Lights, Camera, Vine! - an exploration of jazz's impact on film

1616 East 18th Street,Kansas City MO 64108

30 September, 2021

Description

Lights, Camera, Vine! is a 3-day film series with pre-show receptions & live music, film screenings, and Q&As at the American Jazz Museum. Thursday, September 30th's Schedule 6:00 pm reception with live music8:00 pm film screenings featuring selections from the American Jazz Museum's John H Baker Film Collection, the museum's preview of its "Bird @ 100" concert, and the feature length film Lady Sings The Blues. Feature length film running time: 2 hours 24 minutes.Feature length film rating: R Friday, October 1st's Schedule 5:00 pm reception with live music6:00 pm film screenings featuring selections from the American Jazz Museum's John H Baker Film Collection, the museum's preview of its "Bird @ 100" concert, and the feature length film Mo' Better Blues.Feature length film running time: 2 hours 9 minutes.Feature length film rating: RQ&A to follow after feature film screenings. Saturday, October 2nd's Schedule 3:00 pm reception with live music4:00 pm film screenings featuring selections from the American Jazz Museum's John H Baker Film Collection, the museum's preview of its "Bird @ 100" concert, and a mix of short and long-form films by Kansas City filmmakers Diallo French & Rodney Thompson.Total film running times: approximately1 hourQ&A to follow after film screenings. Get To Know Diallo French Born in Kansas City, Diallo Javonne French started as a musician. He began his filmmaking career when he bought an 8mm motion picture camera at the age of nineteen. Diallo moved to Atlanta Georgia in the early 1990’s and attended Clark Atlanta University majoring in Mass Communications, Radio/T.V./Film. While attending school he worked as a production assistant on several music videos that included such artists as TLC, Outkast, Goodie Mob, Xscape, Raven Symone, Usher and with director Hype Williams. He is an award winning filmmaker and jazz photographer with a BET (Black Entertainment Television) film to his credit entitled May This Be Love. His photographs have been used on Hallmark Cards, exhibited in the American Jazz Museum, Vine Street Studio, Buttonwood Art Space, Keyhole Gallery, and The Box Gallery. Get To Know Rodney Thompson Rodney Thompson is a long-time Kansas City filmmaker focusing on the impact of the 18th & Vine District and jazz in Kansas City. Some projects include Confessin' The Blues, capturing the music of jazz pianist Jay McShann, Sons of a Hoofer, capturing the story of entertainers Lonnie and Ronnie McFadden and their own father's entertainment legacy, and A Conversation In Dancing, capturing the legacy of the two-stepping dance style. One of his most recent films, I Remember 12th Street, is a documentary film about the history of Kansas City’s storied 12th Street, the subject of song and jazz legends, as told through first hand accounts by people who recall the 1940’s and 1950’s, one of the most fascinating periods in the city’s history.