahlein, Lacey Sanders, Laura Sheppardson, Marcus Simmons, Eric Snider, Tom Speed, Kim Voynar, Sarah Wadford, Mary Warner, Brian Whisenhant, Brooke White, Amile Wilson and Maggie Woodward Poster Design: Stephen Rogers, Blue Clock Design Printed Program Design: Susan Bauer Lee Ad and All Other Design: Margot Aliffi, Stephen Rogers, Blue Clock Designs Contributing Writers: Jolie Carbo, Kate Gulley, Brittany Murphree, Tom Speed Ambassadors: Susan and Johnny McPhail Advisory Board: Erik Jambor, Don Lewis, Ron Shapiro Special Thanks to: Aidan Addington, Harry and Lynda Addington, Josh Williams, James Willis and Karen Scott, Johnny and Susan McPhail, Don Lewis and the people of Oxford.

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 or visit us online at oxfordfilmfest.com

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Welcome to Mississippi and the Fourteenth Annual Oxford Film Festival. The Mississippi Film Office is happy to be a part of this vibrant and innovative cinematic celebration. And we’re especially glad you’re here with us.

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 communities across the state have supported location film production for over 100 years, and we will be 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. As a cash incentive program, we offer a 25% rebate on Mississippi production expenditures and on non-resident cast and crew payroll and a 30% rebate on resident cast and crew payroll…and rebate within 90-120 days of completion of production here. Our $50,000 minimum spend is one of the lowest in the country, with video games, national commercials, webisodes, shorts, documentaries, television, and features all eligible. And we are committed 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.

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This is our little hamlet, velvet ditch and hilltop oasis. We believe Oxford embodies and embraces our rich artistic and literary heritage and all of that celebrates our individuality, diversity and quirks. We are glad to open our homes and businesses with a warm welcome for you to show off your works and share your originality with us. Through this, we all grow a little.

We are proud of past festivals in terms of attendance and content and we are happy to see this event continue to grow. I extend my hope that this year’s event will be better than last - and continue to do so.

Enjoy your visit and please say “Hi” to everyone you see - we’re that way.

Keep Oxford Square!

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Juried Competition Films.......................16 Experimental Juried Competition Films..........20 LGBTQ Juried Competition Films....................23 Mississippi Features

Juried Competition Films.......................26 Mississippi Shorts Juried Competition Films....27 Mississippi Music Video

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Juried Competition Films.......................34 Narrative Feature Juried Competition Films....35 Narrative Shorts Juried Competition Films.....36 New Media Juried Competition Films.............41 Virtual Reality Juried Competition Films.........42 Special Screenings Films...............................45 How to be a Sponsor......................................54 Sponsor Form................................................55 Frequently Asked Questions ..........................56 Sponsor List..................................................58 Alphabetical Listing of Films By Genre...........60

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History of the Hoka

By Jolie Carbo

The Oxford Film Festival was founded in 2003 by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. The festival later became an independent non-profit organization with 501c3 status, committed to celebrating of independent cinema, in 2008.

But since its founding, Oxford Film Fest has used the Hoka award as a part of the festival. Each year during the festival the Hoka is awarded to various films.

The name for the Hoka award originated with the Hoka Theater, founded by Ron Sharpio in Oxford in the 1970s, bringing the world of independent film to the small town of Oxford.

The theater was named for Princess Hoka, the Chickasaw woman who, according to the 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 theater helped the film community blossom in Oxford. The Hoka closed in the 1990s, but the great legacy it left sparked inspiration for the film festival. Today the Oxford Film Festival keeps that legacy alive with “The Spirit of the Hoka” award.

“I don’t know if it’s true,” says Shapiro, “But the story I heard is that the Chickasaws were notorious for a baseball-type game they played and they gambled on it. They were notorious for losing everything. So they’d put stuff in the women’s names so they wouldn’t lose everything. I hope it’s true. I’ve heard that.

She’s the one that signed the deed.”

Each year during the Oxford Film Festival, an award called “The Spirit of the Hoka” is awarded to winners in the narrative feature and short, documentary feature and short, animation, experimental and Mississippi narrative, documentary and music video categories.

When it came to the design of the Spirit of the Hoka award, local sculptor Bill Beckwith drew on his research. “I don’t know how I could really say that that image of her formed,” Beckwith says. “I had this image of a cool morning on the Yocona River coming out of your winter home—they had winter homes and summer homes—coming out in a nice warm blanket and the air was clean and crisp. I don’t know. That was sort of my…maybe a fantasy of pre-contact before the Europeans arrived.”

Last year the Hoka Award went to The Seafarer and the Moonlight for animated short, Children of the Arctic for documentary feature, Yalo for audience award, “The House is Innocent” for documentary short, “cybergene-

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sis” for experimental short, “Finding Cleveland/ The Gift” for Mississippi film, “Blazing Sun” for narrative short, “Embers” for narrative feature, and “Fallen Star” for music video.

Since the start of the Oxford Film Festival, the Spirit of the Hoka award has been awarded to the best of the festival and the tradition of the Hoka will always live on through this award and festival.

Prizes this year also include: Narrative Feature: • $10,000 camera rental package from Panavision • A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers and reps can find you Documentary Feature • $10,000 camera rental package from Panavision • Three days of audio post production from Bad Animals of Seattle • $2,500 of editorial consultation from Editor Joe Shapiro 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 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 • One-year membership and free equipment rentals from OxFilm Society.

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

• Cash prize of $250 In addition the Hoka awards, five 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 by the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation 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 co-producer 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.

• Best Editing Award is chosen by the programmers to highlight the importance of the edit in the process of filmmaking with a cash prize of $250.

• The Pat Rasberry Emerging Mississippi Filmmaker Award is named after our dear friend Pat Rasberry who ran the Tupelo Film Festival and was in charge of the Tupelo Film Commission. While she lost her battle with cancer in 2016, her legacy of supporting Mississippi filmmakers will continue through this award.

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Oxford Film Festival Reveals Headlining Screenings Screenings include award-winning films in three new categories

By Brittany Murphree Oxford Film Festival presents films in three new categories this year, some of which will be showcased on the festival’s opening night.

Oxford Film Festival is a non-profit organization committed to celebrating the art of independent cinema. The festival recently announced the three new categories: Music Documentaries, LGBTQ (expanded from traditionally strong programming into its own section) and New Media. These three categories are emphasized in the independent films screened throughout the five day event.

The first night is for the community (Wednesday) and will include grant awardwinners and the community film Firemax.

Opening night is Thursday and will feature the film Strange Weather starring Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter. Katherine Dieckmann directed this film to showcase a story of a mother taking the backroads of Mississippi to complete a mission.

Massachusetts native Katherine Dieckmann has been directing for the past decade, creating feature films such as A Good Baby, Diggers, Motherhood, and her most recent film Strange Weather which had its initial premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.

Opening night will be located at Lyric Oxford, beginning after Thacker Mountain Radio-around 7:30 pm. Special guests will be attending the screening.

The Music Documentaries category is being introduced because of the strong tradition of music films submitted to the festival while previous categories did not allow the festival to showcase as many as they would like.

“Music documentaries and particularly blues documentaries are such a large part of Mississippi culture that we knew we had to expand this area to better serve our own community,” said Executive Director Melanie Addington.

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Holly Hunter stars in Strange Weather, the opening night film. screening of Small Town Gay Bar. The unique film was directed by Malcolm Ingram alongside executive producer Kevin Smith. Ingram has created several award-winning short films including Drawing Files, Tall Lights Fade, Continental, and his most recent documentary Out To Win. His films have been previewed at world-renowned festivals such as SXSW and Sundance Film Festival.

Small Town Gay Bar has been represented at over 100 festivals. The film presents a clear picture of the oppresion and hatred towards homosexculity in the South.

Karman Kregloe from NewNowNext states, “Gay Bar takes a revealing look at a facet of American queer life that is all but ignored by the mainstream media.”

This screening falls under the festival’s new LGTBQ category. The category was introduced because the festival felt it was important to expand upon this category in light of recent legislative bills that were presented across the south, including in Mississippi.

“As a way to strengthen diverse voices of our community, the new block really just expands upon programming we already were doing,” Addington said.

The screening will be hosted at Malco Oxford Commons, 204 Commonwealth Blvd.

Special guests from the film, including director Malcolm Ingram, will be in attendance.

The festival will continue on Saturday night with an anniversary screening of Chasing Amy. The event will be at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts at 351 University Ave. beginning at 7:30 pm and a panel discussion will follow the film.

The festival will be hosting short films from the Top 5 Louisiana Film Prize. This festival is the highest awarding short-film festival in the world, solely presenting films that reflect the livelihood of Northwest Louisiana.

LAFP founder Gregory Kallenberg said to The Times, “I actually saw a woman cry as she was trying to decide which film to put at the top and that’s what the power of Film Prize is all about.”

The top screenings are as follows: Native directed by Travis Champagne and Stephen Kinigopolous, The Stand directed by Eva Contis, Memoir and Ya Albi (My Heart) directed

by Christine Chen. These award-winning films range from stories of religious freedom being put to the test, adversities a child bears for his tribe, and even heartbreaking separations caused by a country’s dividing border.

The final film presented is LA Film Prize top winner The Man From Mars directed

by Jonnie Stapleton. From years of filming, Jonnie has created a name for himself in the industry. The Man From Mars takes a unique and almost sarcastic viewpoint of a woman who convinces her whole community that she is the second coming of Jesus. The LA Film Prize screenings will begin on Sunday with special guests, including the film’s directors, in attendance.

For more about the special screenings, guest and event times, visit oxfordfilmfestival.com.

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OFF Alumni Highlights

By Kate Gulley

Trip down memory lane:

A glance at some of the best 2003 - DAVID CAIRNS David Cairns is a writer and director who submitted his film Cry for Bobo in 2003 for the first Oxford Film Festival. Cry for Bobo is about a clown named Bobo that is sent to clown prison for committing a daring but silly crime. The ten minute short film tells how Bobo must escape to prevent bringing shame on all clowndom. Cairns most recently released a horror movie called Let Us Prey in 2014. You can find the trailer on www.imdb.com or watch the full video on Amazon Video.

2004 - TATE TAYLOR Tate Taylor submitted his film Chicken Party in the 2nd Oxford Film Festival and has come a long way since then. As actor and director, he is known for The Help (2011) and Get On Up (2014). He was born in Jackson, Miss. which may explain his interest in The Help, which is based on an African American maid’s point of view while working for white families in Jackson during the civil rights movement .

Recently, Taylor directed the blockbuster Girl on a Train (2016), which is still in theaters.

2005 - JD EVERMORE JD Evermore was born in Greenville, Miss. He won the audience award for writing and directing his first independent feature Glorious Mail at the Oxford Film Festival in 2005. Since then he’s been primarily acting and can be seen in movies like Dallas Buyers Club (2013) as Clint, Django (2012) as O.B., and 12 Years a Slave (2013) as Chapin.

2007 - JOE YORK Joe York submitted two documentary films for the 4th Oxford Film Festival called Hot Chicken and Whole Hog. Whole Hog was one of the Hoka winners. York directed Pride & Joy: A Southern Foodways Alliance in 2013. In this hour-long feature, he focused on the traditionbearers of Southern food culture as well as paint intimate portraits of people and places that illuminate important questions about our

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About Martha Stephens:

Director and writer of Passenger Pigeons (2011) Martha Stephens was born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1984, but grew up in a deep, country-fried agriculture town in Eastern Kentucky with not very much to do. There was a movie theatre across the river in Ohio where her mom would drop her off with her brothers. That theater quickly became their own personal babysitter.

“I saw Beetlejuice three times in a single day and after that I was completely hooked,” Stephens says.

Stephens attended UNC School of the Arts to study film. By the age of 25, she made her first micro-budget feature Passenger Pigeons. It took the four-man crew three weeks to shoot in October 2009, completely guerilla style. Stephens not only used up all of her savings and sold most of her belongings to shoot the film, she gave up her job and apartment for the film and later edited at her mother’s house. After all of her hardship and determination, Passenger Pigeons premiered at South by Southwest (SXSW) and was later recognized at Oxford Film Festival.

The majority of Passenger Pigeons was shot in Kentucky, near where Stephens grew up.

Most of her family members acted in the film, along with Stephens. She doesn’t think of herself as an actress though, because her true passion is writing and directing. Themes like escape, unfulfillment, the dying of the old guard, and the passage of time can be found throughout this film and are reflected in Stephens’ other works like Land Ho!.

Her favorite part about filming Land Ho! was the chemistry between the film’s two leads: Paul Eenhoorn and Earl Lynn Nelson. Land Ho! takes place in scenic Iceland as two brothers-inlaw go on a road trip.

Stephens says, “Those two are just so believable as men who were once close and then lost touch.”

The film touches its audience as it conveys that wherever one is in life, whatever your age, your race, your gender, we are all people with dreams and desires. The film must have done something right because it won “Best Buddy Picture” and the “John Cassavetes Award” in 2015. “We wanted people to laugh but we also wanted to remind people of humanity’s depth,” Stephens says.

Stephens lives right outside of Olympia, Washington. Currently, she is casting for her next feature, which she wrote with her brother. She describes the feature as a 1970s piece with action, adventure, and a lot of humor. They plan to shoot this spring or summer.

2011: Martha Stephens, Passenger Pigeons

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2008: Alex Orr, Blood Car

2010: Gerald Peary, For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

2012: Christine Elise McCarthy, Bathing and the Single Girl

culture. Three of Joe’s films can be seen at this year’s festival.

2008 - ALEX ORR Alex Orr was born in Atlanta. He submitted his film Blood Car in 2008 and A is for Alex in the 2015 Oxford Film Festival. Orr is a production manager and producer known for Atlanta (2016), Easy (2016) and Blue Ruin (2013). He is currently the production manager of Atlanta.

The show is about two cousins, with different views on art versus commerce, on their way up through the Atlanta rap scene.

2014: Joshua John Miller, The Discontentment of Ed Telfair

The Final Girls (2015). He helped write this comedic horror movie, which is about a young woman grieving the loss of her mother, who was a famous scream queen from the ‘80s.

She finds herself pulled into the world of her mom’s most famous movie and has to fight off the film’s maniacal killer.

2009 - RICHARD BATES Richard Bates is a director and writer who entered his 18-minute short film Excision in the 6th Oxford Film Festival. Excision is a horror film about a neglected teenager who takes refuge in the dreams that used to haunt her and plans to prove her worth to her unaccepting parents. Bates later made this short horror into a full movie in 2012 as director. He also directed Suburban Gothic (2014), and most recently directed Trash Fire this year.

2010 - GERALD PEARY Gerald Peary submitted the historical documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism in the 2009 Oxford Film Festival. Peary is director and writer who is also known for Midwest of Eden (2005) and most recently, Archie’s Betty (2015).

Archie’s Betty is an independent documentary in search of the real-life characters behind Archie’s Comics.

2012 - CHRISTINE ELISE MCCARTHY Christine wrote, directed and starred in her short romance film called Bathing and the Single Girl, which she submitted in the 9th Oxford Film Festival. Bathing and the Single Girl is about a single woman in her thirties who is experiencing a “romantic drought.” She decides to broaden her horizons of who might make an acceptable boyfriend. The short film brings laughter and a raw, irreverent comedic look at some of the pitfalls of dating men you can talk yourself into,

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2015: Michael Steiner, Day One

2013: David Rae Morris, Drawing on a Dream rather than waiting for someone you cannot talk yourself out of. McCarthy is recognized primarily for her acting roles as Emily Valentine on 90210 (1991-1996), Kyle in Child’s Play 2 (1990), Harper Tracy on ER (1995-1996), and Karen Lanier on China Beach (1990-1991). She is currently starring in Get Shorty, a TV series adaptation of the novel and film for Epix, which will be in theatres in 2017.

2013 - DAVID RAE MORRIS David Rae Morris submitted a film with Susan Dobbs in the 2013 Oxford Film Festival called Drawing on a Dream. Morris is a director, writer and producer who submitted a Yazoo Revisited: Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town in 2015. This hour and 24-minute documentary re-examines race relations and the 1970 integration of public schools in Yazoo City, Miss. Morris documents whether the integration was truly successful through interviews with former students, faculty, and administrators.

2014 - JOSHUA AND MILES MILLER Joshua John Miller was born in Los Angeles, CA. His brother Miles Miller and himself submitted The Discontentment of Ed Telfair for the 11th Oxford Film Festival. Joshua is an actor and writer known for The Mao Game (1999), Near Dark (1987), and his most recent

2015 - MICHAEL STEINER Michael Steiner was the Hoka winner for producing a short 25-minute drama called Day One in the 2015 Oxford Film Festival. Day One is about a woman who is an interpreter for the US Army, and on her first day in Afghanistan she is forced to deliver the child of an enemy bomb-maker. Steiner is also known for Meet the Patels (2014), Starman (2014), and his most recent, Chicken People (2016). Chicken People is a funny and up-lifting documentary of show chickens and the people who love them. Steiner follows three top competitors over the course of a year as they grapple with life’s challenges while vying to win the next year’s crown.

2016 - MONNIE WILLS Monnie Wills produced a romantic crime thriller called What Lola Wants, which was shown at last year’s Oxford Film Festival. What Lola Wants is about a seventeen-year-old Lola Franklin who runs away from home but allows everyone else to think she’s been kidnapped.

She falls in love with a boy named Marlo as she’s making her way across the country. Marlo finds out about the huge reward for returning her home safely and must confront his own past to make a decision to either take her back or continue to help in her journey. Wills is also known for helping produce The Darkest Hour (2011), Miss March (2001), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), and Made in China (2009).

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All panels except the Conversation With and Kid Film Fest Panels are free, courtesy of SagIndie, Seed & Spark, OxFilm Society & Theatre Oxford. The children’s workshops are part of the Kid Film Fest ticket which is $10 and includes free film screenings on Sunday.

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50 film festivals including The Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner, Oxford Film Festival and HollyShorts, among others. He has previously worked as a special effects artist in TV and film, as well as a professional DJ and breakdancer. Gabriel, a member of The Actor’s Studio, loves flea markets and is always searching for a story to capture.

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Julie is co-author of Social Media Charm School, a social media guide for filmmakers, available for free on the Seed&Spark site. Play with her on Twitter as @KingIsAFink

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Come have some coffee on us and enjoy some mingling with other female filmmakers. An informal discussion will be held about the ups and downs of filmmaking in 2017 for women filmmakers.

Small Town Gay Bar Panel Discussion Ticketed event.

Friday, 5:30 pm, Malco Commons Join filmmaker Malcolm Ingram and special guests as they discuss the continuing struggles of the LGBTQ community in the Deep South 10 years after the film’s release, following a screening of the film.

SATURDAY misbitsJunior: Stop Motion Animation Workshop age range: 8 - 15 12:30 - 3:15 pm, Powerhouse Sponsored by OxFilm Society Participants will use available materials to create a collaborative stop motion animation piece by choosing which materials to use and how.

Each child will have an opportunity to arrange a scene and/or shot during the workshop. The final animation will be compiled and shared with the families of participants as well as featured on the misbits: a new media art space website at www.misbitsnma.com.

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Valerie Guinn Polgar is a new media artist, educator, and founder of misbits: a new media art space. She currently lives in Oxford, Miss. with her husband and two young daughters. Valerie uses animation, video, and physical computing to create interactive and immersive artwork. Her work has been shown in NYC and the DC metro area.

Chasing Amy Live Script Reading Saturday, 1 pm, Shelter Sponsored by Theatre Oxford Theatre Oxford is proud to perform a reading of the 1997 classic film Chasing Amy. Written and directed by Kevin Smith, this romantic comedy revolves around sexuality, sexual history, and evolving friendships. This reading will be similar to when the cast first gets together with the director and other creative team members of a film production and performs a table-read of the script.

Teens: Demystifying The Business of Acting age range: 8 - 15 3:30 - 5:15 pm, Powerhouse Sponsored by SagIndie You need to network! No, you need a headshot first! No, blah, blah, blah. Learn how the acting business really works and demystify the he said / she said of how it’s done. This panel will offer insights for younger actors on how to stand out in the business by utilizing the best weapon an actor can have— their true selves.

CAUTION: You might learn that this whole thing called acting is about playing and having fun.

Gabriel Furman of Queens, NY is an actor, dancer, comedian and writer. Gabriel has studied and performed comedy at UCB and The Pit. His recent acting credits include Netflix’s Daredevil, NBC’s Forever, Taxi Brooklyn, USA’s White Collar, Judas in The Actors Studio Production of Pulitzer Prize winning author Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, directed by Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons. He also starred

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opposite Ellen Burstyn as Yasha in The Actors Studio Production of The Cherry Orchard.

Gabriel also wrote, produced and starred opposite Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo in Mother’s Day. The award-winning short film was chosen as an Official Selection in over 50 film festivals including The Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner, Oxford Film Festival and HollyShorts, among others. He has previously worked as a special effects artist in TV and film, as well as a professional DJ and breakdancer. Gabriel, a member of The Actor’s Studio, loves flea markets and is always searching for a story to capture.

Chasing Amy Panel Discussion Ticketed event.

Saturday, 7:30 pm at Gertrude Ford Performing Arts Center with panel discussion following.

Join Moderator Mark Bell as he discusses with special guests the endurance of Chasing Amy after the anniversary screening .

daughters. Valerie uses animation, video, and physical computing to create interactive and immersive artwork. Her work has been shown in NYC and the DC metro area.

LGBTQ Panel Sunday, following the 12:45 pm LGBTQ winner screening, Malco Join LGBT filmmakers as they discuss filmmaking.

Moderator Eric D. Snider has been a film critic and journalist since 1999, first for “newspapers” (back when those were a thing), and now for the Internet.

He co-hosts the “Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider” podcast and posts everything he writes at EricDSnider.com. He lives in sunny Portland, Ore.

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SUNDAY misbits: Pixilation Animation and Animated GIFs Workshop age range: 13 + Sponsored by OxFilm Society Sunday, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, Malco Creating appropriate lighting for stop motion animation as well as frame-by-frame animation topics will be discussed. Participants will create a collaborative pixilation animation, which is frame by frame animation involving human subjects. Images captured will be turned into an animated GIF, an easy to store and share animation file. Various techniques for creating animated GIFs will be covered. The final animation will be compiled and shared with the participants as well as featured on the misbits: a new media art space website at www.misbitsnma.com

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An Atlanta native, Charles is a veteran film festival organizer and programmer with over a decade of experience. Currently, he’s the programming and communications director for TERMINUS Conference + Festival, a film and gaming event for emerging creators.

Previously, he was Artistic Director for the Atlanta Film Festival, where he was on staff for over seven years. In 2014, he created and launched Film Bar Mondays, a weekly event for filmmakers in Atlanta, which has sister events in Jacksonville and Tampa Bay. As a mostly lapsed film critic and journalist, he also co-manages CinemATL, an online site covering film in Atlanta since 2005.

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Lee Caplin is a Hollywood producer and executor of the William Faulkner Literary Estate. He also founded PMC.com, a media company that owns and operates a number of entertainment brands including Variety Magazine and Women’s Wear Daily.

Don R. Lewis is a writer and filmmaker from Northern California. He earned a B.A. in screenwriting from Cal State Northridge and a Masters in Cinema Studies from San Francisco State. He’s been a Producer/ Director since 2010 and editor of Hammer to Nail since early 2014. When he’s not spending time with his daughter he enjoys movies, microbrews, Giants baseball and looking for a great story.

GUINEVERE TURNER Guinevere Turner is a writer, director and actor who has been working in film and TV since her 1994 debut film Go Fish.

Her acting roles include parts in The Watermelon Woman, Chasing Amy, American Psycho and Treasure Island. She teamed up with director Mary Harron to write the films American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page. She was a writer and story editor on Showtime’s The L Word, and she played a recurring character on that show. She has written and directed five short films, two of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her latest film, Kill Your Ego directed by Mary Harron in summer, 2017, follows the women who killed for Charles Manson at the beginning of their long prison term.

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AMY NICHOLSON Amy Nicholson is a documentary filmmaker and fugitive from the world of advertising. She shot her first short film in 2002.

Beauty School, a portrait of a quirky dog grooming school in NYC, premiered at Hot Docs and was broadcast on PBS and The Documentary Channel. Amy shot her first feature-length project - about a beauty pageant at a skinning competition - in 2005. After premiering at The Hamptons International, Muskrat Lovely went on to screen at many other festivals and won a coveted slot on the Emmy Award-winning Independent Lens. Amy completed a second feature in 2012. Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride sold out its premiere at DOC NYC,

was extended twice at the IFC Center, and qualified for an Oscar. Pickle, her most recent short film has also qualified for an Oscar after a nationwide theatrical run and numerous audience awards. Amy’s films have been reviewed by Variety, Indiewire, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She has launched a successful commercial directing career and is currently working on two new projects.

SKIZZ CYZYK Skizz Cyzyk is a filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, and film festival careerist.

He 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, 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 The Stents, Go Pills, The Jennifers, Garage Sale, Half Japanese, and Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band.

Shorts/Mississippi Shorts JULIE KECK Julie Keck tends to media and communication strategy at Seed&Spark.

She joined the team with 10 years of filmmaking experience and five of crowdfunding under her belt. Julie has run or consulted on crowdfunding projects that have raised over $300k total, and she’s spoken about social media for creatives, sustainable filmmaking, and audience engagement at SXSW, the University of Notre Dame, the Chicago International Film Festival, and more. Julie is co-author of Social Media Charm School, a social media guide for filmmakers, available for free on the Seed&Spark site. Play with her on Twitter at @KingIsAFink.

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ROSIE WONG Rosie Wong oversees the Industry Office for the Sundance Film Festival and outreach for the institute’s alumni community, which includes past program fellows and festival filmmakers. She has been on juries at a number of regional film festivals, including Starz Denver Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Milwaukee Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Ashland Film Festival, and most recently the RiverRun International Film Festival. She’s been a guest speaker on many film panels and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Film Festival Alliance.

Rosie has a B.A. in Literature and an M.F.A. in Producing, both from UCLA.

STEVE MONTAL Steve Montal has collaborated with over 100 film festivals throughout the world, serving as board member, programmer, jurist, organizer and panelist.

Montal served on the jury of Slamdance 2016 and wrote “Film Festivals and Markets” for The Movie Business Book, published by Focal Press in September 2016. Montal is the CEO of Caucho Technology, an open source software company that he co-founded in 1998.

Montal worked with the American Film Institute, where he launched the AFI Docs Film Festival and served as Director of Educational and Special Program Development. Montal was the founding associate dean of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking, where he was part of the team that developed a unique conservatory approach to film education.

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computing to create interactive and immersive artwork. Her work has been shown in NYC and the DC metro area.

EDWARD DOUGLAS For 15 years, Edward Douglas has been writing about movies, mostly at ComingSoon.net, but currently, he reviews movies for the New York Daily News, Film Journal and Den of Geek, while continuing his ongoing Weekend Warrior movie preview column at LRM Online. As much as he loves movies, he loves music and comic books even more.

GABRIEL FURMAN Gabriel Furman of Queens, NY is an actor, dancer, comedian and writer. Gabriel has studied and performed comedy at UCB and The Pit. His recent acting credits include Netflix’s Daredevil, NBC’s Forever, Taxi Brooklyn, USA’s White Collar, Judas in The Actors Studio Production of Pulitzer Prize winning author Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, directed by Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons. He also starred opposite Ellen Burstyn as Yasha in The Actors Studio Production of The Cherry Orchard.

Gabriel also wrote, produced and starred opposite Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo in Mother’s Day. The award-winning short film was chosen as an Official Selection in over 50 film festivals including The Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner, Oxford Film Festival and HollyShorts, among others. He has previously worked as a special effects artist in TV and film, as well as a professional DJ and Breakdancer. Gabriel, a member of The Actor’s Studio, loves flea markets and is always searching for a story to capture.

LGBTQ MALCOLM INGRAM

VALERIE GUINN POLGAR

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Valerie is a new media artist, educator, and founder of misbits: a new media art space. She currently lives in Oxford, Miss. with her husband and two young daughters.

Valerie uses animation, video, and physical

While on assignment for Film Threat magazine, Ingram met filmmaker Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Dogma, Clerks), who soon became his mentor. Smith financed Ingram’s first feature film, Drawing Flies, starring then rising talent Jason Lee. Shot in the

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summer of 1995, the comedy found success on the festival circuit and was released on DVD. Ingram’s next feature, Tail Lights Fade featured a high-profile, talented cast including Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Elizabeth Berkeley and Margot Kidder. The film, a delirious actioncomedy-drama, was released by Trimark/Lions Gate in 1999. His third film, the documentary Small Town Gay Bar, also executive produced

by Kevin Smith, has screened at over 100 film festivals around the globe. Making its world premiere at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the film received a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize and went on to get a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Best Documentary. It also garnered multiple awards including the HBO Award for Best Documentary at the Miami LGBT Film Festival and the Grand Jury Award at Outfest in Los Angeles. Ingram’s next film project, Bear Nation, premiered at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival and played over 50 film festivals before winning the Best Documentary at the Atlanta International Film Festival. His most recent documentary Out To Win tells the history of openly gay and lesbian professional athletes.

BRIGHID WHEELER Brighid Wheeler is director of operations for RocketFuel, a Memphisbased creative agency, and is the short films programmer for the Indie Memphis Film Festival.

Recently married, and a glutton for punishment, she is finally starting to regain her sanity from simultaneously planning a wedding and programming a seven day festival that she then worked ten days before her nuptials. When it comes to artistic obsessions, the only thing that rivals her love of film is her love of Biggie Smalls.

ROBBIE FISHER Robbie Fisher is a film producer and attorney living and working in Jackson, Mississippi.

Fisher has produced several award-winning documentaries including Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound, The Gulf Islands: Mississippi’s Wilderness Shore, Leadway, and A Mississippi Love Story (Mississippi Short Doc 2015 Spirit of the Hoka winner). She has produced a number of short narrative films, including Going Toward Love and Headrush, and a series of four short films written and directed by Alex Warren, collectively entitled Sequence. Fisher has also produced commercials and worked on feature films in Mississippi.

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Note: Ratings of Family Friendly are included and are not MPAA official, but a general guideline for families with children 8 and older. Very few films are suitable for children under 8 years old. If not rated Family Friendly, then the film likely has some language, sex or violence to make it a PG-13 or R level rating. Films also deal with a variety of topics that could be difficult for some adults, so please read the descriptions carefully before watching.

2017 FILMS

Venues

• Malco Commons (204 Commonwealth Blvd.)

• Oxford Conference Center (102 Ed Perry Blvd.)

• Powerhouse (413 South 14th St.) • Lyric Oxford (1006 Van Buren Ave.) • Gertrude Ford Center (351 University Ave.) • Shelter on Van Buren (1221 Van Buren Ave.) • Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library (401 Bramlett Blvd)

Animation, Juried Competition Animation films are shown at various times. Please note each film or the grid for schedule.

Fox And The Whale Director: Robin Joseph

TRT: 12:03

Country: Canada Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly Plays with To Keep The Light on Saturday, 11:00 am, Malco Commons

A Little Love Goes a Long Clay Director: Juliet Buckholdt

TRT: 3:20

Country: United States (Mississippi) OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays in LGBT Shorts on Friday, 3:30 pm, Malco Commons; Plays in Kid Film Fest on Sunday, 1 pm, Powerhouse Logline: This video was made as a school project about stopping social media bullying.

Logline: The tale of a curious fox who goes in search of an elusive whale. A journey of pursuit, longing and discovery.

Invisible Director: Michael Trikosko, Andrew Wilson

TRT: 3:14

Country: United States (New Jersey) Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Some Freaks Saturday, 2:30 pm, Malco Commons; Plays in Kid Film Fest on Sunday, 1 pm, Powerhouse

Evocation of a Nightmare Director: Wally Chung

TRT: 1:20

Country: United States (New York) World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Friday, 10:30 pm, Malco Commons Logline: Entering what seems to be a deserted building, a man explores and finds an unwanted guest.

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Logline: Set deep in the rainforest during a school dance, a shy chameleon seeks the attention of his crush. Unfortunately he is so nervous that he can’t help but turn invisible.

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Itching, The Director: Dianne Bellino

TRT: 15:00

Country: United States (New York) Mississippi Premiere Plays with She’s Allergic to Cats on Saturday, 10 pm, Malco Commons Logline: In this handmade collaboration, a shy wolf tries to connect with a group of hip, party-loving bunnies, but finds her body in revolt.

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Panic Attack!

Director: Eileen O’Meara

TRT: 3:20

Country: United States (California) Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Gold Star Friday, 6 pm, Malco Commons Logline: This hand-drawn animation explores anxiety, obsession, and one woman’s slippery hold on reality.

The Magnifying Glass assists micro-budgeted, expediently produced short films that aggressively investigate social injustice.

Applications opening soon for Indiana and Tennessee.

For more details, email: info@artlessmedia.com

Rabbit Blood Director: Yagmur Altan

TRT: 4:36

Country: Turkey Mississippi Premiere Plays with All the Birds Have Flown South Saturday, 12:15 pm, Malco Commons Logline: Just an ordinary day at an old mysterious Turkish country house where its residents have an extraordinary way of brewing tea.

Stamped Director: Sharmaine Urbiztondo

TRT: 2:37

Country: New Zealand Regional Premiere, Family Friendly Plays in Kid Film Fest on Sunday, 1 pm, Powerhouse Logline: In a grand library, the tiny gnome librarian, Giles, stamps the few books he has left to get through the night.

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Documentary Feature Juried Competition

Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World Director: Nicholas Edwards

TRT: 1:19:42

Country: United States Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with The Boatman, Friday 3:45 pm, Malco Commons

Disturbing the Peace Director: Stephen Apkon, Andrew Young

TRT: 1:26:00

Country: United States Regional Premiere Time: Saturday, 5:45 pm, Malco Commons Logline: The film follows everyday people who took extraordinary actions by standing for what they believe in, just like those who came before them.

Logline: The vessel is Infinity, a 120 ft hand-built gypsy boat, crewed by a band of miscreants. The journey, an 8,000 mile Pacific crossing, from New Zealand to Patagonia, with a stop in Antarctica.

Swim Team Director: Lara Stolman

TRT: 1:30:00

Country: United States Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Perfectly Normal, Saturday, 1:30 pm, Malco Commons

First Lady of the Revolution Director: Andrea Kalin

TRT: 1:07:33

Country: Costa Rica, United States Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Refuge, Friday, 1:30 pm, Malco Commons Logline: While visiting an aunt and uncle in the exotic countryside of Costa Rica, a young Southern belle from Alabama accepts a ride on the back of a motorcycle belonging to a charismatic local farmer—a ride that would propel her down narrow mountain roads and into history.

Documentary Short Juried Competition All films play in the Documentary Shorts block Friday at 10:30 am at Malco Commons and Friday 3:45 pm at Shelter on Van Buren unless otherwise noted.

Girl Unbound: The War to be With Her Director: Erin Heidenreich

Logline: Swim Team chronicles the extraordinary rise of the Jersey Hammerheads, capturing a moving quest for inclusion, independence and a life that feels winning.

TRT: 1:20:00

Boatman, The

Country: Canada

Director: Zack Godshall

Time: Saturday, 1:15 pm, Malco Commons

Country: United States (Louisiana)

Logline: Waziristan “one of the most dangerous places on earth,” where sports are forbidden to women, a female athlete becomes a rising star despite death threats.

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TRT: 13:25

OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Sea Gypsies, Friday 3:45 pm, Malco Commons Logline: As Joseph and Selina Gonzales approach their 71st wedding anniversary, they reflect on endurance, love and fortitude after years of living outside the flood walls in Yscloskey Beach, Louisiana.

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Carousel, The Director: Jonathan Napolitano

Lives Restarted TRT: 12:00

Sponsored by: Jewish Federation of Oxford

Country: United States (Connecticut)

Director: Waheed AlQawasmi

Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Country: United States (Tennessee)

Plays in Documentary Shorts Block

Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays in Documentary Shorts Block

Logline: In Binghamton, New York there spins a 1925 carousel that once inspired Rod Serling, and has since become a portal into...the Twilight Zone.

Logline: Lives Restarted is a documentary that traces the lives of Holocaust survivors after their release from the camps and their individual journeys to find freedom in the U.S.

I, Whiskey: The Human Spirit Director: Pip Gilmour

TRT: 38:42

TRT: 7:38

Perfectly Normal

Country: United States (Washington, D.C)

Director: Joris Debeij

Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Country: United States (California)

Time: Friday, 6 pm, Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival

Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

TRT: 11:57

Plays with Swim Team, Saturday, 3:30 pm, Malco Commons

Logline: Whiskey is the story of how the human spirit thrives when it has the freedom to connect and create.

Logline: A man who often seems lost in an imaginary world works hard to keep his feet on the ground, proving that one can make deliberate choices to maintain stability.

Little Kurdistan Director: Ava Lowrey

TRT: 11:22

Country: United States (Tennessee)

Pickle

OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Director: Amy Nicholson

Time: Friday, 6 pm, Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival

Country: United States (New York)

Logline: Just off of Nolensville Pike on the southern outskirts of Music City lies Little Kurdistan - a thriving community of Kurdish immigrants and new generations of KurdishAmericans.

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TRT: 15:20

OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays in Documentary Shorts Block Logline: Let us reflect on the brief existence of Pickle the fish. Although he could not swim, he was lovingly cared for by a couple that kept him propped up in a sponge.

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REFUGE Director: Matthew Firpo

TRT: 20:00

Country: Greece Plays with First Lady of the Revolution, Saturday, 1:30 pm, Malco Commons Logline: Refuge is a chronicle of human stories from the European Refugee Crisis, focused on humanity and hope.

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Soul City Director: Monica Berra, SheRea DelSol, Gini Richards TRT: 19:57 Country: United States (North Carolina) Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

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Plays in Documentary Shorts Block Logline: Soul City tells the story of a group of civil rights activists and city slickers who attempt to build a multiracial utopia in the heart of Klan country, North Carolina in the 1970s.

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Through The Wall Director: Tim Nackashi

TRT: 6:20

Country: United States (California) Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays in Documentary Shorts Block Logline: A short documentary about a family divided by the US/Mexico border.

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Experimental Juried Competition All experimental films play as part of a block on Friday at 1:15 pm and a free encore on Saturday at 3:30 pm at Shelter on Van Buren.

Director: Soyeon Kim

TRT: 2:30

Country: United States (California) OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere Logline: Abstract impressions of imagery of the deep woods.

A Stones Throw Away Director: Brian Ratigan

Deep in the Woods

TRT: 3:15

Country: USA (New York) OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Étude 1a: Release (I)

Logline: Drowning in isolation, a lonely soul finds a machine that can render artificial nostalgia for a price.

Directors: Russell Sheaffer, Aaron Michael Smith TRT: 4:30 Country: USA (California) OXFF Alum, World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Black River Director: Andre Silva Country: United States (North Carolina)

TRT: 4:00

Logline: Exploring the musical concept of “release,” this film is a haunting found-footage study in the plurality of visual and auditory meanings of the term.

OXFF Alum, Regional Premiere, Family Friendly

Fall

Logline: An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that is home to the oldest trees east of the Rocky Mountains.

Director: Bradley Rappa

USA Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.

Cup of Stars Director: Betschart Bros.

TRT: 3:30

Country: United States (California) Mississippi premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: A vivid tableau of tenderness, Cup of Stars finds two brothers under a cool night sky, fishing for stars and supernovas.

Using dream logic under their own bizarre terms, the Betschart Bros. subtly express, through a smearing of light and the telling of folk tales, ideas of growing up as siblings in Southern California.

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TRT: 6:30

Country: United States (New York)

Logline: Fall is a processoriented, high definition experimental film that incorporates time-lapse digital photography, 16mm contact printing, HD video, and an elaborate sound design to allegorically portray the detrimental environmental costs of rampant and unsustainable technological development.

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Holy Ghost Director: Jeffrey Ruggles

TRT: 1:45

Country: USA (California)

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

113 South 9th Street • Oxford, Mississippi 38655 • 662-234-1269 Sundays

OXFF Alum, World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

7:45 a.m. - Holy Eucharist, Rite I, No Music 9:00 a.m. - Holy Eucharist, Rite II, Family Music 11:00 a.m. - Holy Eucharist, Rite II, Choral Liturgy

Logline: An improvisational animation set to the minimalist guitar music of Taku Sugimoto.

4:30 p.m. - Holy Eucharist, Rite II, College Service 6:00 p.m. - Holy Eucharist, Rite II, in Spanish

Wednesdays 5:30 p.m. - Holy Eucharist and Healing, Rite II

Our mission is to share the love of Christ which transforms lives.

Director: Thad Lee

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I of the Storm TRT: 9:10

Country: United States (Louisiana) OXFF Alum, World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

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Logline: New Orleans poet Bill Lavender narrates his experience of Hurricane Katrina, accompanied by footage shot from his phone.

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Lithics Director: Edward Ramsay-Morin

TRT: 3:51

Country: United States (Texas) OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Mississippi Premiere Logline: Set in a timeless, ambiguous space populated with archetypal characters, Lithics references the themes and motifs of origin myths.

News from the Sun Director: Brendan & Jeremy Smyth

TRT: 3:30

Country: United States (North Carolina) Regional Premiere, Family Friendly Logline: An apocalyptic narrative unfolds through the words of The Sun, a British tabloid created by media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

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Now Appearing in Bucharest Director: Robert Lawrence

Trader, The TRT: 3:38

Country: United States/Romania

Director: Manuel Alvarez Diestro, Sergio Belinchon TRT: 12:06 Country: Spain OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: Bucharest may or may not be the Paris of the East, but it certainly is a daily dance between history and the present.

Logline: A successful stock trader decides to start a journey far from the trading floor.

Ode to the Port Director: Desiree Dawn Kapler

TRT: 4:37

Country: United States (Virginia) OXFF Alum, Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Director: Josh Yates

Logline: A filmmaker poetically recalls her experience with childhood cancer.

Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

TRT: 00:04:53

Country: United States, Ohio OXFF Alum, Regional Premiere, Family Friendly Logline: Periphery is a 3D computer animation featuring an excerpt from Sir Alfred Hitchcock’s film Stage Fright projected through a shape-shifting crystalline screen.

Director: Dawn George

TRT: 6:45

Country: Canada Regional Premiere, Family Friendly.

TRT: 3:24

Country: United States (Mississippi) OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: A short experimental film that captures the feeling of an existential, macrocosm of the universe.

Logline: An audio-visual threnody that occupies a reflexive space between nonfictional portraiture and ethnographic dreamscape.

Inspired by the personal and collective trauma stemming from last year’s devastating flood in South Carolina (October 2016).

We R the World/Mold

SWABS Director: Christina Huff

TRT: 4:27

Country: United States (South Carolina)

Periphery Director: Kimberly Burleigh

Underbelly Up

Logline: Close up, mold is an intricate mass of branching filaments and fruiting bodies creating a connected web. When viewed from a distance mold loses its complexities and a more destructive nature is realized.

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The LGBTQ Shorts will play on Friday at 3:30 pm at Malco Commons.

Features and shorts paired with them have screening times indicated below.

A Doll’s Eyes Director: Jonathan Wysocki

(HEAD SMACK) TALK TO SAGindie TRT: 12:10

Country: United States (California) Regional Premiere, Family Friendly Plays with The Happys on Saturday, 2:30 pm, Malco Commons Logline: Haunted by the movie Jaws since childhood, a filmmaker discovers why the movie affected him so deeply.

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World Premiere Plays with Horizon Saturday 4:45 pm, Malco Commons

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Logline: A short documentary on the Mississippi Coast’s reaction to House Bill 1523 approved by Governor Bryant that gives people the right to discriminate against LGBTQ people based on their religious beliefs.

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TRT: 9:44

Country: United States (New York) Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend Plays in LGBTQ Shorts Block Logline: When a young man suffering from anorexia is pressured to eat breakfast by his boyfriend, the couple are thrust into an otherworld where their anxieties and frustrations are made horrifyingly real.

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Camille A. Brown & Dancers Thursday, March 2 • 7:30 p.m.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

Sunday, March 5 • 7:30 p.m.

Dance Alive National Ballet Dec. 15 at 7 p.m.

Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring

UM OPERA THEATRE WITH FULL ORCHESTRA

Saturday, April 22 • 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 23 • 3:00 p.m.

Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.

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Tuesday, April 25 • 7:30 p.m.

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March 15 at 7 p.m.

Rosanne Cash,The River and the Thread March 21 at 7 p.m.

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Chance Director: Jake Graf

HORIZON TRT: 16:11

Director: Stephan Elliott

TRT: 55:00

Country: United Kingdom

Country: Australia

Regional Premiere, Family Friendly

USA Premiere

Plays with How Love Won Saturday at noon, Malco Commons

Plays with All Are Welcome Here, Saturday 4:45 pm, Malco Commons

Logline: Trevor’s life has become a void following the passing of his wife and long term companion, Doris. A chance encounter in the park with a mysterious stranger equally troubled by his own dark past jarringly reawakens him, and forces both men to once again start to live.

Logline: Queer as Folk meets Sydney’s Oxford Street in an explosion of color and drama. In life, love and sex, what we crave is often at odds with who we are.

How Love Won: The Fight For Marriage Equality

Dawn Director: Joseph Longo

Director: Michael McIntee TRT: 22:02

TRT: 1:21:58

Country: United States (Minnesota)

Country: United States (New York)

Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

World Premiere

Plays with Chance, Saturday at noon, Malco Commons

Plays in LGBTQ Shorts Block

Logline: A brilliant and emotionally powerful documentary about the moment that changed everything in the battle for same-sex marriage. Go behind the scenes and discover the secret psychological weapon Minnesota LGBT activists deployed in this ‘unwinnable’ campaign that had failed in 30 other states.

Logline: A young man returns from war after the death of his father to discover more has changed than he anticipated.

Friday The 14th Director: Lucas Omar

TRT: 6:27

Country: United States (Florida) Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays in LGBTQ Shorts Block Logline: When a closeted nerd shows up to a psychotic girl’s Valentine’s Day party, he’s trapped as the only guest for a night full of heart attacks.

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My Big Fat Lesbian Bat Mitzvah Sponsored by Jewish Federation of Oxford Director: Elyssa Gershman

TRT: 18:04

Country: United States (New York) Mississippi Premiere.

Plays in LGBTQ Shorts Block Logline: Fifty-eight year old Judy is having a bat mitzvah at her LGBT Jewish temple as a way to come out to her orthodox Jewish father, Joshua.

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SWIRL

Weddings, Private Parties, Corporate Gatherings, Reunions

Director: Lance McDaniel

TRT: 6:16

Country: United States (Oklahoma) Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays in LGBTQ Shorts Block Logline: SWIRL is the story of a boy’s first crush told through dance, exploring the journey your mind takes the first time you touch someone you love. www.FirstandGreenGrenada.com

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The Happys Director: Tom Gould, John Serpe

TRT: 1:27:17

Country: United States (California) Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with A Doll’s Eyes on Saturday, 2:30 pm, Malco Commons Logline: Twenty-one year old Tracy walks in on her newly minted ‘movie star’ boyfriend having sex with a man. After assessing her limited options, she returns to Mark with a deal if he agrees to marry her, she’ll forget the whole thing ever happened. The cast includes Janeane Garofalo and The Walking Dead’s Melissa McBride, with an original score by Patrick Sansone (Wilco).

The Yoga Bridge Director: Michael Orlando

TRT: 6:25

Country: Canada World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays in LGBTQ Shorts Block Logline: Two friends - one white, one First Nations - fight over Vancouver’s failed attempt to close a major bridge for citizens to do yoga on National Aboriginal Day.

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Woman On Fire Director: Julie Sokolow

TRT: 1:35:00

Country: United States (New York)

Mississippi Features Juried Competition

Regional Premiere, Family Friendly.

Time: Friday, 11 am, Malco Commons

Atoning, The

Logline: As a third-generation firefighter, Brooke Guinan has a passion for heroism that runs in her blood. But when Brooke transitions from male to female in her father’s workplace, it poses not only a challenge to a macho profession, but also to the customs of the people she cares about the most - her traditional family.

Director: Michael Williams

You Deserve Everything Director: Goran Stolevski

TRT: 18:30

Country: Australia World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays in LGBTQ Shorts Block Logline: A doctor’s tentative romance with the hospital’s Arabic interpreter is evolving into something deeper. But everything is not as it seems.

Virtual Reality

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 16 — February 19 to experience virtual reality films.

This is the second year the festival has included a variety of VR experiences and we hope that you enjoy this year’s slate of films and our lounge area with a full bar.

See the Virtual Reality film descriptions on pages 42-44.

Also on display at the Powerhouse Gallery:

LOVE, ART & NON-PROFITS (FEBRUARY) Artist may choose non-profit organization or designate one of the local YAC partner non-profits for the event, or one of the local nonprofits the YAC has partnered with for the event.

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TRT: 1:31:00

World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Two Birds Saturday at 1:45 pm, Oxford Conference Center and Saturday at 5 pm, Malco Commons Logline: Vera, Ray, and Sam, a seemingly normal family, are haunted by more than mere ghosts.

The lingering horror of their past threatens their ability to function as a loving family until they become enlightened by a mystical encounter. From that moment on, they’re thrust into a horror worse than anything they’ve ever experienced. Personal demons manifest and tear the family apart from the inside out as they come to terms with their past.

Don’t Come Around Here Director: Navid Sanati

TRT: 1:35:21

Mississippi Premiere, FIlmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Friday, 12:15 pm, Oxford Conference Center and Friday, 3 pm, Malco Commons Logline: When he learns that his father may not have much longer to live, Chuck goes back to the home he ran away from.

There he must come to terms with his troubled brother Lenny, his own fears, and a secret he has been hiding for years.

Late Blossom Blues Director: Wolfgang Pfoser-Almer, Stefan Wolner

TRT: 1:29:30

Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Sammy Long and Less Hell, More Angel, Friday at 2:15 pm, Malco Commons and Saturday at 11:45 am, Oxford Conference Center Logline: Born in 1932 in rural segregated Mississippi, Blues and Gospel singer Leo “Bud” Welch has been a poor man all his life, working hard in the cotton fields and the woods. In 2013, after decades of missed opportunities and gigs in local Juke Joints and churches, a Gulf War veteran management rookie teams up with him to take the Blues world by storm.

February 15-19, 2017

Mississippi Shorts Juried Competition Mississippi Narrative Short Block plays Friday at 12:45 pm, Malco Commons and Saturday, 4 pm, Oxford Conference Center. Mississippi Documentary Shorts play at various times. See film description for detail.

Bare Knuckle Director: Wade Patterson

TRT: 16:00

OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Narrative Short Block Logline: The Boxer, a quiet man with a history of losing fights, comes to Mickey McDonnell begging to be put on a card, but the only thing he can offer the failed pugilist is an impossible match with Bruiser, an unbeaten brute twice the boxer’s size. If he loses then he owes Mickey twenty fights as payback.

Less Hell, More Angel Director: Christian D’Andrea

TRT: 11:20

World Premiere, Family Friendly Plays with Sammy Long and Late Blossom Blues, Friday at 2:15 pm, Malco Commons and Saturday at 11:45 am, Oxford Conference Center Logline: In Mississippi, I came across black and white biker clubs doing something surprising... hugging. And blessing each other.

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Monsters Anonymous Director: Jeremy London Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Narrative Short Block Logline: A short film comedy about the classic monsters in a group therapy session coming to terms with the fact that they aren’t scary anymore.

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Otha Turner

Shabati

Director: Ava Lowrey

TRT: 6:02

Director: Inés Joris

TRT: 21:53

Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Music videos and Shake Em On Down, Saturday at 1:30 pm, Malco Commons

Narrative Short Block Logline: Shabati is a story about young love between two Computer Science students. It deals with the effect recent history and political events can have on an individual’s fate whether they choose it or not, with a touch of science fiction and the struggle between reason and spirituality.

Logline: In the late 1950’s, fife and drum legend Otha Turner began hosting annual Labor Day picnics at his property in Gravel Springs, Mississippi. This short documentary film digs into the archives to take us back in time to Labor Day 1978.

Prisma

Telekinetic Tim

Director: Coop Cooper

TRT: 9:13

Director: Chris Floyd

TRT: 13:18

World Premiere, OXFF Alum, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Mississippi Premiere,Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Narrative Short Block

Narrative Short Block

Logline: A corporate promotional VHS tape from 1984 conceals a hidden signal which is said to grant increased health, longevity and psychic powers to those who watch it. View at your own risk.

Logline: A college student struggles to live with his new roommates, one of which claims to have telekinesis, the other a silent but loyal sidekick.

Sammy Long: Woodturner Director: Roy A. Adkins

TRT: 3:19

Tinker

Family Friendly

Director: Glenn Payne

Plays with Less Hell, More Angel and Late Blossom Blues Friday at 2:15 pm, Malco Commons and Saturday at 11:45 am, Oxford Conference Center

Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

TRT: 18:26

Logline: A short documentary about Sammy Long’s wood turnings and carvings.

Logline: Lenny Hale is a down on his luck inventor who just wants the world to run more smoothly and to make a sale. He’s prepared to take on overly enthusiastic security guards and cutthroat cookie peddlers, but when it comes to facing his own demons it sometimes feels like there are some things tools can’t fix.

Narrative Short Block, and free encore in the Kid Film block on Sunday, 1 pm at the Powerhouse

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You Focus On The Shot

We’ll Focus On The Rest Congratulations To The Filmmakers

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Optimized Digital and Film Camera Systems.

Inspired Engineering. World Wide Service. www.panavision.com

Venue Tuesday February 14

Lyric Theatre

Wednesday, February 15

Powerhouse

Thursday, February 16

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

Noon

01:00 PM

02:00 PM

Powerhouse Gallery

03:00 PM

Virtual Reality

Lyric Theatre Female Filmmaker Coffee Hour

Shelter on Van Buren Powerhouse Gallery

Virtual Reality

Powerhouse Theatre

Fest Forward: New Media Shorts

Conference Center Friday, February 17

Don’t Come Around Here

Malco Screen 1

Mississippi Narrati

Documentary Shorts

Sponsored by MaxxSouth

Mississippi Shorts

Community Films

Malco Screen 2

Seed & Spark Panel

Malco Screen 3

Woman on Fire

Malco Screen 4

Acting Panel

Venue

New Media Panel

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

Don’t Come Arou Shorts & Late Blossom Blues

Refuge & First Lady of the Revolution Experimental Block

Noon

01:00 PM

Shelter on Van Buren

LGBTQ

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Chasing Amy Script Reading

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To Keep The Light

Malco Screen 4 Venue

Music Videos, Shorts & Shake Em On Down

Stronger than Bullets

Malco Screen 3

Invisible/Some Freaks

Girl Unbound

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Virtual Reality

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Malco Screen 1

Music Video/Doc Winner

Sponsored by MaxxSouth

Malco Screen 2 Malco Screen 3 Malco Screen 4

Kid Fil The Hybr

Kid Film Fest Shorts

Animation and Gif Workshop

Mississippi Winners

LGBTQ Winner & Panel Best of Louisiana Film Prize Secret Screening

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Narrative Sh Doc Feature Winner

04:00 PM

05:00 PM

06:00 PM

07:00 PM

08:00 PM

09:00 PM

010:00 PM

011:00 PM

Midnight

William Eggleston in the Real World Community Shorts

Thacker Mountain Radio Documentary Shorts

Strange Weather

Midnight Express

Food + Film Fest

ive Shorts

Joel Blass

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Small Town Gay Bar and Panel Jackson

Gypsies & The Boatman

Q Shorts

I Am Not Your Negro Panic Attack & Gold Star

Fest Forward: New Media Shorts

04:00 PM

Kudzu Zombies

05:00 PM

06:00 PM

07:00 PM

The Quirky Side Shorts

The After Dark Side Shorts

Gunner Jackson & The Other Kids 08:00 PM

09:00 PM

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Gunner Jackson & The Other Kids

Midnight Return Chasing Amy Anniversary Screening + Panel Two Birds & The Atoning

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Normal & Swim Team

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Anti Matter

She’s Allergic to Cats

Dramatic Shorts Disturbing the Peace

All Are Welcome Here & Horizon 05:00 PM

06:00 PM

07:00 PM

08:00 PM

09:00 PM

Gun Crazy

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Two Birds

EMISORA

Director: Miles Doleac

TRT: 16:43

Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Director: Philip Scarborough and Tom Beck

TRT: 5:20

OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with The Atoning Saturday at 1:45 pm, Oxford Conference Center and Saturday at 5 pm, Malco Commons

Logline: A song that makes you feel like anything is possible.

Logline: In post-World War II America, a young woman, hiding from her abusive husband in a flophouse, receives an unexpected visitor, and proves herself far more than a victim.

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Mississippi Music Video Juried Competition Music Videos Play Saturday at 1:30 pm with Otha Turner and Shake Em On Down

Director: Deja Samuel

TRT: 3:19

Mississippi Premiere Logline: Music video for song “magic.8” by music artist Alex Presley.

Broken Paths Director: J.B Lawrence

TRT: 4:44

Family Friendly, Filmmakers are scheduled to attend.

Me & My Gal / Tate Moore Director: Tate Moore

Logline: Debut music video filmed in Brandon, Miss.

Created by Stace and Cassie and J. B. Lawrence.

TRT: 4:01

OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: Music video for Tate Moore of Kudzu Kings

Catching Hell, The Great Dying Director: Alex Thiel

TRT: 5:00

Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: Music video filmed at The Local Voice studios in Oxford, Miss. featuring The Great Dying (Will “Billy Shakes” Griffith and Kell “Falcon Kell” Kellum).

She’s Got Such a Lovely Pair Director: Coop Cooper

TRT: 3:08

OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: A music video performed in Clarksdale, Mississippi by Gary Vincent.

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Wayward Wind / Jimbo Mathus Director: Rick Guy

Shake ‘Em On Down TRT: 2:57

Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Director: Joe York

TRT: 00:56:40

Country: United States, Mississippi Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: “Wayward Wind”

by Mississippi artist Jimbo Mathus

Plays with Otha Turner and Music Videos Saturday 1:30 pm, Malco Commons Logline: Shake ‘Em On Down tells the story of Mississippi Fred McDowell, the godfather of the North Mississippi style of blues.

Music Documentaries Juried Competition

Stronger than Bullets Director: Matthew Millan

Acoustic Ninja Director: Robert Bevis

TRT: 7:30

Country: United States Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Stronger than Bullets Saturday 11:15 am, Malco Commons Logline: Trace Bundy, the fan-dubbed “Acoustic Ninja,” has never been interested in the fame and glamour offered by the mainstream music industry.

Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly although does have some violence depicted in news footage. Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Acoustic Ninja Saturday 11:15 am, Malco Commons Logline: Libya, 2011: Amidst the bloody revolution to overthrow the tyrant Moammar Gaddafi, a defiant music scene emerges from the dust of war.

Two Trains Runnin’

Arkansas Wild Man, The Director: Nathan Willis

TRT: 01:27:58

Country: United States/Libya

Director: Sam Pollard TRT: 00:18:38

TRT: 01:22:00

Country: United States, Mississippi

Country: United States, Arkansas

Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with The Arkansas Wild Man Saturday 3:45 pm, Malco Commons

Plays with Two Trains Runnin Saturday 3:45 pm, Malco Commons Logline: An 87-year-old rock and roll pioneer who lives a life of obscurity in his small Arkansas hometown travels overseas to England to play one final concert for his passionate and loyal fanbase there.

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Logline: Two Trains Runnin’ is about the search for two forgotten blues singers, set in Mississippi during the height of the civil rights movement.

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Narrative Feature Juried Competition All the Birds Have Flown South Director: Josh and Miles Miller

TRT: 1:38:00

Country: United States (Arkansas) OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere, Filmmakers are scheduled to attend.

Plays with Rabbit Blood Saturday 12:15 pm, Malco Commons Logline: After the death of his overbearing mother, a sheltered man attempts to win the affection of a degenerate waitress by caring for her terminally ill and abusive husband. Soon all three lives begin to unravel as obsession and disease consume them all.

Anti Matter Director: Keir Burrows

TRT: 1:14:00

Country: United Kingdom International Premiere Time: Saturday, 7:15 pm, Malco Commons Logline: Anti-Matter is a sci-fi noir take on the Alice in Wonderland tale. Ana, an Oxford PhD student, finds herself unable to build new memories following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole.

The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find out who - or what - is behind the rising horror in her life.

Gold Star Director: Victoria Negri

TRT: 1:30:21

Country: United States (New York) Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Panic Attack! Friday at 6 pm, Malco Commons Logline: After dropping out of Juilliard, Vicki drifts aimlessly between her family’s house in Connecticut and an itinerant existence in New York. When her father suffers a debilitating stroke, she has to become his primary caretaker.

Vicki resists connecting with him and making peace with herself, but she finds a way forward thanks to a new friend and a life-changing event.

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Some Freaks Director: Ian MacAllister-McDonald

TRT: 1:35:00

Country: United States (California) Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with Invisible Saturday at 2:30 pm, Malco Commons Logline: When one-eyed high school senior Matt meets 250 lb Jill, he falls more in love than he ever thought possible.

However, when graduation comes and Jill moves across the country to go to college, she subsequently loses over 50 lbs much to Matt’s surprise when he arrives to visit her. While Matt struggles to accept Jill’s new body, Jill begins to question whether Matt is really the man she wants to date. As the distance widens between them, the characters are propelled onto a collision course with brutality and loss, forcing them to confront who they are, who they were, and who everyone thinks they’re supposed to be.

To Keep The Light Director: Erica Fae

Narrative Shorts Juried Competition Narrative shorts play in three blocks at Malco Oxford Commons, notated with each film below.

The Quirky Side plays Friday at 8:15 pm The After Dark Side plays Friday at 10:30 pm The Life Happens Side plays Saturday at 6:15 pm

Arrow of Light Director: Christian Walker

TRT: 19:53

Country: United States (Louisiana) OXFF Alum, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

The Life Happens Side Logline: Following the suicide of his best friend, a father takes his two young boys to pay a grisly but sweet homage.

TRT: 1:28:00

Country: United States (New York) Regional Premiere Plays with Fox and the Whale, Saturday at 11:00 am, Malco Commons Logline: Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper’s wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century Maine. When a mysterious stranger washes up on shore, secrets buried in deep waters come to light, and she is forced to confront both her past and her future.

Sonny Burgess and the Pacers first time live in Oxford since 1940s!

Proud Larrys February 17 Doors open at 8 pm, Show at 9 $15 - proceeds benefit Oxford Film Festival See them play Friday and then see their film Arkansas Wild Man on Saturday!

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Big City Director: Jordan Bond, Lachlan Ryan

TRT: 9:00

Country: Australia Regional Premiere The Life Happens Side Logline: Vijay, a lonely taxi driver who recently moved to Melbourne, picks up Chris, a stray drunk. Over the course of the night, Chris experiences some of Vijay’s nightly troubles, and Vijay learns to see the city in a new light.

Ctrl-Z Director: James Kennedy

TRT: 24:00

Country: United Kingdom Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

The Quirky Side Logline: Ed is a hopeless romantic who invents a device allowing him an infinite number of attempts to impress the girl of his dreams. However, with each failed first impression, he must kill himself before he can go back and try again.

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Death$ in a $mall Town Director: Mark Jones

Escape, The TRT: 6:52

Director: Fabian Pinilla

Country: United States (Tennessee)

Country: United States

OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

USA Premiere

The Quirky Side

The After Dark Side

Logline: A mayor has a unique way to revive the fortunes of his small town that had been losing citizens, businesses and tourist prior to his taking office.

Logline: Eddie is a prisoner in a clandestine factory. He tries to escape at all costs in order to avoid being processed and sold to the public as pork meat.

TRT: 11:09

Feeding Time Director: Matt Mercer

Dreamkeeper Director: Whitney Stephenson

TRT: 9:50

Country: United States (Georgia) World Premiere, Family Friendly although deals with the subject of death.

The Life Happens Side Logline: Tom is a Dream Watchman who is content with a routine life of watching and observing.

When seven year old Julie escapes her dream, Tom’s routine structure comes crashing down.

TRT: 13:00

Country: United States (California) Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

The After Dark Side Logline: When a young woman fills in for her friend on a babysitting job, she begins to suspect things are not as they seem. She’s right.

From the Gut Director: Jay Hollinsworth

TRT: 12:28

Country: United States (Texas) Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Empty Bed

The After Dark Side

Director: Brandt Shandera

TRT: 7:04

Country: United States (New York) Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

The After Dark Side Logline: In the dark of night, a mother searches for her son after finding his bed empty.

Logline: From the Gut is a short film that tells the tale of Gerald Lindsay, an outwardly normal guy-nextdoor who possesses the mysterious ability to vomit objects out of thin air.

Goodbye Neenaw Director: Donald Ian Black

TRT: 5:59

Country: United States (California) Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

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The Quirky Side Logline: David and Jennifer are a brother and sister dealing with the recent and sudden loss of their grandmother who raised them from a young age in the absence of their parents. They are traveling deep into the California mountains to scatter Neenaw’s ashes when a mishap occurs.

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He Could’ve Gone Pro Director: McGhee Monteith

TRT: 13:09

Country: United States (Tennessee) Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

The Quirky Side Logline: When Debbie comes home for Christmas, she and her mother Gayle are forced to confront the truth about their family’s past over a tense holiday lunch.

Killer Spacemen From Outer Planet X Director: Peter Campbell, Thomas Campbell

TRT: 16:52

Country: United States (Maine) Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

The After Dark Side Logline: Three brave, intergalactic explorers find themselves in uncharted celestial territory when their ship runs critically low on their much needed fuel source: plutonium.

The Beloved Documentary of America’s Most Dangerous Song.

Now available on DVD and streaming for home and classroom. www.intersectionfilms.net

Move Me Director: Gabe Crate

TRT: 22:22

Country: United States (California) Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

The Life Happens Side Logline: While hiking in a forest, a couple find an inexplicably immobile stranger with an antique plaque chained around his neck that reads “Human Contact Moves Me.”

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On Sunday Director: David Lea

STAY TRT: 6:30

Director: Ben Hyland

TRT: 20:28

Country: United Kingdom

Country: United Kingdom

Regional Premiere, Family Friendly

OXFF Alum, Regional Premiere, Family Friendly

The After Dark Side

The Life Happens Side

Logline: An old man and his dog make their routine walk to the isolated clifftops of deepest Cornwall...but this time they’re not alone.

Logline: Julian is struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife. One day, whilst sitting in his Chesterfield chair looking out of his window, he sees a dog, and upon following Julian is transported through memories from his life that spans all four seasons.

Quantified Self, The Director: Gleb Osatinski

TRT: 15:30

Country: United States (New York) Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Step 9 Director: Leonora Pitts

TRT: 13:33

Country: United States (California) Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

The After Dark Side

The Life Happens Side Logline: When wellmeaning parents turn self-tracking into a family religion, the consequences fall outside the quantifiable.

Logline: Two friends, one in recovery and one decidedly not, set off on a road trip to make amends.

Set Adrift Director: Jennifer Sheridan

TRT: 8:05

Country: United Kingdom Regional Premiere, Family Friendly although deals with death as a subject, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

The Life Happens Side

Director: Melissa Sweazy

TRT: 9:55

Country: United States (Tennessee) OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: When Patch’s beloved owner goes missing, he is forced to work out what is real and what is just a memory.

The After Dark Side Logline: Maddie gets a visit from the Tooth Fairy who may be interested in more than just collecting her lost tooth.

Shy Guys Director: Fredric Lehne

Teeth

TRT: 8:16

Country: United State ( New Jersey) The Quirky Side Logline: Two strangers (2016 Tony winner Reed Birney and newcomer Blake DeLong) bring the laughs as they confront and resolve one of the most insidious scourges afflicting mankind - while standing at public urinals with their willies out.

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Twinsburg Director: Joe Garrity

TRT: 15:48

Country: United States (Ohio) Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

The Quirky Side Logline: Jerry, sentimental about his fading twin identity, reunites with his reluctant brother Paul for a weekend of revelry at the world’s largest congregation of twins.

Witching Hour, The Director: Riley Geis

TRT: 12:29

Country: United States (California)

Hale & Co. Bookkeeping & Tax Services

Regional Premiere, Family Friendly The Quirky Side Replays on Sunday at 1 pm as part of Kid Film Fest, Powerhouse Logline: On Halloween, the spooky girl next door takes a fearful young boy on a haunted night of mischief and adventure.

Shannon Lovejoy Accountant 1109 Van Buren Ave. Oxford, MS 38655 662-832-4414

New Media Juried Competition The New Media Block plays Friday at 11 am at the Powerhouse and 5:30 pm at Malco Commons. All films listed are part of this block unless otherwise indicated.

East Coast Grow Director: Amy Tasillo

TRT: 29:59

Country: United States (Washington, D.C.) Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: In DC’s developing marijuana industry, a group of budding professionals attempt to navigate the landscape of medical cultivation and recreational legalization with well-intentioned enthusiasm, which often results in more trouble than they expect.

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Gunner Jackson Director: Christian Strevy

The Other Kids TRT: 8:52

Director: Chris Brown

TRT: 1:35:00

Country: United States (California)

Country: United States (California)

Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Plays with The Other Kids Friday at 7:45 pm, Malco Commons and Saturday, 6 pm, Powerhouse

Plays with Gunner Jackson Friday at 7:45 pm, Malco Commons and Saturday, 6 pm, Powerhouse

Logline: My name is Jason Gunner Jackson, and I know without a doubt that I am a target of a multi-agency program that intends to surveil, track and document my life.

Logline: A raw, intimate look into the struggles of six small-town teens on the verge of high school graduation, The Other Kids is a groundbreaking hybrid of fiction & non-fiction in which real teenagers collaborated with award-winning director Chris Brown to tell their own gripping, personal stories.

My Mechanical Friend Director: Hollie Seidel, Charles Astuto

TRT: 22:00

Country: United States (New York)

Director: Kaihei TRT: 26:52

Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Country: Japan USA Premiere

Logline: Ophelia is happy on her own, but the people around her don’t believe that a woman can ever be truly content by herself.

Logline: An actor puts out a call for members to form a new theatre group. But his plans get scrambled when someone with no interest in the theatre shows up at his meeting.

Paco Director: Catalina Jordan Alvarez

Welcome to the Theater Company

TRT: 12:10

Country: United States Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: He wants you to bounce on his lap.

All virtual reality films are free to the public and on display February 16-19 at the Powerhouse from 10 am to 5 pm. There may be a queue to view each film, but there are concessions and a full bar at the venue for your wait.

Ashes

Petrol Director: Ant Horasanli

Virtual Reality Juried Competition

Director: Jessica Kantor TRT: 10:00

Country: Canada

TRT: 5:50

Country: United States (California) Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

USA Premiere Logline: Petrol is a highoctane action series that follows five getaway drivers from all walks of life who work for a mysterious “Employer.” In Episode 3 “Crossing Over,” we follow Ali, a refugee from Afghanistan who takes on a dangerous cross-border mission.

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Logline: Playing with movement, space and time, Ashes shares the tragic story of two lovers, told specifically for 360-headset environment.

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Back to the Summer (VR Short) Director: Jianbo Gao

TRT: 4:30

Country: United States (California) World Premiere, Family Friendly Logline: A old man recalls his deceased wife from viewing the old photos and jumps back to that memorable summer.

Haunt Director: Lilian Mehrel

TRT: 7:39

Country: United States (New York) Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: A short virtual reality film about presence, experienced through the eyes of a ghost.

Mon - Fri 10 AM - 7 PM SATURDAY 11 AM - 3 PM

I, Phillip Director: Pierre Zandrowicz

TRT: 14:00

Country: France Family Friendly Logline: In early 2005, David Hanson is developing his first android human. His name is Phil, and it is simply the copy of the famous science fiction author Philip K. Dick.

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Nobel’s Nightmare Director: Chamsy Sarkis

TRT: 5:08

The Rock Presents: “Escape From Calypso Island” - A 360 VR Adventure

Country: Syria

Director: Scott Brown

Regional Premiere, Family Friendly

Country: United States (California)

Logline: One of the world’s oldest cities and for many years the heart of the Syrian economy, Aleppo is now ravaged by war. This immersive footage was shot with the Syrian Civil Defense teams of Aleppo, the unarmed volunteers performing search and rescue, recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Say It With Music Director: Oliver Chen, Lubomir Kobomir Kocka

TRT: 5:15

Country: United States (Georgia)

TRT: 8:15

Family Friendly Logline: Put on your VR headset and take your seat as a passenger on the Calypso Island Historical Tour of Magic and Wonder. Though the island is fabled for its magic, veteran tour guide Dylan explains to fresh-faced Tracy that he doesn’t believe in any “hocus pocus” anymore. Dylan is quickly proven wrong when explorer Duke Fontana (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) encounters our tour truck and enlists our help to fight an ancient evil that has returned to end the world.

World Premiere, Family Friendly

Tomorrow

Logline: Simone and Nathan work at the same restaurant, mostly unaware of each other. That is until Simone uses music as an instrument of change to bring the restaurant and its stuffy owner, Gustavo, out of their usual monotony.

Director: Nicolas Alcala¡

Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Songs of the Vine Director: Maira Clancy, Blake Montgomery

TRT: 6:38

Country: Spain

TRT: 17:56

Country: Peru/United States (California) Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly Logline: Shot over the span of two months in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, Songs of the Vine is a virtual reality documentary focusing on the healing modalities, cosmovision and culture of the Shipibo, an indigenous group well-known for its rich tradition of plant spirit shamanism, including a mastery of the visionary ayahuasca brew.

Logline: The experience allows the viewer to enjoy an immersive story that narrates the evolution of language. Take a journey from the ancient caves to the middle of the jungle where Amazon tribes struggle to understand the concept of “future” due to their lack of words to express it.

Umphrey’s McGee 360 VR “Puppet String” Director: Pete Herzog, Reel FX VR

TRT: 12:30

Country: United States (Texas) Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: Digital studio Reel FX VR produced an experimental virtual-reality experience for Umphrey’s McGee spring tour filmed April 20th, 2016 at the House of Blues in Houston, Texas.

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Special Screenings Check each film listing for the time and location. These films are not in juried competition but are eligible for the audience award.

Beyond The Rocks (1922) Director: Sam Wood

TRT: 80 minutes

Time: Saturday, 3 pm, Lafayette COunty & Oxford Public Library Logline: Beyond the Rocks (1922), directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino. Long considered lost, a nitrate print was discovered in the Netherlands in 2003. Not only a great film, Beyond the Rocks raises important questions about film preservation and restoration.

Born in the Blues Short Documentary Director: Greg Earnest

TRT: 5:00

Country: United States (Mississippi) Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.

Time: Wednesday, 7 pm, Powerhouse; Friday, 11 am, Malco Commons Logline: A short documentary about the hill country blues next generation.

BIG HOUSE BOOKS: PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO READ Director: Susan Liles, Lacy Ellinwood

TRT: 6:13

Country: United States (Mississippi) World Premiere, Magnifying Glass Fellowship Recipient, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.

Time: Wednesday, 7 pm, Powerhouse; Friday, 11 am, Malco Commons Logline: Documentary looks at Big House Books, a non-profit volunteer organization that sends free books by request to prisoners in Mississippi correctional facilities to promote literacy and be a vehicle of change for prison reform in Mississippi.

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Chasing Amy

Flavor Saver, The

Narrative Feature

Documentary Short

Director: Kevin Smith

TRT: 1:43:00

Director: Joe York

Country: United States (New Jersey)

Country: United States (Mississippi)

Time: Saturday, 7:30 pm, Gertrude Ford Performing Arts Center with panel discussion afterward.

Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Logline: Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything’s going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist.

Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she’s gay.

Logline: David Shields is a historian and professor whose research into the history of Southern cuisine led him to the front of an effort to revitalize forgotten and overlooked Lowcountry produce and crops.

Kid Film Festival

Documentary Feature TRT: 59:00

Country: India Family Friendly, Filmmakers and Chefs scheduled to attend.

Time: Friday, 6 pm, Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival Logline: Sit back and enjoy this captivating documentary covering one of the South’s most notable Indian street food concepts as two-time James Beard Award-nominated chef Meherwan Irani and his Chai Pani crew of head chefs take a fascinating culinary adventure through India.

Director: Tony Randel

TRT: 1:35:00

Country: United States (Florida) Rated PG, Family Friendly Time: Sunday 3:15 pm, Powerhouse, Part of the Kid Film Festival Logline: Teenagers Blaz and his sister Velana come from a very different kind of mixed marriage. Their father Todor is a vampire and their mother Valantina is a witch. Longing to be like normal other teenagers, they flee their cold and dreary castle for the warm tropics.

I Am Not Your Negro Documentary Feature Director: Raoul Peck

TRT: 1:35:00

Country: United States/France Rated PG-13 for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language and brief nudity

FireMax

Time: Friday, 7 pm, Malco Commons

Oxford Film Festival Community Film Director: Rory Ledbetter

Time: Friday, 6 pm, Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival

The Hybrids Family

Cutting Chai Director: Chai Pani (CP) restaurant team

TRT: 7:12

TRT: 12 minutes

Country: United States (Mississippi) World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Wednesday, 7 pm, Powerhouse; Friday, 11 am, Malco Commons

Logline: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

LogLine: A firebreathing superhero discovers there’s more going on in Oxford, Mississippi than meets the eye and teams up with an uncanny group of heroes to fight an entente of super villains.

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Ira Wallace: A Seed With A Story Documentary Short Director: Ava Lowrey

TRT: 9:57

Country: United States Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Friday, 6 pm, Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival Logline: Ira Wallace is a seed saver, an educator, and the essential intellectual and physical energy behind Southern Exposure Seed Exchange - one of the country’s best known and most respected sources for heirloom and open-pollinated seeds.

Folk Hero & Funny Guy Narrative Feature, Closing Night Film Director: Jeff Grace

TRT: 1:28:00

Country: United States (Georgia) Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Sunday, 6 pm, Malco Commons Logline: A successful singer-songwriter hatches a plan to help his friend’s struggling comedy career and broken love life by hiring him as his opening act on his solo tour.

Gun Crazy Director: Joseph H. Lewis

TRT: 86:00

Time: Sunday, 3 pm, Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library Logline: Gun Crazy (1950), directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall. With a screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, Gun Crazy is quintessential counter-cultural film noir and an object lesson in Hollywood censorship.

TRT: 15:00

Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Sunday, noon, with Secret Screening, Malco Commons Logline: I Was a Space Refugee is a fun retro sci-fi “B” movie.

The action takes place during a moonlit night in the studio of Oxford artist Glennray Tutor.

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I Was a Space Refugee Director: Deborah Freeland

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Jackson Director: Maisie Crow

Keepin’ It Weird TV TRT: 1:30:00

Director: Cassandra Dixson

TRT: 16:00

Country: United States (Mississippi)

Country: United States (Texas)

Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Family Friendly

Time: 4:45 p.m. Friday, Malco Commons

Time: Sunday, 1 pm, Powerhouse, Part of the Kid Film Fest Rating: For 8+

Logline: What does life look like in a place where the anti-abortion movement has made access to legal abortion nearly impossible?

Logline: Meet our Keepin’ It Weird Youth from Austin, TX with a collection of sketches where they poke fun at the world around them!

Kudzu Zombies Narrative Feature Director: Mark Newton

Joel Blass

World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Documentary Feature Director: Meagan Harkins

TRT: 1:30:00

Country: United States (Mississippi)

TRT: 1:14:18

Country: United States (Mississippi) World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Friday, 5:30 pm, Oxford Conference Center Logline: Joel Blass was a public servant to Mississippi, and he inspired his fellow Mississippians to boldly carve out a new future for their state, despite being vilified by the press and threatened by forces of segregation.

Joel Blass fought for justice, freedom and equal rights for every citizen.

Time: Friday, 8:30 pm and Sunday, 3:15 pm, Malco Commons Logline: After a mysterious chemical transforms the citizens of Charleston into zombies, a mismatched group must fight for survival against the cannibalistic hordes.

Memoir Louisiana Film Prize Special Screening Director: Alexander Jeffrey

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All Film Festival Collective content is available at no-cost to XFINITY subscribers within the region. The program is available on both the original Comcast On Demand platform as well as the new X1 platform. With X1, subscribers can access content using voice commands on their smartphone X1 remote control app.

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TRT: 16:00

Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco Commons Logline: Memories can either fuel our existence or eat away at us like a disease. In the not-too-distant future, Dr. Theodore Maine is on the cusp of losing his job at Janus Labs where he is developing research for Alzheimers treatment. That is, until a mysterious visitor named Obee changes his life forever.

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Midnight Express (1978) Narrative Feature Director: Alan Parker

TRT: 2:01:00

Billy Hayes is scheduled to attend.

Time: Friday, 6 pm, Shelter on Van Buren Logline: Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey Documentary Feature Director: Sally Sussman

TRT: 1:39:00

Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Friday, 2:45 pm, Oxford Conference Center Logline: Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey explores the emotional and political power of film, as seen through the lens of the blockbuster hit Midnight Express, a movie that turned the real Billy Hayes into an international celebrity and made him the enemy of Turkey. Join Hayes on a daring journey back to Turkey as he faces the country still haunted by Midnight Express.

Native Louisiana Film Prize Special Screening Director: Travis Champagne and Stephen Kinigopoulos TRT: 15:00 Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco Commons Logline: While on a ceremonial walkabout, a young boy must defend his tribe against a mysterious force.

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Science: A Film by Horizons Rising 5th Graders

She’s Allergic To Cats

Documentary Short

Director: Michael Reich

Director: Erica Avent

Country: United States (California)

TRT: 9:42

After Dark Narrative Feature TRT: 1:14:00

Country: United States (Mississippi)

Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Saturday, 10 pm, Malco Commons, Paired with Itching, The

Time: Sunday 1 pm, Powerhouse, Part of the Kid Film Fest

Rating: For Mature Audiences

Rating: G Logline: 5th graders with the Horizons program set out to learn about science by filming a documentary. See their interactions with North Mississippi scientists and how much they learned over the summer.

Logline: A lonely dog groomer searches for love but his true passion is making weird video art that nobody understands.

Small Town Gay Gar

Smile Y’all Photo Booth

Documentary Feature Director: Malcolm Ingram

TRT: 1:16:00

Country: United States (Mississippi) Time: Friday 5:30 pm, Malco Commons Panel discussion with director Malcolm Ingram and guests from the film to follow.

Rating: For 17+ Logline: The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.

...where to find the photos!

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

Take a printed photo home but don’t forget to tag yourself on Facebook as well!

Sonic Boom: Eggman The Auteur Produced by Sega of America

TRT: 11:00

Country: United States Family Friendly Time: Sunday, 1 pm, Powerhouse Rating: Ages 7+ Logline: Sonic Boom is the funny bone of the iconic Sonic the Hedgehog universe, which began as a Sega video game 25 years ago. This 52 x 11” TV series follows team Sonic, including the Blue Blur himself, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, and Sticks, as they cleverly battle nefarious genius Dr. Eggman and his hench bots.

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Louisiana Film Prize Special Screening Director: Eva Contis

TRT: 15:00

Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Sunday 12:45 pm, Malco Commons

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Rating: For 17+ Logline: Islamic extremists ambush a bus in Africa. When the Christian and Muslim passengers refuse to separate, the terrorists are faced with a dilemma.

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Strange Weather Narrative Feature, Opening Night Film Director: Katherine Dieckmann

TRT: 1:32:00

Country: United States (Mississippi) Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Thursday, 7:30 pm, Lyric Theatre Rating: For 17+ Logline: A poignant, lyrical drama about a mother (Holly Hunter), who, in an effort to deal with the grief over the death of her son, travels the back roads of the deep south to settle a score.

The Man From Mars Louisiana Film Prize Special Screening Director: Jonnie Stapleton

TRT: 15:00

Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco Commons Rating: For 14+ Logline: A cynical podcast host, hellbent on making fools of small town celebrities, has just met his match A charming woman has her entire community believing she’s the second coming of Jesus Christ.

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We Will Not go Away Documentary Short Director: Louis Bourgeois

TRT: 5:00

Country: United States (Mississippi) Magnifying Glass Fellowship Recipient, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Wednesday, 7 pm, Powerhouse; Friday, 11 am, Malco Commons Logline: This short film documents a father and son as they face the everyday challenges of being homeless in the prosperous college football town of Oxford, Mississippi.

Ya Albi (My Heart) Louisiana Film Prize Special Screening Director: Christine Chen

TRT: 26:00

Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.

Time: Sunday 12:45 pm, Malco Commons Logline: A Syrian refugee adapts to life in an unfamiliar country after her husband’s immigration visa is unexpectedly rejected.

OxFilm Society Makes Dreams Come True A Young Filmmakers Opportunity

By Evan Enders The OxFilm Society strives to help filmmakers throughout Lafayette County achieve their goals. Joining the OxFilm Society provides filmmakers affordable rental equipment and access to top end post production facilities.

Alex Thiel, a recent film grad, was looking to get his career started with the Oxford Film Festival.

“I was a student filmmaker in Oxford who didn’t have the wherewithal to buy my own gear,” says Thiel. “The university provided some equipment for undergrads, but after I’d graduated, OxFilm was the most affordable and convenient way to get my hands on the equipment needed. If you are like me, a broke college student/grad without the means to buy your own equipment, there’s no better option.”

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

“If you are trying to get your feet wet in the world of film and video, there is nothing I’d suggest sooner than getting plugged in with an OxFilm membership,” Thiel says.

To learn more about the OxFilm Society or help support the effort, visit http://oxfordfilmfest.com/oxfilm-society.

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Oxford Film Festival Seven Venues + 5 Days + over 150 films

Become a VIP or just enjoy the free panels. How you fest is your choice!

But below are a few questions to help guide you on your way. Stop by our information booth at the festival to ask more questions!

priority line, but the passholder does not have to purchase tickets for any individual films.

HOW TICKETS WORK FOR OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL

Kid Film Fest ($10) Feb 18-19. Entrance into kid workshops on Saturday and Sunday, movie screenings plus snacks.

VIP Pass ($150) Priority line access, entrance into all films, parties, and green room plus entrance into special ticketed events.

The VIP badge gives full access to all films, the green room, parties, panels and workshops. It is also provides priority line access so you get first chance at seating.

Filmmakers, judges, sponsors, media, staff, board and some volunteers also have VIP access with their badges, but are provided complimentary as part of their perks.

Weekend Pass ($60) Entrance into all films.

Does not include: Strange Weather, Kudzu Zombies, Chasing Amy, Food+ Film, Small Town Gay Bar, I Am Not Your Negro, Louisiana Film Prize, and Folk Hero & Funny Guy. Day Pass ($25) Entrance into all films for one day, except special ticketed events.

The weekend and day passes allow entrance into any regular screening (excludes special ticketed screenings). The badge does not allow for green room or party access nor VIP

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Food+ Film Fest ($30) Feb. 17, 6-8 pm Includes films and full meal.

Single Movie Ticket ($12) Good for one movie entrance and can be transferred if film sells out.

Single tickets apply to an individual film.

The ticket is transferrable to a different film if the film sells out. Tickets are $12 with student ID and senior discounts available.

SPECIAL TICKETED EVENTS ($12) Purchase online in advance • Strange Weather (Feb. 16, 7:30 pm) • Small Town Gay Bar and panel (Feb. 17, 5:30 pm) • I Am Not Your Negro (Feb. 17, 7 pm) • Kudzu Zombies (Feb. 17, 8:30 pm and Feb. 19, 3:30 pm) • Chasing Amy screening reunion and panel (Feb. 18, 7:30 pm) • Best of Louisiana Film Prize (Sunday, 12:45 pm) • Folk Hero & Funny Guy (Sunday, 6 pm) Once purchased, your seat is secured.

Otherwise, try at the box office before the film if tickets remain.

• Community Film Block including FireMax (Feb. 15, 6:30 pm and Feb. 17, 11 am) • Virtual Reality Films (Powerhouse Feb. 16-19) • Doc Shorts Encore (Shelter Feb 17, 3:45 pm) • Midnight Express (Shelter, Feb. 17, 6 pm) • Experimental Block Encore (Shelter, Feb. 18 3:30 pm) • Beyond the Rocks (Library, Feb. 18, 3 pm) • Gun Crazy (Library, Feb. 19, 3 pm)

PANELS/WORKSHOPS: • Acting Workshop, Feb. 17 11 am • Seed & Spark panel, Feb. 17, noon • Female Filmmaker Coffee Hour, Feb. 17, 1:30 pm • Chasing Amy live table read with Theatre Oxford, Feb. 18, 1 pm • Animation panel, Feb. 19, 10 am • LGBTQ panel, Feb. 19, 2:30 pm

LAST MINUTE/RUSH LINE Did we announce a film selling out? There may still be opportunities to snag a seat. This year we are introducing the rush line ticket. Pick up a numbered rush ticket at the box office one hour before the film. Once seating is complete (10 minutes before the film) we will release any available seats to the rush line to either use their badge to access the screen or to purchase a single ticket.

What about passholders?

VIP badges get priority seating but select screenings must be reserved in advance.

Do I have to stand in line?

You don’t have to stand in line if you are a badge holder unless you have a seat preference and/or want to be the first to get into the theater. We recommend ticket holders get in line to secure a seat. We release any empty seats ten minutes before the screening begins.

We do have a lobby for people to wait until 20 minutes before the screening.

Can I pay for a ticket in cash?

Yes, beginning on February 15 we will have a physical box office where you can pay in cash or with a check or credit card.

When should I arrive for a screening?

We recommend arriving at least 20 minutes early to get in either the VIP priority line or regular ticket holder line to secure a seat.

I still have questions, help?

Email us at info@oxfordfilmfest.com or during the festival visit our information table located at the box office.

I bought a pass online. How do I get it?

We ask that you pick up your physical pass or ticket at our box office during the film festival.

A film I want to see is sold out, now what?

New this year is the rush ticket system.

One hour before a sold out screening, visit the box office to ask for a rush ticket. Five minutes before the film, any open seats will be given to rush ticket holders in order. A badge holder?

Go right in. Want to buy a ticket? Don’t have to until you know you have a seat.

Where is this box office?

• February 15-16 10 am to 5 pm Powerhouse (413 South 14th St) • February 17-19 10 am to close Malco Commons (204 Commonwealth Blvd)

Can I buy just one ticket to one screening?

Yes, they are $12 in advance or $17 at the door.

Do I have to buy tickets online?

No, but ticket prices go up on February 15 and buying online in advance saves you money and secures your seat.

What do I do with my pass?

Wear it and get access!

I lost my pass. What do I do?

Stop by our box office and let us know.

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How do I reserve a seat at a film?

Most films are first come-first served except for a few select screenings, for which advance tickets are sold online. We recommend arriving at least 20 minutes before a film to get in line for a seat.

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The. Fine. Print.

The main box office is open Friday-Sunday at the Malco Oxford Commons (206 Commonwealth Blvd.) Other venues include the Oxford Conference Center (102 Ed Perry Blvd.), The Shelter (1221 Van Buren Ave.), The Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts (351 University 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 with a FF notation (family friendly). The Kid’s Festival program is made for ages 8-15.

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

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that the festival promotes the behavior contained therein.

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. VIP badges get priority line access. However, any seats unclaimed 10 minutes before film will be given away. If a film is sold out, we have a rush line system that allows people to wait until five minutes before the film begins to claim any open seats. Rush tickets can be picked up at the box office.

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.

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2017 A-Z LIST

BY GENRE

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LGBTQ COMPETITION • • • • • • • •

NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION

• All the Birds Have Flown South - OXFF Alum Hoka winners with The Pillow • Anti Matter, international premiere • Gold Star, regional premiere • Some Freaks • To Keep the Light, regional premiere

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION • Disturbing the Peace, regional premiere • Girl Unbound • Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World, regional premiere • First Lady of the Revolution • Swim Team, regional premiere ANIMATION COMPETITION • A Little Love Goes a Long Clay • Evocation of a Nightmare, world premiere • Fox and the Whale • Invisible • Itching, The • Panic Attack! regional premiere • Rabbit Blood • Stamped, regional premiere DOCUMENTARY SHORT COMPETITION

• Boatman, The • Carousel, The, regional premiere • I, Whiskey: The Human Spirit, also part of food+ film fest • Little Kurdistan, also part of food+ film fest • Lives Restarted • Perfectly Normal • Pickle • Refuge • Soul City, regional premiere • Through the Wall

EXPERIMENTAL COMPETITION • • • • •

A Stones Throw Away Black River, regional premiere Cup of Stars Deep in the Woods Étude 1a: Release (I), world premiere

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Fall, USA premiere Holy Ghost, world premiere I of the Storm, world premiere Lithics News from the Sun, regional premiere Now Appearing in Bucharest Ode to the Port, regional premiere Periphery, regional premiere SWABS, Ole Miss student The Trader Underbelly Up We R the World/Mold, regional premiere

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A Doll’s Eyes, regional premiere All Are Welcome Here, world premiere Breakfast Chance, regional premiere Dawn, world premiere Friday the 14th, regional premiere Horizon, US premiere (Stephen Elliott, of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, director) How Love Won: The Fight for Marriage Equality, regional premiere My Big Fat Lesbian Bat Mitzvah Swirl The Happys The Yoga Bridge, world premiere Woman on Fire, regional premiere You Deserve Everything, world premiere

MISSISSIPPI FEATURES COMPETITION • The Atoning, world premiere • Don’t Come Around Here • Late Blossom Blues

MISSISSIPPI SHORTS COMPETITION

• Bare Knuckle • Less Hell, More Angel, world premiere • Monsters Anonymous (Jeremy London, of Mallrats, director) • Otha Turner • Prisma, world premiere • Sammy Long: Woodturner • Shabati, world premiere • Telekinetic Tim • Tinker • Two Birds

MISSISSIPPI MUSIC VIDEO COMPETITION • • • • • • •

Broken Paths Catching Hell, The Great Dying Emisora Magic8 Me & My Gal, world premiere She’s Got Such a Lovely Pair, world premiere Wayward Wind

MUSIC DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

• Acoustic Ninja • The Arkansas Wild Man • Shake Em On Down (includes cameos from Bonnie Raitt and more) • Stronger than Bullets • Two Trains Runnin (Common narrates)

NARRATIVE SHORTS COMPETITION • • • • • • • • • •

Arrow of Light Big City, regional premiere Ctrl-Z Death$ in a $mall Town Dreamkeeper, world premiere Empty Bed The Escape, US premiere Feeding Time From the Gut, regional premiere Goodbye Neenaw, regional premiere

• He Could’ve Gone Pro ( winner of Memphis Film Prize) • Killer Spaceman from Outer Planet X, regional premiere • Move Me • On Sunday, regional premiere • The Quantified Self • Set Adrift, regional premiere • Shy Guys • Stay, regional premiere • Step 9, regional premiere • Teeth • Twinsburg, regional premiere • The Witching Hour, world premiere

NEW MEDIA COMPETITION

(ALSO PART OF FEST FORWARD EVENT) • East Coast Grow, regional premiere • Gunner Jackson • My Mechanical Friend • Paco • The Other Kids, regional premiere • Welcome To The Theater Company, US premiere

VIRTUAL REALITY COMPETITION

(ALSO PART OF FEST FORWARD EVENT) • Ashes • Back to the Summer, world premiere • Haunt, regional premiere • I, Phillip • Nobel’s Nightmare, regional premiere • Petrol, US premiere • Say it with Music, world premiere • Songs of the Vine • The Rock Presents: “Escape From Calypso Island”, A 360 VR Adventure • Tomorrow, regional premiere • Umphrey’s McGee 360 VR “Puppet String”

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

• Born in the Blues, world premiere • Big House Books: Protecting the Right to Read, world premiere • Chasing Amy • Cutting Chai, part of food+ film fest • Firemax, world premiere • The Flavor Saver, part of food+ film fest • Folk Hero & Funny Guy, closing night film • The Hybrids Family, kid film fest • I Am A Space Refugee • I Am Not Your Negro • Ira Wallace: A Seed with A Story, part of food+ film fest • Jackson • Joel Blass, world premiere • Keepin It Weird TV, part of kid film fest • Kudzu Zombies, world premiere • The Man From Mars • Memoir • Midnight Express, anniversary screening with Billy Mize in attendance • Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey, regional premiere • Native • Science: A Film by Horizons Rising 5th Graders, local kid-made film, plays in kid film fest, world premiere • She’s Allergic to Cats, late night feature, regional premiere • Small Town Gay Bar • Sonic Boom: Eggman the Auteur, part of kid film fest • The Stand • Strange Weather, opening night film • We Will Not Go Away, world premiere • William Eggleston in the Real World

February 15-19, 2017