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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.

The Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission, like other publicly-funded film commissions in the U.S.A., works only with funded productions and does not assist producers in securing funding for projects.

The Film Commission's Website makes available hiring/casting information from third parties. This information is to be used as general information only. Although such information is believed to be generally reliable, the posting of the information on the commission website does not constitute an endorsement, recommendation, or solicitation from the Commission. Nor does the Posting imply any assurance regarding the accuracy of the information, the funding of the project, the completion of the project, or the payment to crew/vendors/cast.

Carrier's API wins 'Remy' at Worldfest Houston for Stax video

Mon - 13 May Written by Jon W Sparks

API Photographers Inc., the Memphis production firm owned by Bill Carrier III, won a prestigious "Remy" award for best music video at Worldfest Houston International Film Festival. The made-in-Memphis video, Stax, The Early Years, which has appeared on PBS, was directed by Carrier, written by his wife, Tess Carrier, and edited by Natsuko Kobayashi.

Worldfest Houston celebrated its 46th annual independent film awards in April. There were more than 4,000 entries and 540 filmmakers from more than 33 nations. There is only one recipient of the "Remy" in each of nine "best of show" categories.

A “Gold” award was also given to API for MLGW’s Call Before You Dig in the public service TV commercial category. The same production crew created the "Call Before You Dig" project.

Carrier is a long-time member of the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission. These awards join numerous Addy and Telly awards that API has won.

Pictured: Bill Carrier III

Board meeting May 15

Wed - 08 May Written by Jon W Sparks

There will be a meeting of the Members of the Board of the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission on Wed., May 15 at noon at Malco's Studio on the Square Theater (2105 Court Ave.).

Memphis' Paper Moon premieres films in LA, NY

Wed - 08 May Written by Jon W Sparks

The two latest films by Memphis-based production company Paper Moon Films have secured premieres in Los Angeles and New York City.

The upcoming film Forty Years from Yesterday by directors Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck will have a world premiere in competition at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival in June. Pilgrim Song by director Martha Stephens has been selected by Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) to make its theatrical premiere for a weeklong run at the reRun theatre in Brooklyn after a year of festival screenings.

Paper Moon Films is a Memphis-based film production company, co-founded by Nick Case and Ryan Watt in 2009, to increase the visibility of emerging artists. It has been a client of the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission.

Paper Moon Films produced Kentucker Audley's Open Five, which was listed on the 'Top 25 Films of 2010' by The New Yorker. Their second feature, Pilgrim Song by Martha Stephens, premiered in competition at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival and was awarded 'Best Southern Film of 2012' by Oxford American Magazine. Their third feature, The Romance of Loneliness by Sarah Ledbetter and Matteo Servente, is currently on the festival circuit. Upcoming projects include Brent Stewart's 2011 Sundance Creative Producing Summit Fellow film Child of God and Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck's Nebraska.

For more on Paper Moon, go here.

On Location: Memphis going strong

Sat - 27 Apr Written by Jon W Sparks

The 14th annual On Location: Memphis International Film & Music Fest continues today and Sunday with film, music and workshops.

The Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission has been a sponsor of the festival — which offers features, documentaries, live action shorts, animation and music videos — for all 14 years of the event.

Film Commissioner Linn Sitler was on the "Filmmaking As An Economic Development Engine" panel at noon. The Commission assisted on Avarice, written and directed by Rachel M. Taylor and produced by Dan Baker.

Also on Saturday is Narcissus, a Lithuanian film featuring former Memphis Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Susanna Perry Gilmore.

Tomorrow, three new short films from the University of Memphis will be screened: Scenes from King Lear co-directed by Anita Jo Lenhart and Steven J. Ross, the Brian Fruits-Stephen Hildreth collaboration comedy Yellow Light (Lauren Scott and Katie Zisson in lead roles) and David Goodman's documentary meditation on mortality, Ash/Requiem.

Closing the festival are: The Last White Knight, Canadian Paul Salzman’s documentary about meeting the former Klansman who assaulted him in Mississippi during the Civil Rights struggle, and Midnight’s Children, an adaption of Salman Rushdie’s book that tells the story of two children growing up in India post-British rule.

Visit onlocationmemphis.org for a full lineup and more information. OL:M information is on your smartphone by downloading the Festival Genius app.