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Welcome to the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission

Greetings and welcome to the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission’s new web site! Brimming with new features and up-to-date information, we invite you to come in and look around to get a peek at what Memphis & Shelby County have to offer film productions of all sizes. Take a minute to browse our location library in Reel-Scout, check out our diverse production guide, or get a taste of productions that have shot here and utilized our crew base over at Film Memphis TV!

Supporting Partners of The Memphis and Shelby County Film and Television Commission:

Special thanks to Christopher Reyes, Sarah Fleming, and the crew over at Live From Memphis for their outstanding hard work in making this web site possible. Thanks also to content editor Jon W. Sparks.

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Wed - 10 Mar Written by Jon W Sparks

A story in today's New York Times talks about a film and television titles competition coming up at South by Southwest. One of the 18 finalists is Mike McCarthy's "Cigarette Girl," which gets a parenthetical mention in the story:

(Among the entries at South by Southwest, “Cigarette Girl,” an independent film about a world in which smoking restrictions have murderous consequences, is one that recalls the Bass oeuvre: guns, cigarettes and people flicker between the real and the abstract, over a cool-toned soundtrack.)

Read the NYT story here.

Memphis Chamber meets Indie Memphis

Sat - 06 Mar Written by Jon W Sparks

“Festivals enhance the cultural life of a city. We have judges and special guests who fall in love with Memphis and want to come back. It’s a pattern we see over and over.”

Erik Jambor, executive director of Indie Memphis, said these words as part of his presentation Thursday morning to the Greater Memphis Chamber’s Breakfast Forum.

Read Joe Boone's story in the Daily News here.

JMM revives Sivad

Thu - 04 Mar Written by Jon W Sparks

John Michael McCarthy - aka the Godfather of Memphis indie film - is one of the instigators of the upcoming tribute to Sivad (see posting below).

Here's a link to Les Smith's story and video on Channel 13/MyFox Memphis on JMM's re-creation of one of the Fantastic Features episodes from those black-and-white days of yore and gore.

$5 Cover nominated for Streamy Awards

Wed - 03 Mar Written by Jon W Sparks

The made-in-Memphis production "$5 Cover" has been nominated for two Streamy Awards, an event that honors excellence in original web television programming and those who create it.

The Craig Brewer project has been nominated for Best New Web Series, and for Best Editing in a Web Series (Nathan Black, Morgan Jon Fox, Josh Swain).

Here's the Streamy Web site. Winners will be announced in April.