Blessing of the Fleet
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 ...
Cut/Chop/Cook is “Sizzling”
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, ...
Class is In!
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 ...
SST in the NYT!
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 ...
Harvest Time Again
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 ...
Documenting Our Backyard
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 ...
Green Week
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!
Ole Miss Moments
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.
Congrats to Joe York
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. ...
The Kids stay in the picture!
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 ...
The basics of shooting good video
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 ...
Preserving your home movies
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” NYC screening featured in Clarion Ledger
"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 ...
Engineering a New Academic Network Profile
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 ...
Cut/Chop/Cook
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 ...
“Southern Food: The Movie” gets nod in “The Atlantic”
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 ...
Ford Center Promo 2010-2011 Season
This is the Ford Center Promo I did for the upcoming 2010-2011 Season! Hope you enjoy it.
Karen Tuttle