Memphis

  • Movie News

Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2022

Before we begin our latest list of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker: Some obvious background.…

2 years ago
  • Festivals

Fest Beat: Locals and Visitors Celebrate with Southern Punk Bands and Sangria-Filled Soirées at Oxford Film Festival

In the far northwest corner of Mississippi lies the city of Oxford. Author and Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner hung…

5 years ago
  • Annual Lists

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Big Cities

"The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe Carnahan reportedly said during…

5 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Wrap: Indie Memphis 2017 Celebrates 20 Years of Flavorful Cinema

From the moment you arrive at the airport in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley follows you around as an omnipresent figure.…

6 years ago
  • Annual Lists

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Big Cities

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be…

6 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Shooting for Salvation: The Director of Free in Deed Proves the Meaning of "Errors Done Right" in This Commentary

I spent 10 years planning, writing, researching and visualizing Free in Deed. But the final film that I wrote, directed,…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Dark Night of the American Soul: Tim Sutton’s Latest Feature is Beautiful, Tense and Provocative

Fiction will always lose the battle against reality when it comes to mankind’s most inhumane and baffling actions. Nothing one…

7 years ago
  • Inside MM - Best Of
  • Winter 2017

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2017

As an independent moviemaker, your life tends to be a mobile one. You’re forever in search of the perfect landscapes,…

7 years ago
  • Best Of

Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2016: Top 10 Big Cities

Think global but shoot local. Here’s where you'll love doing that. Used to be if you wanted to work in the…

8 years ago
  • Best Of

Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top 10 Big Cities

All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker…

9 years ago
  • Under the Influence

Under the Influence: Tim Sutton on Memphis and Ezra Jack Keats

A new series on MovieMaker.com, Under the Influence charts the often-mysterious ways that art begets art, calling upon moviemakers to…

10 years ago
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014, Big Cities: #9. Memphis

It's MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting down through our…

10 years ago