Oxford Film Fest

My short documentary "The South Will Rise Again" was awarded "Best Mississippi Documentary" at this year's Oxford Film Festival. You can see my acceptance speech here:

And you can see the actual film here:

Why the OFF Matters

Nice blog post, "Why the Oxford Film Festival Mattes," by Eric Snider, one of the film critics who attended the festival:

Oxford just wrapped up its sixth edition, with 29 features and more than 50 shorts unspooling over the course of a long weekend at the local cineplex, and festival organizers say attendance has been steadily increasing with each passing year. It's easy for outsiders to assume that a festival in a small town -- especially, let's not beat around the bush here, one in Mississippi -- would be of little interest to average moviegoers, but that hasn't been the case. The screenings tend to be full, with students from Oxford's University of Mississippi comprising part of the audience, along with plenty of regular ol' local residents.

Film Fest Recap

Write-up of the Oxford Film Fest, courtesy of the Oxford Film Freak. Here are the winners:

Best Narrative Feature: Make-Out with Violence
Best Documentary Feature: Crude Independence
Best Narrative Short: The Wednesdays
Best Documentary Short: Mississippi Drug War Blues, the Cory Maye Story
Best Music Video: Crystal
Best Animated Short: Symphony
Best Experimental Film: Grand Wheel
Audience Award: Prom Night in Mississippi

More write-ups here and here.

Neshoba

Neshoba was the best film I saw, this past weekend, at the Oxford Film Festival: