Feature-Length Film, London Calling, In Pre-Production in Morehead, Kentucky

Film title: London Calling
Director: Scott Wiper
Producers: Mike Downey, Tarquin Pack and Karri O'Reilly


Location: Morehead, Kentucky


http://www.themoreheadnews.com/kentucky/extras-wanted-for-feature-film-production-in-morehead/article_f44c7f88-4ca3-11e8-97c8-476bbc0b0c93.html

There are film festivals for filmmakers and film lovers across the south. Here is a current schedule of upcoming festivals for 2018. What are your favorites? Are we missing any? Please let us know.

2018 Southern Film Festival Schedule

Name that Southern Movie

What movie is this quote from?

What is Your Favorite Southern Gothic Movie?

Orlando Film Festival - October 19-26, 2017

Named one of the top "25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World" by Moviemaker magazine, the Orlando Film Festival will be held from October 19-26, 2017 at the Cobb Plaza Cinema Cafe in Orlando, Florida.

For more information and purchase tickets, go to: Orlando Film Festival.

Top American Film Schools in the South

Once again, five southern film schools made The Hollywood Reporter's annual list of Top 25 American Film Schools.

11. University of Texas, Austin
Austin, Texas 

14. University of North Carolina School of the Arts 
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

16. Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota, Florida

17. Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia

20. Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

From The Hollywood Reporter,  The Top 25 American Film Schools 2017 (August 16, 2017).

Best American Southern Films

The Southern films listed in the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films of All Time (10th Anniversary Edition) are:

Gone With the Wind (1939)
The General (1927)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Nashville (1975)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Forrest Gump (1994)
All the President's Men (1976)
Easy Rider (1969)
The Last Picture Show (1971)

What are your favorites? Have you seen them all?

"Fried Green Tomatoes" 25 Years Later

For many people, "Fried Green Tomatoes", based on Fannie Flagg's novel of the same name is the definitive southern movie.

Garden & Gun magazine looks back in Celebrating 25 Years of 'Fried Green Tomatoes'.



http://gardenandgun.com/article/celebrating-25-years-fried-green-tomatoes

Deliverance: An Oral History in the August/September 2015 Issue of Garden & Gun

If you love southern literature and southern film, then you know that southerner's love to spin a good yarn. In the August/September 2015 issue of Garden & Gun magazine, Delivering 'Deliverance' by John Meroney, is a look back at the making of the film "Deliverance" (1972). An adaptation of James Dickey's novel, this oral history shows that making the film "Deliverance" was almost as much a southern adventure as shooting the rapids if more than a little bit more fun, with all of the colorful characters that you would expect in a southern classic.

http://gardenandgun.com/article/delivering-deliverance

2014 Sundance Film Festival - Southern Connections

Some films with southern connections screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.


The 2014 Sundance Film Festival
January 16-26, 2014
Park City, Utah

'Freedom Summer' (2013)

Directed by Stanley Nelson, 'Freedom Summer' is a documentary about the summer of 1964 when a thousand volunteers descended on Mississippi to encourage voter registration and and combat segregation.

More about 'Freedom Summer' on the Sundance website.

Cast and Credits

Director: Stanley Nelson
Screenwriter: Stanley Nelson
Executive Producer: Mark Samels
Producers: Stanley Nelson, Cyndee Readdean
Editor: Aljernon Tunsil
Line Producer: Stacey Holman
Archival Researcher: Christine Fall
Assistant Editor: Natasha Mottola

'Hellion' (2014)

A feature written and directed by Kat Candler based on her short film 'Hellion' (2012) and set in southeastern Texas.

For more about 'Hellion' on the Sundance website.

Cast and Credits

Director: Kat Candler
Screenwriter: Kat Candler
Producers: Kelly Williams, Jonathan Duffy
Executive Producers: Janice Beard, Tanner Beard, Jeff Nichols, Sarah Green, Suzanne Weinert
Cinematographer: Brett Pawlak
Editor: Alan Canant
Production Designer: Deneice O'Connor
Composer: Curtis Heath
Principal Cast: Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis, Josh Wiggins, Deke Garner, Jonny Mars, Walt Roberts

'Cold in July' (2014)

Directed by Jim Mickel this feature is set in Texas.

More about 'Cold in July' on the Sundance website.

Cast and Credits

Director: Jim Mickle
Screenwriters: Jim Mickle, Nick Damici
Producers: Linda Moran, René Bastian, Marie Savare de Laitre, Adam Folk
Executive Producers: Jean-Baptiste Babin, Emilie Georges, Manuel Chiche, David Atlan-Jackson, Joël Thibout
Cinematographer: Ryan Samul
Editors: John Paul Horstmann, Jim Mickle
Composer: Jeff Grace
Production Designer: Russell Barnes
Principal Cast: Michael C. Hall, Don Johnson, Sam Shepard, Vinessa Shaw, Nick Damici, Wyatt Russell

'Gone With the Wind' Actress Alicia Rhett Dies at Age 98

Alicia Rhett, the actress whose one and only film role was that of India Wilkes in 'Gone With the Wind' (MGM-193), died on January 4, 2014 at age 98. She was born February 1, 1915 in Savannah, Georgia and later moved to Charleston, South Carolina.

Alicia Rhett was discovered by publicist Kay Brown during the much publicized casting tour of the South to find undiscovered talent for the movie.



Alicia Rhett - obituary
The Telegraph
January 7, 2014

'Red River Moon' filmed on location in Kentucky's Red River Gorge

'Red River Moon', a film by Bruce Barnett, premiered at Lexington's Kentucky Theatre on June 20, 2013. It was filmed on location at Kentucky's Red River Gorge.

'Red River Moon' official website http://www.redrivermoon.org

Red River Moon: Latest Kentucky-made movie to premiere at Kentucky Theatre
BY KAKIE URCH, June11, 2013, ACE

Appalshop -- Appalachian Arts and Education Center

Appalshop (appalshop.org) is a non-profit multi-disciplinary arts and education center located in Whitesburg, Kentucky in the heart of Appalachia. Appalshop produces original films and video as well as theater, music and spoken-word recordings, radio, photography, multimedia, and books.

Begun in 1969 as an economic development project of the War on Poverty to teach young people in Appalachia media skills so that they could find employment outside of Appalachia. The focus soon changed. Instead of leaving the region, students used those skills to stay in the region and to begin making films to document their own communities from their own perspective.

Now Appalshop is a nationally recognized media center. Projects range "from documenting traditional arts to exploring history to dealing with the social issues that affect the region today. The underlying philosophy has always been that Appalachian people must tell their own stories and solve their own problems."

As stated on their website, "Appalshop is dedicated to the proposition that the world is immeasurably enriched when local cultures garner the resources, including new technologies, to tell their own stories and to listen to the unique stories of others. The creative acts of listening and telling are Appalshop's core competency."


Some significant Appalshop projects:

Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
Buffalo Creek Revisited (1984)

Both films, directed by Mimi Pickering. Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man was added to the National Film Registry in 2005.


You can view films and videos online at the Appalshop Channel or purchase DVDs through the Appalshop General Store.

'50 to 1' to premiere March 24, 2014

The movie. '50 to 1', about the longshot 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird is set to premiere March 24, 2014 in New Mexico.


Mine That Bird movie premieres in March; "big stuff" planned for local debut
by Jonathan Lintner
Courier-Journal
November 26, 2013

Behind the Scenes of '12 Years a Slave'

Director Steve McQueen talks about filming '12 Years a Slave'.

Horrendous Acts in a Beautiful Way: Behind the Scenes of '12 Years a Slave'
by Bilge Ebiri
November 13, 2013
Vulture

'12 Years a Slave' Shot On Location in and around New Orleans, Louisiana

Filming locations for '12 Years a Slave' included:

St. Joseph Plantation  and Felicity Plantation in Vachery, Louisiana
Audubon Park and The French Quarter in New Orleans


For more information about New Orleans and '12 Years a Slave':

'12 Years a Slave': Five Cool Things to Know about the New Orleans-shot Historical Epic
by Mike Scott
NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune

29th Annual Independent Spirit Awards

"12 Years a Slave" was nominated for seven categories for the 29th Annual Independent Spirit Awards (including Best Feature).

'12 Years a Slave' Leads 2014 Spirit Award Nominations from Indiwire
by Peter Gnet
November 26, 2013

Atlanta History Center's Swan House Capitol Tours (November 22, 2013 - January 6, 2014)

Swan House Capitol Tours 
Friday, November 22, 2013 – Monday, January 6, 2014 
Monday – Saturday from 1:00 – 5:00 PM 

Fans of The Hunger Games can visit one of the most-recognizable Atlanta locations used in the movie. One of the Georgia filming locations for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the Swan House is offering the Capitol Tour from November 22, 2013 through January 6, 2014.

For more information or tickets, visit the Atlanta History Center's webpage at http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/cms/Swan+House/116.html

On Location -- Atlanta's Swan House in 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'

Atlanta's historic Swan House is featured prominently as one of the locations used in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

From The Buzz with Jennifer Brett
Atlanta's Swan House is Fetching in "Catching Fire".

Serena US Release Date Sometime in 2014?

The U.S. release date for the movie based on Ron Rash's novel "Serena" seems to have been pushed to sometime in 2014. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper and directed by Susanne Bier, Serena is the story of a remarkable woman, who along with her husband, seek to build an empire from the abundant timber in 1930s North Carolina.