In February, the UM Media & Documentary Projects Center and the Southern Foodways Alliance began work on a year-long project. The result will be a feature-length documentary film "Southern Food: The Movie." Joe York, who is directing the film, recently returned from a two-week turn along the Gulf Coast ...
A very nice notice of Cut/Chop/Cook on the Sizzle on the Grill blog where they ask and answer: "What is REAL barbeque? – This." The blog goes on to say "The University of Mississippi’s Media & Documentary Projects Center & the Southern Foodways Alliance created this video profile of Rodney Scott, ...
Micah and Matthew have been helping create a new generation of filmmakers this week teaching the University of Mississippi's ninth annual Filmmaking Workshop. The class is four days of intensive instruction in the techniques of filmmaking as well as an opportunity for students to get hand-on experience with all aspects ...
Congrats to Tyler Keith, Eric Griffis, and Meghan Leonard--Southern Studies grad. students whose film on the Brown Family Dairy was featured in the New York Times today with a wonderful article on the Brown family. This film came out of the Documentary Fieldwork class that we taught last spring with ...
Here are the final projects from the Southern Studies Documentary Fieldwork class we taught this semester with David Wharton. We are proud of the graduate students and the hard work that went into producing these documentaries. "Biker's Preacher", by Novelette Brown, Jake Fussell, and Amanda Lillard "A Grit Flick," by J. Bingo ...
Here is a Jackson Free Press review of "Smokes and Ears" that came out just before the Crossroads Film Festival--where it won the Best Mississippi Film award. This review sums up the Mission of the Media and Documentary Projects Center about as well as anything I could write. In a ...
Here are a few excerpts from the Keynote Address and Sustainability Leadership Award Ceremony that took place yesterday at Off-Square Books as part of the University's Green Week celebration. Enjoy!
A collection of still and video moments that capture the spirit of the University of Mississippi. Produced by Karen Tuttle of the Media & Documentary Projects Center.
Congratulations to Joe York whose "Smokes and Ears" took home the Ruma Award at the Crossroads Film Festival. The award, designed by artist Wyatt Waters honors the best Mississippi film. Joe has had quite a run this last month with screenings of films in California, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, and upcoming in New Zealand. ...
This past Saturday, Micah Ginn and Chris Williams helped out during the Oxford Film Festival's Kid's Filmmaking Workshop. The event was hosted by the Boys & Girls Club of Oxford, with many of their members taking part in the production, as well as non-members from the community. The children worked ...
This free seminar covers the basics of shooting good video. Be it for the home movie shooter, or the burgeoning filmmaker, this free workshop will introduce the basics of composition, light, sound, and camera movement. Bring your home movie camera for help understanding ...
On Tuesday, June 22 from 7 until 8:30, the Oxford Film Fest, in partnership with the Center for Media and Documentary Projects at the University of Mississippi, will host a free clinic at the Powerhouse on preserving your home movies. Whether your films ...
"Smokes & Ears" a co-production of the University of Mississippi's Media & Documentary Projects Center & the Southern Foodways Alliance, was featured today in Jackson's Clarion Ledger. Check out the article here. The short documentary by Joe York chronicles the Big Apple Inn, a sandwich shop ...
Here is the latest addition to the Academic Network profile video series we have been producing this year. This profile focuses on the School of Engineering, touching on the variety of programs that students can focus on including Civil, Chemical, Geological, Mechanical, General, Electrical, and Computer Science. This particular profile ...
Last week, MDP producer Joe York traveled to New York to screen his latest short documentary Cut/Chop/Cook at the Big Apple BBQ Block Party and at the Southern Foodways Alliance's Potlikker Film Festival NYC. The film profiles Rodney Scott of Scott's Bar-B-Q in Hemingway, South Carolina. Says Scott, "We ...
In February, MDP and the Southern Foodways Alliance embarked on a year-long project which will result in the feature-length documentary "Southern Food: The Movie". Since then, project director Joe York has filmed segments throughout South Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee, and along the Gulf Coast from Empire, Louisiana, to Apalachicola, Florida. In ...
Maybe you can help put some names with these faces. This film had no label, so during our transferring process we had no way to know who was in it or when it was made. It was made by folks here on campus but that’s about all we know. If you can identify anyone in [...]
As promised and only a week late, here is the exclusive, world premiere of the 2010 Ole Miss Filmmaking Workshop Action Movie Trailer, “The UnRetireds” Special thanks goes out to all the (patient) students in the workshop whose talents are on full display in the trailer. Best of luck to each of them as they [...]
Micah, our new student worker Matt Minshew, and I were out and about on campus this morning documenting the first day of class. It was cool to see the students starting the semester. They seem so excited. Maybe we should document the 2nd week of class and compare. Anyways, here is the short highlight video [...]
With only 1 more day to go until the world premiere of “The UnRetireds”, what would a fake action movie trailer be without a blooper reel to accompany it? Check back tomorrow afternoon for the finished trailer!
This is the Ford Center Promo I did for the upcoming 2010-2011 Season! Hope you enjoy it.
Karen Tuttle
It’s been a while since I’ve posted so I wanted to come back with a bang. Micah and I recently wrapped up the 2010 Summer Film Workshop where 12 high school and college age kids put up with us for a week of film theory lectures, tutorials, and film screenings. As part of the class [...]
A very nice notice of Cut/Chop/Cook on the Sizzle on the Grill blog where they ask and answer: “What is REAL barbeque? – This.”
The blog goes on to say “The University of Mississippi’s Media & Documentary Projects Center & the Southern Foodways Alliance created this video profile of Rodney Scott, a second generation owner/operator of [...]
Micah and Matthew have been helping create a new generation of filmmakers this week teaching the University of Mississippi’s ninth annual Filmmaking Workshop. The class is four days of intensive instruction in the techniques of filmmaking as well as an opportunity for students to get hand-on experience with all aspects of creating a film. Stay [...]
Media & Documentary Projects recently teamed up with the Oxford Film Festival, the YAC, Rock Star Taxi and First National Bank to host a seminar on home movie preservation. As a primer for the event, we showed this 2-minute highlight reel of some of the images we’ve transferred here over the past few years. We’ve [...]
“Smokes & Ears” a co-production of the University of Mississippi’s Media & Documentary Projects Center & the Southern Foodways Alliance, was featured today in Jackson’s Clarion Ledger. Check out the article here. The short documentary by Joe York chronicles the Big Apple Inn, a sandwich shop on Farish Street in Jackosn, [...]
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