Memphis is wild at heart. He lives on the edge, pursuing his dreams with grit. But as a young man with cerebral palsy, living without government support, Memphis feels stuck. Saddled with their own baggage, Memphis’ parents waver between supporting his desire for independence and pushing him towards a more pragmatic reality. Seneca, his best friend, struggles to reconcile her own big ambitions with her small town life – and her relationship with Memphis. Shot over five years, debut director David Zucker’s Your Friend, Memphis is an intimate portrait of Memphis’ dogged determination: to bridge the distance between the world’s expectations and his own aspirations, no matter what.
 
 #yourfriendmemphis #documentary #nashvillefilmfest #podcasts #interview #cerebralpalsy #austintexas #filmmaker #storicmedia  #filmmaking 
 
Showing: Tue, Oct 4th, 6:00 PM @ Belcourt Theater

Runtime: 93 minutes

Director: David Zucker
Producer: Ben Edelman, Luke Terrell
Executive Producer: Susan Bedusa, Douglas Tirola, Hallee Adelman, Ivy Herman, Ben Schwartz, Matt Burke
Cast: Memphis DiAngelis, Edoardo DiAngelis, Christine Blacklock, Seneca Mick
Cinematographer: David Zucker
Editor: David Zucker, Jody McVeigh-Schultz, Darrin Navarro, ACE
Composer: Saul Simon MacWilliams, Billy Libby
Sound Design: Jacob Misrach-Bloomfield, MPSE, Greg Francis

This video is brought to you by Storic Media, and is part of the NashFilm Podcast Series. The “NashFilm Podcast Series” is a series of podcasts featuring filmmakers featured at the 2022 Nashville Film Festival. This series of interviews will feature all nine films in the festival in the documentary features category: Butterfly in the Sky, Carol & Johnny, Your Friend Memphis, Relative, Outta the Muck, Calendar Girls, Still Working 9 to 5, My Name is Andrea and In the Bones. The podcast series will also feature select filmmakers from the narrative features and music documentaries categories as well as an interview with a primary sponsor of this year’s festival: PickleJar.
 
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This episode features Maria Loohufvud and Love Martinsen, the creators of Calendar girls, being interviewed by Alfred Hopton of Storic Media for their 2022 nominated Nashville film festival documentary feature.
 
About the film: Florida's most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of "the little old lady," and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.
 
#documentary #storicmedia  #calendargirls  #nashvillefilmfest #podcasts #interview #filmmaking #dance 
 
Showing: Sun, Oct 2nd, 4:00 PM @ Tennessee Performing Arts Center - Johnson Theater
 
Runtime: 84 minutes
 
Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Executive Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, Production Design, Composer, Sound Design, Music: Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen
 
Cast: Kathryn Hecht
Produced by pink dolphin 
 
This video is brought to you by Storic Media, and is part of the NashFilm Podcast Series. The “NashFilm Podcast Series” is a series of podcasts featuring filmmakers featured at the 2022 Nashville Film Festival. This series of interviews will feature all nine films in the festival in the documentary features category: Butterfly in the Sky, Carol & Johnny, Your Friend Memphis, Relative, Outta the Muck, Calendar Girls, Still Working 9 to 5, My Name is Andrea and In the Bones. The podcast series will also feature select filmmakers from the narrative features and music documentaries categories as well as an interview with a primary sponsor of this year’s festival: PickleJar.
 
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In the midst of deep ideological divisions in our country, it is easy to forget how intrinsically connected we all are. Connections shaped by systemic structures, often patriarchal and racist in nature, that were developed hundreds of years ago. IN THE BONES takes the viewer to Mississippi, the state where women have the fewest rights and protections, and draws connections between regional policies, particularly around equal pay and abortion, that have the potential to affect women and children across the nation. These connections are unearthed through collaging together intimate moments in the unfolding lives of a cast of characters in three distinct regions of the state; The Gulf Coast, the rural Delta and the State Capitol.

#inthebones #podcast #interview #womenempowerment #documentary #storicmedia  #nashvillefilmfest #filmmaking  

Showing: Sun, Oct 2nd, 1:00 PM @ Tennessee Performing Arts Center - Johnson Theater
Runtime:93 minutes

Director: Kelly Duane de la Vega, Zandashé Brown, Jessica Anthony
Producer:Jessica Anthony, Selina Lewis Davidson, Kelly Duane de la Vega
Executive Producer:Anne Devereux Mills, Maureen Pelton, Myrna Coley-Lee, Cherry Graziosi
Cinematographer: Clare Major, Mario Furloni
Editor:Lila Place
Composer: Tony Morales
Sound Design:Mike Morasky
Music:Mike Morasky

This video is brought to you by Storic Media, and is part of the NashFilm Podcast Series. The “NashFilm Podcast Series” is a series of podcasts featuring filmmakers featured at the 2022 Nashville Film Festival. This series of interviews will feature all nine films in the festival in the documentary features category: Butterfly in the Sky, Carol & Johnny, Your Friend Memphis, Relative, Outta the Muck, Calendar Girls, Still Working 9 to 5, My Name is Andrea and In the Bones. The podcast series will also feature select filmmakers from the narrative features and music documentaries categories as well as an interview with a primary sponsor of this year’s festival: PickleJar.
 
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Maggie (Dianna Agron) tracks down her estranged and reclusive father Lloyd (Thomas Haden Church); together they attempt to make first contact.

#acidman  #podcasts #interview #filmmaking  #storicmedia  #nashvillefilmfest 

Showing: Sat, Oct 1st, 5:00 PM @ Tennessee Performing Arts Center - Johnson Theater
Runtime: 87 minutes

Director:Alexandre Lehmann
Screenwriter:Alex Lehmann, Chris Dowling
Producer:Liz Cardenas, Christian Agypt
Executive Producer:  Matt Bradley, Ron Bradley, Laurent Fumeron, Daniel Goroshko, Rodolphe Sanze, Sharunya Varriale, Alan Pao, Kim DeLonghi, Kyle Stroud, Keanu Mayo, Thomas Haden Church
Cast: Thomas Haden Church, Dianna Agron, Sameerah Luqmaan-Harrisah Luq
Cinematographer: John Matysiak
Editor:  Courtney Ware
Production Design: Nate Pacyna
Composer: Christopher French
Sound Design: Zach Goheen
Music: Andrea von Foerster

This video is brought to you by Storic Media, and is part of the NashFilm Podcast Series. The “NashFilm Podcast Series” is a series of podcasts featuring filmmakers featured at the 2022 Nashville Film Festival. This series of interviews will feature all nine films in the festival in the documentary features category: Butterfly in the Sky, Carol & Johnny, Your Friend Memphis, Relative, Outta the Muck, Calendar Girls, Still Working 9 to 5, My Name is Andrea and In the Bones. The podcast series will also feature select filmmakers from the narrative features and music documentaries categories as well as an interview with a primary sponsor of this year’s festival: PickleJar.
 
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Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. As we take a journey back home, with filmmaker Ira McKinley, to the land of sugarcane, he reconnects with his niece Bridget and nephew Alvin and explores their shared family history that spans seven generations. Told through stories that transcend space and time, Outta The Muck presents an intimate portrait of a community that resists despair with love, remaining fiercely self-determined, while forging its own unique narrative of Black achievement.

#OuttatheMuck #podcast #filmmaking #documentary #storicmedia  #nashvillefilmfest #podcasts #interview 

Showing:  Sat, Oct 1st, 11:00 AM @ Maybelle Room - Virgin Hotels Nashville
Runtime: 80 minutes

Director: Ira McKinley, Bhawin Suchak
Screenwriter: Ira Mckinley
Producer:Bhawin Suchak, Tracy Rector, Darian Henry, Ira Mckinley
Executive Producer: Sam Pollard
Cast:Bridget Dean, Alvin Dean
Cinematographer:Bhawin Suchak
Editor:Bhawin Suchak
Composer:Jim Crew, Amir Mohamed
Sound Design:Willie Elias
Music:Aurelia Belfield

This video is brought to you by Storic Media, and is part of the NashFilm Podcast Series. The “NashFilm Podcast Series” is a series of podcasts featuring filmmakers featured at the 2022 Nashville Film Festival. This series of interviews will feature all nine films in the festival in the documentary features category: Butterfly in the Sky, Carol & Johnny, Your Friend Memphis, Relative, Outta the Muck, Calendar Girls, Still Working 9 to 5, My Name is Andrea and In the Bones. The podcast series will also feature select filmmakers from the narrative features and music documentaries categories as well as an interview with a primary sponsor of this year’s festival: PickleJar.
 
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In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Johnny and Carol Williams robbed 56 banks together across the American west. At the time, it was the longest consecutive string of unsolved bank robberies in FBI history. When they were finally caught in 1994, Carol got 20 years and Johnny got life. They remained married even after Carol was released and Johnny was still in prison. But in 2021, Johnny got out. Johnny lives in a halfway house in Seattle. Carol cares for a dying aunt in Dallas. She left Texas once before— forty-one years ago, for Johnny.Now she must decide whether she will leave again. But as they remember their shared past, their memories diverge. Carol resolves to create a new future independent of the husband she once thought she knew. This is a story about how some people change and some people don’t. A story about love and, at times, the absence of it.

#carolandjohnny #interview #filmmaking #fbi  #storicmedia   #nashvillefilmfest #podcasts 

 Showing: Friday Sep 30th, 3:30 PM @ Tennessee Performing Arts Center - Johnson Theater
Runtime: 90 minutes
 Director: Colin Barnicle
Producer: Barnicle Brothers with Words and Pictures
Executive Producer: Nick Barnicle, Colin Barnicle, Connor Schell, Libby Geist, Aaron Cohen
Cast: Johnny Williams, Carolyn Williams, Don Glasser
Cinematographer: Colin Barnicle
Editor: Colin Barnicle
Composer: Graham Reynolds
Sound Design: Justin Joseph Hall
Music: Allison Wood
 
This video is brought to you by Storic Media, and is part of the NashFilm Podcast Series. The “NashFilm Podcast Series” is a series of podcasts featuring filmmakers featured at the 2022 Nashville Film Festival. This series of interviews will feature all nine films in the festival in the documentary features category: Butterfly in the Sky, Carol & Johnny, Your Friend Memphis, Relative, Outta the Muck, Calendar Girls, Still Working 9 to 5, My Name is Andrea and In the Bones. The podcast series will also feature select filmmakers from the narrative features and music documentaries categories as well as an interview with a primary sponsor of this year’s festival: PickleJar.
 
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Butterfly In The Sky tells the story of the beloved PBS children’s series "Reading Rainbow," its iconic host LeVar Burton, and the challenges its creators faced in cultivating a love of reading through television. Two seconds into the bubbling synth sounds of its theme song will have a child of the 1980s or ‘90s exclaiming “Reading Rainbow!” Such is the beloved nature of the classic children’s literary television show that introduced millions of kids to the wonder of books. Not only did the series insist on having kids speak to kids about their favorite stories,Reading Rainbow introduced the world to one of the most adored television hosts of all time, LeVar Burton. Thanks to his direct, non-patronizing and, most importantly, kind delivery, Burton became a conduit to learning for children of every background - delving behind the pages to the people, places, and things each new story explored.

#documentary #storicmedia  #butterflyinthesky #nashvillefilmfest #podcasts #interview #filmmaking #levarburton #pbs #nashfilm 

Showing: Friday, Sep 30th, 6:30 PM @ Tennessee Performing Arts Center - Johnson Theater
Runtime: 87 minutes

Director: Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb
Producer: Bryan Storkel
Executive Producer: Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Leonardis, Bryn Mooser, Justin Lacob, Kathryn Everett, Andy Hsieh, Tony Hsieh, Raymond Esposito, John B Pounders, Dava Whisenant
Cast: LeVar Burton
Cinematographer: Tony Hardmon, Brett Whitcomb
Editor: Bradford Thomason
Animator: Ali Clark Creative
Composer: The Octopus Project
Sound Design: Lawrence Everson

This video is brought to you by Storic Media, and is part of the NashFilm Podcast Series. The “NashFilm Podcast Series” is a series of podcasts featuring filmmakers featured at the 2022 Nashville Film Festival. This series of interviews will feature all nine films in the festival in the documentary features category: Butterfly in the Sky, Carol & Johnny, Your Friend Memphis, Relative, Outta the Muck, Calendar Girls, Still Working 9 to 5, My Name is Andrea and In the Bones. The podcast series will also feature select filmmakers from the narrative features and music documentaries categories as well as an interview with a primary sponsor of this year’s festival: PickleJar.
 
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The “NashFilm Podcast Series” is a series of podcasts featuring filmmakers featured at the 2023 Nashville Film Festival. This series of interviews will feature films in the festival in the documentary features category: Butterfly in the Sky, Carol & Johnny, Your Friend Memphis, Relative, Outta the Muck, Calendar Girls, Still Working 9 to 5, My Name is Andrea and In the Bones.

#interview #filmmaking #genderinequality #storicmedia #nashvillefilmfest #podcasts #dollyparton #janefonda

Showing: Sun, Oct 2nd, 6:00 PM @ The Franklin Theatre

Runtime:95 minutes

Part of "Speaking Out, Stepping Up: 3 Films of Empowered Women" Director:Camille Hardman, Gary Lane

Producer:Gary Lane, Camille Hardman

Executive Producer:Larry Lane, Steve Summers, Shane Mcanally

Cast: Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dabney Coleman, Rita Moreno, Allison Janney Cinematographer: Brian Tweedt

Editor:Elisa Bonora, Oreet Rees

Production Design:Jon Berry

Composer:Jessica Weiss

Music: Shane Mcanally

This video is brought to you by Storic Media, and is part of the NashFilm Podcast Series. The “NashFilm Podcast Series” is a series of podcasts featuring filmmakers featured at the 2022 Nashville Film Festival. This series of interviews will feature all nine films in the festival in the documentary features category: Butterfly in the Sky, Carol & Johnny, Your Friend Memphis, Relative, Outta the Muck, Calendar Girls, Still Working 9 to 5, My Name is Andrea and In the Bones. The podcast series will also feature select filmmakers from the narrative features and music documentaries categories as well as an interview with a primary sponsor of this year’s festival: PickleJar.

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