The Spirit of '76!
As an ongoing project, we are constantly cleaning, repairing and digitizing the old 16mm film footage here at Ole Miss. In doing that, we try to share bits and pieces of the footage that we discover as we go along. Today’s offering is a hodge-podge of campus scenes from 1976. The footage offers a neat […]
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 with local filmmakers Nitin and […]
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 […]
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 where he filmed contestants at the […]
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 Pig’s Ear By Bret Kenyon […]
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.
Sending out the Fleet
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, an Ole Miss alum and former Mississippi Governor, was the featured speaker at the 2010 commencement ceremony. Secretary Mabus challenged the Ole Miss class of 2010 to to always be ready … ready to learn, ready to serve, and ready to give back as they go their separate ways.
Civil War in Film
MDP was at the Overby Center tonight recording Professor Gary Gallagher’s lecture on the Civil War in Hollywood. The presentation, sponsored by the UM Center for Civil War Research, addressed the main interpretations of the Civil War as depicted in motion pictures.
Sarah's got an eye for Ole Miss
Sarah Kellum is a student-worker of ours who’s interest lie in cinematography. Her first solo flight with a video-camera in hand was last week, and here is what she cut together from her first time out with the Canon XL-1. Over the summer, Sarah will be working with our Panasonic HD cameras, as well as […]
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!
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. Joe is also featured […]
NAB Exhibits Day 3 and Closing
Ahhh. That’s the word for today. After a long week of sessions and speakers and cameras and 3D and 3D and 3D, I’ve finally arrived back in Oxford. It was a great week and I tried to learn as much as I could but it’s nice to be back and I’m excited about getting back […]
NAB Exhibits Day 2
Whew. That’s the key word for yesterday at the NAB convention. I spent more time in the exhibit hall speaking to vendors and checking out the new gear. Once again, the big buzz word around here is 3D. I was amazed at how many different groups carried a 3D solution or rig. I was able […]
NAB Exhibits Day 1
Wow. The best word to describe yesterday’s opening of the exhibit hall at the 2010 NAB covention. Products from manufacturers all over the world were on full display and man did they come out swinging. One of the obvious connections with at least the camera makers were the 3D solutions. Everybody was touting their new […]
Viva!
Matthew Graves here. I’ll be spending the week at the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention in Las Vegas. This annual meeting brings together content providers, filmmakers, visual FX artists, and more to display the new gear and practices in all things audio/visual. In other words, it’s a filmmaker’s heaven on earth. The […]
Invested in Service
Dr. Daniel Jones was inaugurated as the 16th Chancellor of the University of Mississippi in a ceremony this morning in the beautiful Gertrude C. Ford Center for Performing Arts. We will be posting the entire ceremony soon, but for now, here is newly inaugurated Chancellor Dr. Daniel W. Jones’ investiture speech.
Rock It!
As a part of the week of service leading up to the inauguration of Chancellor Jones, we will be producing a retrospective look at the variety of service projects that are happening on campus. One of the events that happened last night was the “Rock the Bus” where Graduate School members collected school supplies for […]
Pathway to Reconcilation
MDP was at the Overby Center tonight for “Ole Miss and the People of the World: A Symposium on Reconciliation.” The panel, sponored by the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, and moderated by Chanellor Dan Jones, looked at ways we can work toward reconciliation with nations we have historically had strained relations with.
Up Close and Personal
I was back in the water today for the profile video I’m producing on the scuba diving class. They let me strap on the gear and stay submerged which was pretty awesome, I’ve got to say. It definitely made a difference in my ability to shoot better footage. This might possibly be the coolest shoot […]
CUD goes Down Under!
CUD, a short film by MDP producer/director Joe York about Georgia cattleman Will Harris, is now an official selection of the Reel Earth Film Fetsival in…..NEW ZEALAND! And that’s not all! This weekend CUD will screen at the Going Green Film Festival in Los Angeles, where it is nominated for the Chipotle Food that Matters […]
Saving Willie Mae's Scotch House airs on Colorado Public Television
Last night “Saving Willie Mae’s Scotch House”, a film by MDP producer/director Joe York, aired on Colorado Public Television. Click here to read the CPT program listing for the film. To date, the film has aired on public television in Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, California, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Oregon, Georgia, and some other states we’re forgetting […]
Tell Your Ma, Tell your Pa, I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas!
MDP Producer/Director Joe York is just back from a week-long video shoot that took him and graduate assistant Alan Pike all across the great state of Arkansas. Collecting footage and interviews for the forthcoming SOUTHERN FOOD: The Movie, their travels included stops in Little Rock, Lake Village, Brinkley, DeValls Bluff, Stuttgart and DeWitt, Arkansas. In […]
Days of Intrigue
The Center for Intelligence and Security Studies recently held their 2nd annual training exercise “The Days of Intrigue”. Over two days, the intelligence analysts-in-training are given a fictitious terrorist plot they must uncover using artificial news and web material. At the end of the exercise, the students brief a visiting policy maker to mimic what […]
The Civil Legal Clinic
The latest Academic Network profile shines the light on the Civil Legal Clinic at the University of Mississippi School of Law. The Civil Legal Clinic helps prepare its students for the actual practice of law by teaching practical skills and substantive law through real life representation of low-income clients under rigorous faculty supervision.
Grisham Reads the Whiskey Speech
For years Soggy Sweat’s Whiskey Speech has been discussed as a particularly fine piece of southern oratory. Judge Noah S. “Soggy” Sweat was John Grisham’s law professor at Ole Miss and a former state legislator. Here Grisham remembers his professor at the Oxford Conference for the Book–this year dedicated to Barry Hannah.
CUT/CHOP/COOK "debuts" at Charleston Food & Wine Festival
On March 6th, MDP & the Southern Foodways Alliance gave folks at the Charleston Food & Wine Festival a sneak peek at their latest short documentary. The film CUT/CHOP/COOK, a profile of pitmaster Rodney Scott of Scott’s Barbecue in Hemingway, South Carolina, was produced and directed by MDP’s Joe York in association with the Union […]
CUD goes to Hollywood
CUD, a co-production by MDP & the Southern Foodways Alliance, will screen in Hollywood at the upcoming Going Green Film Festival on April 2&3. One of only thirty films chosen for the festival, CUD is a short documentary film by Joe York which profiles of Georgia cattleman Will Harris. To learn more about the festival, […]
MDP Films to be featured at Ozark Foothills Film Festival
Earlier this year MDP & our co-producers at the Southern Foodways Alliance were invited by the Ozark Foothills Film Festival to present four films at the festival, which runs from March 26-28 in Batesville, Arkansas. Here’s the write-up in the event from festival director Bob Pest: “New collaborators also include the UM Media & Documentary […]
