Sunday, October 24th // 3-4 LIVE

Conversation with Celeste Bell and Paul Sng
(directors of Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché)
Moderated by A.S. Hamrah

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
The life and work of X-Ray Spex singer-songwriter and punk icon Poly Styrene is explored by her daughter in this dynamic yet delicate personal film. There are also explorations of Styrene’s identity as a half-Somali woman in the largely white punk scene.

Moderator: A. S. Hamrah is the film critic for The Baffler magazine, and the author of The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018 (n+1 Books), which New York magazine called one of the Ten Best Books of 2018.

CELESTE BELL

postponed — Due to unforeseen circumstances, our IndieTalks panel with Wendell B Harris is postponed indefinitely. We'll send an update if/when we're able to reschedule!

Conversation with Wendell B. Harris (director of Chameleon Street)
Moderated by Brandon Harris

Chameleon Street:
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s debut feature endures as a brilliant satirical examination of the place of race and class in the performance of American social life. Harris himself stars as William Douglas Street Jr., a real-life con man from Detroit who, disillusioned with working for his father, sets about reinventing himself—and then again, and then again—successfully impersonating a vast succession of journalists, lawyers, athletes, and even surgeons in the process.

Moderator: Brandon Harris is an Indie Memphis alum, author, and motion picture executive.

Monday, OCTOBER 25TH // 6-7

Labor Issues in Production

Film and labor professionals discuss current labor issues in cinema production, in part as related to the recent impending IATSE strikes.