A couple of weeks ago at a series of local premiere screenings for $5 Cover and its ancillary documentaries, filmmaker Craig Brewer sounded the alarm on behalf of Indie Memphis, the local film organization that has put on its annual festival for the past 11 years in addition to other programming.
At each screening, Brewer implored attendees to support Indie Memphis or risk losing it. It wasn’t, at the time, an unrealistic fear.
Indie Memphis is coming off its biggest and best festival ever last fall, the first under fulltime executive director Erik Jambor. But the combination of an enhanced budget and a faltering economy put Indie Memphis in precarious financial waters that the organization seems to have navigated, at least in the short term.
“We had some funding lined up that fell through, and it was a bit of a surprise to us,” says Les Edwards, the longtime Indie Memphis director and current board chairman.
