Crossroads Film Festival Announces the Winners for the 2008 Festival
- Best Music Video: Fashionable
Cameron McCasland, Director.
- Best Experimental Film: Doxology
Michael Langan, Director.
- Best Animated Film: The Hunger Artist
Tom Gibbons, Director.
- Best Student Film: Last Day of December
Bogdan George Apetri, Director.
- Best Narrative Short: Spider
Nash Edgerton, Director.
- Best Documentary Short: Hero, Wings are Not Necessary to Fly
Angel Loza, Director.
- Best Documentary Feature: Beyond the Call
Adrian Belic, Director.
- Best Narrative Feature: Disappearances
Jay Craven, Director.
- Director’s Choice: Of All the Things
Jody Lambert, Director.
- RUMA Award (Most Promising Mississippi Filmmaker):
Another Word for Family
April Grayson, Director.
- Best Youth Film Entry: What’s Up
Curtis Everitt, Director.
- Audience Choice Award (tie):
Control - Anton Corbijn, Director
Pretty Ugly People - Tate Taylor, Director
The 9th Annual Crossroads Film Festival
April 3-6, 2008
4 Days, 70+ Films, Music & Workshops
Parkway Place Theatre, Lakeland Dr.
- ALL-ACCESS Festival Passes are available here.
- Tickets for individual events are available here.
- Call our Ticket Hotline at 800-838-3006.
The All-Access Festival
Pass is the best way to enjoy the full 4-Day festival and reserve your seat at
every film. This Pass offers entry to all events at one low price and offers
exclusive access to meet & greet filmmaker receptions, as well as all films,
workshops, panel discussions and after parties.
Purchase Your Pass Online Now. Pick it Up
at Will Call during the festival or have it Shipped to You or CALL
our Ticket Hotline 24/7 at 800-838-3006 to order your passes or tickets for individual films.
The Crossroads Film
Society presents it’s 9th Annual Crossroads Film Festival, incorporating 70+
films, local and national recording artists, pre- and post- parties and a
variety of workshops and panels. Each afternoon kicks off with a Meet &
Greet Reception for filmmakers and pass-holders,
providing multiple opportunities for fans to visit with filmmakers. Each
evening ends with music at downtown venues, including Latin, indie rock,
trip-hop, roots rock and 70’s soul group, Wiley & the Checkmates.
Screenings begin at 7 p.m.
on Thursday at Regal Parkway Place Theater (Lakeland Dr. @ Airport Rd.) and run
through Sunday evening and include the first two films of Crossroads 2008 Global Lens Film Series, promoting
cross-cultural understanding through cinema. Films from India and Argentina
will be shown. Saturday at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Crossroads will offer
a free Children’s Storyboards & Flipbooks workshop and a screening of
movies made by kids sponsored by the Canton Film Office. Other workshops
include Youth Animation, Teen Filmmaking, Sound for Film, New Media, Film &
Music: Legal Issues, and Indy-pendent Filmmaking, featuring two Mississippians
who, as teenagers, made a nationally noted recreation of Raiders of the Lost
Ark.
Jackson natives Tate
Taylor and Brunson Green, writer and producer, will be in attendance for the
opening night film, Pretty Ugly People,
about a dying woman’s attempt to bring six estranged college friends together
in the Montana wilderness. Another Jackson native, producer Orian Williams, will be in attendance at Friday’s screening of Control, starring Samantha Morton—a narrative feature based
around the late singer of Joy Division, Ian Curtis. The highly acclaimed I’m Not There, a journey into the life
and times of Bob Dylan, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and
Heath Ledger, will screen Saturday night. Following Saturday’s Screening of Bonnington Truce: An Alternative History of
Mississippi, Bonnington Truce will play a
one-night only reunion show at the Crossroads after party in the Hal and Mal’s brew pub with the Awards Ceremony happening in the Big Room.
Other notable films include Lars and the
Real Girl (Ryan Gosling), What Would
Jesus Buy? (Reverend Billy), thought-provoking
documentaries, and innovative blocks of short films.
And don’t miss the only
film to win two awards at 2008’s prestigious Sundance Film Festival! The
Mississippi-made Ballast will screen
Saturday night, with Mississippi-based cast and crew in attendance.
Saturday’s Awards Party at
Hal & Mal’s will recognize the best features, shorts, documentaries,
student and youth films, animation and experimental films and music video.
All-Access passes make great gifts!
For a limited time buy them online: $65 All-Access Pass/$55 for Crossroads members.
Or purchase them at the festival: $80 All-Access Pass/$70 for Crossroads member
Crossroads
Members will receive a discount code via email to enter at checkout to recieve your discount.
The
Schedule & Film Listings can be viewed HERE.
Filmmakers from Mississippi and around the world present and compete in the
categories of Feature Film, Short, Documentary, Experimental, Foreign, Student,
Music Video and Animation. Q & A filmmakers, panel discussion, After
Parties each night at Hal & Mal's, Mississippi Filmmaker Showcase, Saturday
filmmaker & acting workshops, Sat. night Awards Party, and more. Music at After Parties by regional and national recording artists
and much more.
If you think you know Mississippi ... think again! Jackson, Mississippi is the
cultural crossroads of the south (hence the name - Crossroads Film Festival)
and is the place where all the good stuff gets thrown together.
This is where the music of delta bluesman Robert Johnson runs
straight into the home of the international ballet competition.
We are home to Tennessee Williams, Willie Morris, Eudora Welty,
William Faulkner, James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, and some of
the world’s greatest historians, photographers, and musicians.
We are also home to some real quirky and creative folks, a
little southern hospitality, fried catfish, sweet tea, and a film festival to
rival the best of them. Come see us, and we will show you a great time.
