High-profile film-fest favorites, made-in-Memphis local debuts, and a restored print of a cinema classic highlight selections for this year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival, which starts Thursday, November 3rd and takes place at three Midtown venues, Studio on the Square, the Brooks Museum of Art, and Playhouse on the Square, and which picked up a new presenting sponsor this year in the form of Duncan-Williams, Inc.
Among the early selections Indie Memphis is releasing this week are local debuts of two recent locally shot films, the documentary Undefeated and the feature Losers Take All. Undefeated, which premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival earlier this year, follows three players on the Manassas High School football team over the course of a season. Losers Take All is an indie comedy about a 1980s indie rock band whose music was crafted by contemporary Memphis musicians. Both films will screen at Playhouse on the Square.
Losers Take All trailer:
Among the high-profile selections that have drawn strong notices recently at other festivals are: Melancholia, the latest feature from Danish provocateur Lars von Trier, which stars Kirsten Dunst won Best Actress this summer at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance as a new bride celebrating her marriage on the precipice of global disaster. Martha Marcy May Marlene filmmaker Sean Durkin won a Best Director prize at Sundance earlier this year for this psychological thriller about a young woman escaping from a rural cult.
Melancholia trailer:
