StoryBoard Shorts, Doc-Fest Memphis LAUNCH PARTY

158 Vance Avenue,Memphis TN 38103

16 November, 2022

Description

Memphis has always been known as a playground for developing raw, untapped talent and fostering the creative community, regardless of age, income or community. StoryBoard Shorts Doc Fest harnesses that tradition in a grass-roots festival and competition open to all, designed to help budding filmmakers prepare their work, meet important industry contacts, and gather resources and support needed to show their work, finish their short films or submit or prep them for larger festivals like Indie Memphis. Join us November 16 Wednesday evening at 158 Vance, the beautiful new home of Connects Music and a future multimedia hub, over drinks and charcuterie, to hear all about this new storytelling opportunity for the community, and to hear about how you too can help us make this new opportunity successful. Doc Fest is a new talent development initiative that provides budding filmmakers with an open invitation to submit their short* nonfiction films (*10 minutes or less) to be screened and reviewed by film industry experts and entered into a cash-prize competition. Finalists' works will be screened in person and virtually June 2-3, 2023. Filmmakers are encouraged to submit works that meet the StoryBoard mission of supporting and shining a light on local arts, history, culture, and community. By definition, a storyboard represents a work in progress. And since its inception, StoryBoard Memphis has become a local platform and curator, an opportunity for budding storytellers across all demographics, with finished works or works-in-progress or who may not feel yet ready for larger multimedia publications. Since our beginnings we have met and honed that mission, as many of our new storytellers have gone on to publish books and have gotten gigs with local publications like The Commercial Appeal and The Daily Memphian. StoryBoard Shorts Doc Fest applies the same methodology, providing new filmmakers with opportunities and pathways to have their short works and works-in-progress seen, rated and reviewed, preparing them for entries into the larger, established festivals. Categories include films created locally in Memphis and Shelby County; regionally outside county lines in the Mid-South (Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana); nationally and internationally outside the Mid-South. Additional categories for 901 teen filmmakers in partnership with local libraries and local college and university filmmakers within Shelby County. PARKING: There is ample parking around 158 Vance, between 2nd Street and B.B. King Blvd. There is: a PAID LOT, Premier Parking Lot, at 163 Doctor M.L.K. Jr Ave; FREE Street Parking on Vance Ave., South Side of Street, Directly across from 158 Vance (Event Location); on MAIN STREET is 2 Blocks up Vance (going west); on 2nd street (South West of Vance Ave); along PONTOTOC STREET (Goes East to West), behind 158 Vance; Street parking on B.B. King Blvd, west side of street, south of Vance