WALKING TALL IN TCHULA
We have just learned that Kenneth Hampton recently resigned from his position as Chief of Police of Tchula. “Walking Tall in Tchula” is a short film by Producer / Director Rex Jones that profiled Chief Hampton on the job and the work he was doing in his community. Good luck, Chief. (Watch full film […]
BEAUTIFUL JIM @ MILLSAPS…
In observance of World AIDS Day. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=971232636237842&id=367264993301279&refid=17
LA FRONTERA DISPATCH – VOL. 4
Welcome to week 4 of LA FRONTERA, coming to you from beautiful Alpine, Texas. Mark took a week off to go back home for a previous commitment, so I used this time to loop back with some people. But first I had a great weekend with my wonderful wife, Cara. Here’s a gratuitous vacation photo for your […]
LA FRONTERA DISPATCH – VOL. 5
Welcome to week 5 of LA FRONTERA. This blog will not be as detailed as my previous ones since I’ve fallen behind on my journal, but I’ll hit the high spots. Had a nice Thanksgiving dinner with Mark and Bob at an unnamed hotel in Marathon (so unnamed because there were no comps). The road […]
Andalusia Star article on the border walk
http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/2014/11/18/local-man-walking-nearly-1200-miles/
LA FRONTERA DISPATCH – VOL. 3
Welcome to week 3 of LA FRONTERA, coming to you after four hours of cleanup and refresh after a nasty PC infection. I really miss my Mac. PC people, if you move to Mac then you won’t have any more trouble with any of this virus and bloatware nonsense. Sunday 11/09 Sadness ensued as Hizzoner Jack Chappell rolled off […]
LA FRONTERA DISPATCH – VOL. 2
Welcome to week 2 of LA FRONTERA. Sunday 11/02 Went to Socorro and visited with Tanya Carbajal and family at her grandmother’s farm. Tanya is the daughter of Orlando Carbajal, a farmer we met in Fort Hancock last week. Tanya is a student in journalism and new media at UTEP, and she is just as good in […]
LA FRONTERA DISPATCH – VOL. 1
Welcome to the chronicle of week 1 of LA FRONTERA. My plan to publish daily dispatches proved to be much too ambitious, so instead I shall be issuing weekly digests of our adventure. Saturday 10/25 Made it to Abilene in about 11 hours. Dodged a couch in the middle of six lanes of traffic on I-10; […]
LA FRONTERA – INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY MARKER #1
Just got back from a scout trip to tomorrow morning’s launching point of our expedition.
BEAUTIFUL JIM @ Delta State’s Diversity in Performance Series TONIGHT @ 7P
http://www.deltastate.edu/news-and-events/event/diversity-in-performance-series-2/
LA FRONTERA
In one week, I’ll be commencing production on my latest feature, LA FRONTERA, which will chronicle the journey of Mark Hainds as he walks the 1200-mile length of the Rio Grande as it borders Texas and Mexico. I’ll be updating the blog as we make our way east from El Paso to Boca Chica, but in the meantime, […]
Winter is Coming
We had a wonderful screening of the Toughest Job: William Winter’s Mississippi in Jackson last Thursday night to kickoff the broadcast premiere on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. Kudos to MPB for creating beautiful banners to match the poster graphics for the film. There’s an additional broadcast tonight on MPB at 8pm and a free screening in […]
Dobrý den!
Greetings from Prague, Czech Republic. We’re currently in production on a new project, documenting the Ole Miss Opera and their performance of Hamlet in the Czech Republic in the Spring. I’ve gotten the opportunity to accompany University professor Julia Aubrey who is directing the opera to Prague as she visits several opera houses to select […]
I have to Write
“I Have To Write” from UM Media Documentary Projects on Vimeo. This is a short documentary on author Frank Tuttle. I’ve always wanted to do a documentary on my husband and now seemed as good a time as any. I hope you enjoy! Karen Tuttle
They Didn't Get Famous (but Camilla might!)
Camilla Ann Aikin just completed an independent study with MDP’s Andy Harper on the Southern independent music scene in the 1980s. The class, which consisted of research, writing, and oral history interviews culminates with a short film. And here it is! Please note that this is the earlier class version. The finished version is here.
Mississippi Innocence Panel at Overby
Monday night the The Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics hosted a screening of Mississippi Innocence and a riveting panel discussion that followed the film. Moderated by Journalism professor Cynthia Joyce, the panel consisted of Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Fred Banks, Huffington Post Senior writer Radley Balko, New York Times Reporter Campbell Robertson […]
York Mini Festival This Week
Media and Documentary Projects and the Southern Foodways Alliance, two institutes of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, will present Three Recent Foodways Films by Joe York on Thursday, October 20 at noon in Paul B. Johnson Commons on the University of Mississippi campus. The event is free […]
Harrison Screening
Joe York and Andy Harper spent last weekend in Harrison, Arkansas for a screening of Mississippi Innocence as part of the Ozark Art Council fall arts series. The event, sponsored by the Harrison Community Task Force on Race Relations was outstanding and Levon and Kenny were moved by the outpouring of support from the full house […]
More Pork from York
Last weekend Joe York premiered his latest film at the Big Apple BBQ Block Party in New York. “To Live and Die in Avoyelles Parish” documents the thriving cochon de lait tradition near Mansura, Louisiana. This film is part of a larger project MDP is producing with the Southern Foodways Alliance called “Southern Food: The […]
End of the Semester Projects
It’s been a very busy semester for MDP Student Projects. Included here are the films created by the Southern Studies 534 course that we teach with Dr. David Wharton. Enjoy the films! The Beacon. A film by Camilla Ann Aikin, Aristide LeFeve, and Abby Olivier.
It’s That Time Again…..
It’s crunch time again for students in our Documentary Fieldwork class. Projects this semester include an exploration of Hip Hop and Rap Cultures in Oxford, a look at Yokna Bottoms Farm, a discussion of Tennessee Williams and Cultural Tourism, and profiles on The Beacon and Square Books. Student groups have three weeps to wrap production […]
Mississippi Innocence Wins at Crossroads
Mississippi Innocence took the Transformational Film Award at the Crossroads Film Festival in Jackson this past weekend. The award is given to the film most likely to transform attitudes and inspire change. Mississippi Innocence screened to a full house and the question and answer session featured a spirited discussion about possibly opening up additional cases […]
The Votes are In!
From the Oxford Film Festival website: “The 2011 Oxford Film Festival came to a close last Sunday night, and now the ballots for audience favorite are in. Mississippi Innocence, the non-competition documentary by filmmaker Joe York, took home the top prize for overall audience favorite. Two years in the making and produced with Tucker Carrington and […]
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 David Wharton at the Center […]
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 Gunter “Brown Family […]
