Today, Indie Memphis released a portion of the lineup for its 13th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival, which will screen films over four days at three Midtown locations starting Thursday, October 21st.
In addition to announcing the full competition slate for non-local docs and features, Indie Memphis announced what are essentially the tentpole screenings for the festival’s first three nights.
- Louis Gossett Jr. (right) stars in The Grace Card, the made-in-Memphis feature that will open this year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival.
The opening night film at this year’s festival will the premiere of The Grace Card, a religious-themed feature that was made locally and is set for a national release early next year. The Grace Card will screen at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 21st at Playhouse on the Square, and will be followed by the local premiere of Open Five, a collaboration between local filmmaker Kentucker Audley and musician Jake Rabinbach (of Jump Back Jake), with help behind the camera from Chicago indie stalwart Joe Swanberg.
The Grace Card was directed by Memphis optometrist David Evans and co-stars Louis Gossett Jr. The film was recently acquired by Sony Pictures, which has scheduled a February 25th theatrical release for next year.
Open Five, which screens at 9 p.m., also at Playhouse, follows Audley and Rabinbach (playing fictional variations on themselves) as they accompany two out-of-town visitors — both NYC girls and potential love interests — across the city for a weekend. I wrote about the film’s production here.
