Film Lineup
CrewUp Youth Mentorship Screening
In Person & Virtual Screening @ 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm (CST)
World Premiere of nine short films produced by our 2022 CrewUp Youth Filmmaker Mentorship teams! CrewUp is presented in partnership with the Grizzlies Foundation and CLOUD901. Each team is composed of three students supported by a filmmaker mentor + a $500 filming budget.
Vote for the $300 audience award winner!
The grand jury prize winner will also receive a $500 cash prize.
Awards will be announced on Saturday, Aug. 27th starting at 7:30PM CST
*All films screened are created by students between grades 7-12.
However, some films do contain adult themes, violence, and language.*
Amorphous
Mentor: Kimel Fryer
Dir. Anaya Nicole Murray, Shaun Murray, Jarred Murray
Behind the Screens
Mentor: Celeste Dixon
Dir. Dana Murphy, Saniya Coleman, Ethan Lovelock
Community Theater
Mentor: Sean Winfrey
Dir. Angela Yates, Gabriella (Mikey) Graves, Phoebe Jenkins
Death by Midnight
Mentor: Michael Daniels
Dir. Samuel McElroy, Ives Dobbins, Alyssa Gray
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Mentor: Mars McKay
Dir. Alacia Williams, Zoe Zerwig Ford, Nyla Johnson
Memoria
Mentor: Rod Kirby
Dir. Kenedi Williams, Amir-Abdur Rasheed, Aneesa Strickland
Escape Your Reality
Mentor: Courtney LeFlore
Dir. Dorian Christopher Rogers, Abigahil Loredo
The Ballot
Mentor: Josh Beckemeyer
Dir. Ryleigh Deeley, Jalyiah Driskill, K. Mason Myles
The Creator
Mentor: Mitchell Carter
Dir. Luca de Jong, Autumn Colley, Pip Borden
Memphis Youth Competition Screening
In Person & Virtual Screening @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm (CST)
11 short films created by Memphis-area Youth in Grades 7 - 12 are presented for competition.
Vote for the $300 audience award winner!
The grand jury prize winner will also receive a $500 cash prize + a handmade trophy.
Awards will be announced on Saturday, Aug. 27th starting at 7:30PM CST.
*All films screened are created by students between grades 7-12. However, some films do contain adult themes and language.*
Amnesia Was Her Name
Angela Yates
Memphis Virtual School / 12th Grade
Bullied
Kelvin Finnie Jr
Fayette-Ware Comprehensive High School / 12th Grade
Carbon Dating
Ivy Marie Carls, Baylus Michael Schaffler
St. Mary’s Episcopal School / 9th Grade
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CLOUD901 Film Camp
Variety of Schools and Grades
Honorary
Londyn Grisby
Imprints
Vivie Marie Myrick
The Delta School / 12th Grade
Jarvis Greer: A Memphis Legend
Sergio Garcia
East High School / 12th Grade
Little Wise Guys
Georgia Carls
St. Mary's Episcopal School / 12th Grade
The Cursed Phone
Klyne Bennett Underwood
Lausanne Collegiate School / 7th Grade
Mississippi Kitten
Ali Vallarian
Homeschool / 12th Grade
Wattstax Legacy
Gabriell Banks, Astro Hurt
Stax Music Academy / 12th Grade
National Youth Screening
In Person & Virtual Screening @ 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm (CST)
Enjoy a lineup of 11 of our favorite short films by student filmmakers from across the world!
*All films screened are created by students between grades 7-12. However, some films do contain adult themes and language.*
A Hymn to Love
Dir. Eli Berliner
Are We American?
Dir. Ria Khehar, Alexis Applebaum, Yezy Suh, Ria Khehar
(Girl) Cruelty
Dir. Kaiya Jordan
Dancing with You
Dir. Yezy Suh
Game Plan
Dir. Sophia Winters
Haunted for Life
Dir. Hunter Paul Nickless
Hunter
Dir. Michelle J Tang
Slam Song
Dir. Yezy Suh
The Teardrop
Dir. Yizhou Liao
The Retrieval
Dir. Tyler Herren
Tomato Records
Dir. Grant Lee Bomar
Jury
Calvin Walker
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Calvin Walker is an award-winning writer/producer hailing from Richmond, Virginia and living in Los Angeles. Calvin’s short film, Virginality, recently took home the win for Outstanding Comedic Digital Short at the Micheaux Film Festival. As a lover of strong character and world creation, Calvin can attribute his passion for telling the stories of marginalized folks to watching some of his favorite series: Watchmen, Pose, and Women of the Movement. When he’s not watching his favorite shows or movies, Calvin likes spending time with those closest to him - friends and family from whom he says he draws most of his creative inspiration.
Shannon Vossler
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One part story architect, one part language alchemist, Shannon Vossler is an Emmy-winning, flannel-wearing, coffee-guzzling kind of gal who can produce the heck outta some video, television and film.
The first decade of her career was spent dreaming up new series concepts for major cable networks, bopping back and forth between Boston, New York, and DC to develop millions of dollars worth of content. Her stint with This Old House Productions/Time Inc and the non-profit Homes For Our Troops earned her a National Daytime Emmy Award in 2015 for Outstanding Lifestyle Program.
She’s interviewed scientists and CEOs. Princesses and preschoolers. Cancer patients and circus performers. And she immersed herself within subcultures to find unexpected human narratives, from the woods of northern Maine to the bowels of Wrigley Field.
Though her work has won Emmys, Tellys, MarComs, and Webby noms, she feels her greatest achievement has been capturing emotional and cherish-able moments on film, helping to create immortal legacies for those in front of her lens.
Sarah Gough-Piazza
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Sarah Gough-Piazza began her work in film as an intern for Second Line Studios in New Orleans, LA, She then graduated with her Master’s in Cinema Studies from the Savannah College of Art and Design, focusing her research on gendered stereotypes relating to women in Modern Arthouse Horror cinema. While at SCAD, she became a Programming Intern with the Nashville Film Festival. Since graduation, she has moved to Memphis and continues her work as a screener for the Nashville Film Festival as well as becoming a Submissions Coordinator at the IndieMemphis Film Festival.
