NOTE:

Clarksdale Film Festival schedule subject to change. Film festival tickets valid for Delta Cinemas and History Bus Tours only. Nighttime music venues have separate cover charges.

*** Three asterisks in a row indicate special guests!

Look for three asterisks (***) in a row after many of the films listed below. This indicates that filmmakers, actors or representatives are planning to attend.

DELTA CINEMAS LOBBY

Doors officially open and ticket/merchandise sales begin.

Ask about our "Weekend Pass".

FILM FESTIVAL TICKETS

• $5 per day or $10 weekend pass (Thurs-Sun, Jan 26-29, 2012). • On sale at Delta Cinema during festival. • Festival merchandise sales (hats and long sleeve tees).

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

Stan Street

Sean "Bad" Apple one-man blues band

Hill Country and Delta blues by Clarksdale's own...

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Sean "Bad" Apple performs live blues

Complimentary hors d'oeuvres from OXBOW

Courtesy of Oxbow Restaurant (115 Third St.) while they last.

www.facebook.com/pages/Oxbow-Restaurant-and-Catering/139314899463353

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

Jacqueline Nassar

Festival Welcome

Official welcome by festival organizers from the Clarksdale Downtown Development Association (CDDA).

MEMPHIS HEAT: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin'

7:10pm - Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin' (91 min., adult language/sports violence) – Clarksdale premiere with Q&A / Meet-and-greet featuring wrestlers "Superstar" Bill Dundee & Buddy Wayne plus director Chad Schaffler & executive producer Ron Hall. Documents the wild and wooly history of Memphis and Mid-South professional wrestling – once seen on local TV and a few times a year at the Clarksdale Civic Auditorium. From the carnival days of cult hero Sputnik Monroe (who integrated the Memphis wrestling audience before the Civil Rights movement) to masked men, midgets, tag teams, female wrestlers, and the rise of bad-guy heel Jerry "the King" Lawler and Jimmy “Mouth of the South” Hart in the 1970s, Memphis Heat delves into a time-forgotten, pre-cable TV world where almost anything happened inside and outside of the wrestling ring and no holds were barred!***

www.memphisheatthemovie.com/

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

Stan Street and The Hambone Band host weekly BLUES JAM.

Casual, TV screenings of popular movies to enjoy while you drink or dine.

See event program or individual restaurants for listings.

*** Three asterisks in a row indicate special guests!

Look for three asterisks (***) in a row after many of the films listed below. This indicates that filmmakers, actors or representatives are planning to attend.

FILM FESTIVAL TICKETS

• $5 per day or $10 weekend pass (Thurs-Sun, Jan 26-29, 2012). • On sale at Delta Cinema during festival. • Festival merchandise sales (hats and long sleeve tees).

Barefoot Workshops: Clarksdale Retrospective, Part I

11am-1:15pm – Barefoot Workshops: Clarksdale Retrospective, Part I – "Best of" selection of award-winning film shorts shot over the past half decade in Clarksdale and vicinity highlighting notable residents, businesses, blues music and history.

www.barefootworkshops.org

Casual, TV screenings of popular movies to enjoy while you drink or dine.

See event program or individual restaurants for listings.

The Story of Cotton (60 min.)

Historian Willy Bearden and Deep Delta Films presents The Story of Cotton – a complicated history forever tied the Delta and Deep South; documentary features amazing archival photos, contemporary interviews and more to tell the story.

The Blues (90 min.)

Award-winning, archival The Blues film comes to us via Robert Gibbons and Canadian television circa 1966. It features rare interviews and beautiful performances by Mississippi natives Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, Bukka White and more -- all caught in their prime, in a comfortable setting.

It's Not About Film (15 min.)

Barefoot Workshops’ documentary program teaches filmmakers with no-to-some experience professional filmmaking techniques in just two weeks—by telling the stories of people in the Clarksdale area. This film, directed by Barefoot alum Karen Kohlhaas, follows a Barefoot group from first class to final screening – with a few mishaps along the way!

Hard Times: The Blues Life of Big George Brock (69 min.)

The archetypal "Delta gone North" story of the Mississippi bluesman is told through eyes and music of then-74-year-old Big George Brock. Damien Blaylock directs; Roger Stolle produces. Filmed half in St. Louis and half in Clarksdale.

www.filmbaby.com/films/940

Bite Size trailer (3 min.)

4 kids, 3 cities, 1 future. Bite Size (coming soon) will tell a story and seek a pledge to "create a healthier system and reverse childhood obesity." Filmed partly in Clarksdale.

Southern Foodways Alliance (55 min.)

Four fabulous Southern foodie film shorts: Ride That Pig (12 mins), Phat Thai (17 mins), Eat or We Both Starve (13 min), and To Live and Die (13 mins)... from director Joe York and the Southern Foodways Alliance in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture's Media and Documentary Projects Center at the University of Mississippi.

southernfoodways.org

3:05 pm

We Juke Up In Here: Mississippi's Juke Joint Culture at the Crossroads trailer (3 min.)

Preview trailer for upcoming film exploring the past, present and future of the Magnolia State's juke joint culture and music. From the makers of "M for Mississippi."

www.wejukeupinhere.com

M for Mississippi: A Road Trip through the Birthplace of the Blues (94 min.)

Filmed partly in Clarksdale, the award-winning M for Mississippi follows two blues fans -- Jeff Konkel and Roger Stolle -- on a week-long road trip to visit some of the region’s last surviving delta blues characters and juke joints -- including James "T-Model" Ford and Red's Lounge.

www.mformississippi.com

Casual, TV screenings of popular movies to enjoy while you drink or dine.

See event program or individual restaurants for listings.

Mississippi Innocence (60 min.)

A film by Joe York and Media & Documentary Projects at the University of Mississippi. "Every story of a wrongful conviction and exoneration is incredible, but the one in Noxubee County, Mississippi, has got to be one of the best" – John Grisham (author of The Innocent Man).

mississippiinnocencefilm.com/

Watermelon Slim (18 min.)

Director Karen Kohlhaas and Barefoot Workshops present the fun and fascinating story of entertainer, philosopher, gardener, ex-trucker, activist and blues musician Watermelon Slim a.k.a. Bill Homans – a Clarksdale immigrant and enthusiast.***

Sean "Bad" Apple w/special guest MR. JOHNNIE BILLINGTON!

Legendary Delta bluesman "Mr. Johnnie" joins "Bad" Apple.

www.arts.state.ms.us/folklife/artist.php?dirname=billington_johnnie

Sean "Bad" Apple performs live blues with special guest "Mr. Johnnie" Billington (also one of the stars of the evening's feature film).

Complimentary hors d'oeuvres from OXBOW

Courtesy of Oxbow Restaurant (115 Third St.) while they last.

www.facebook.com/pages/Oxbow-Restaurant-and-Catering/139314899463353

The Delta Dies Last (55 min.)

Channel Ziltch owner Conor Coughlin documents his own relocation from big city Chicago to small-town Clarksdale just as the Delta town's annual Juke Joint Festival roars to life.***

Casual, TV screenings of popular movies to enjoy while you drink or dine.

See event program or individual restaurants for listings.

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

national recording artist Slim Fatz

BLUES: Pain Created to Heal Pain (70 min.)

U.S. premiere with introduction / Q&A featuring Earwig Music president Michael Frank. Special guests Mrs. Big Jack Johnson (Angenette Johnson) and bluesman "Mr. Johnnie" Billington. Brazilian produced 1989 documentary featuring Clarksdale and Mississippi-connected bluesmen Big Jack Johnson, "Mr. Johnnie" Billington, Wade Walton, Son Thomas, Honeyboy Edwards, Sunnyland Slim, Louis Myers & Dave Myers, Kansas City Red, Eugene "Sonny Boy Nelson" Powell and Jack Owens & Bud Spires.***

www.earwigmusic.com/

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

Ming Triplett at 7:30pm and Ming Donkey -- you gotta see it! -- at 10:30pm. (NOTE: Film fest program incorrectly states that Ming plays on Sat night; he actually plays Fri night!)

Land (53 min.)

Clarksdale-born director/actor Will Goss puts a contemporary spin on the age-old tale of the "deal at the Crossroads" -- substituting a greedy Delta farmer for the usual shortsighted Delta bluesman. Filmed around Coahoma County using a local cast.***

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

Slim Fatz

NOTE:

Clarksdale Film Festival schedule subject to change. Film festival tickets valid for Delta Cinemas and History Bus Tours only. Nighttime music venues have separate cover charges.

Casual, TV screenings of popular movies to enjoy while you drink or dine.

See event program or individual restaurants for listings.

*** Three asterisks in a row indicate special guests!

Look for three asterisks (***) in a row after many of the films listed below. This indicates that filmmakers, actors or representatives are planning to attend.

FILM FESTIVAL TICKETS

• $5 per day or $10 weekend pass (Thurs-Sun, Jan 26-29, 2012). • On sale at Delta Cinema during festival. • Festival merchandise sales (hats and long sleeve tees).

Barefoot Workshops: Clarksdale Retrospective, Part II

11AM-12:30pm (approx.) - "Best of" selection of award-winning film shorts shot over the past half decade in Clarksdale and vicinity highlighting notable residents, businesses, blues music and history.

www.barefootworkshops.org

Casual, TV screenings of popular movies to enjoy while you drink or dine.

See event program or individual restaurants for listings.

Dedan le Sud de la Louisiane (In the South of Louisiana) (45 min.)

A Southern music movie classic by French filmmaker de Jean-Pierre Bruneau featuring a beautifully shot, travelogue study of Cajun music and culture, circa 1974.

with Historian Robert Birdsong.

Historian Robert Birdsong takes you on a fascinating film, music, literary & theater bus tour of Clarksdale. (First come, first serve.) Wait for bus at Delta Cinemas, 11:45am.

Surfing a 300-Mile Long Wave (45 min.)

The story of a 300-mile long canoe adventure from Memphis to Vicksburg riding the crest of the Great Flood of 2011 with Clarksdale-based guide John Ruskey, writer W. Hodding Carter and photographer Christopher LaMarca. An unforgettable voyage down the main channel, down the back channels and through the flooded fields and forests of the Lower Mississippi River Floodplain. Written and narrated by Ruskey, and featuring music from his "Riverman" CD.***

www.island63.com

Mississippi film shorts: a collection

Talented up-and-coming filmmakers share a variety Mississippi-connected short films.

- THE NEW ROXY (6 min.) - Mini doc on the New Roxy Theater by Clarksdale's Leonette Henderson.*** - THE BEST DAY (17 min.) - Sci-fi/horror short by Coop Cooper; 1st narrative short filmed in Clarksdale, MS by locals.*** - ILLUMINATION (22 min.) - Sci-fi, drama about a man on a journey towards redemption by Michael Williams.*** - THE FALL OF HENRY (22 min.) - Exploration of one bad night from two perspectives by Mississippi's Glenn Payne.***

Barefoot Workshops: Mississippi Delta, Sept. 2011 docs (54 min.)

Drawing on a Dream (on musician/painter Duff Dorrough), Music is Life (on music teacher Alberta Jones), Just Monkey (on Po Monkey's Lounge & folk artist Larry Grimes).

with Historian Robert Birdsong.

Historian Robert Birdsong takes you on a fascinating film, music, literary & theater bus tour of Clarksdale. (First come, first serve.) Wait for bus at Delta Cinemas, 1:15pm.

Six Generations of Blues: From Mississippi to Chicago (90 min.)

Michael Frank (Earwig Music) presents interviews and performances by Honeyboy Edwards, John Primer, Aron Burton, Johnny Drummer, Dave Spector, H-Bomb Ferguson, Sunnyland Slim, Bob Corritore and others... plus Clarksdale's own legendary oil man Big Jack Johnson with Terry "Big T" Williams and Lee Williams.***

www.earwigmusic.com/

Mississippi film shorts: a collection

Talented up-and-coming filmmakers share a variety Mississippi-connected short films.

- GYPSY HEART (22 min.) - Tale of a traveler and his troubled hitchhiker by Mississippi's Daniel Lee Perea.*** - WOLF CALL (16 min.) - The Emmit Till Mississippi story told from the public record by Rob Underhill.*** - TUPELOVE (16 min.) - Elvis-inflected film by Mississippi-born Mike McCarthy, created for Tupelo Convention & Visitors Bureau.*** - MICKLE'S PICKLE (9 min.) - A tale of love, theft and a pickle in Picayune, Mississippi, by Nathan Willis & William Aughtry.

The Films of the Mississippi Blues Trail (85 min.)

Immaculately-produced film series created for Mississippi's world-famous Blues Trail project. 16 episodes ranging in subject from Muddy Waters to Robert Johnson, from Rabbit Foot Minstrels to Trumpet Records. Directed/produced by Robert Gordon & David Leonard. Cinematography by David Leonard. Edited by Eileen Meyer. Exec. Producers Wanda Clark & Allan Hammons.

www.msbluestrail.org

Where I Begin (78 min.)

(adult language/theme) – Filmed in Oxford, Mississippi area, Where I Begin is the third feature film from award-winning director Thomas L. Phillips. A decade after a tragic event, a man decides to return home to his small southern roots, only to find that the past is not really the past and that people may change but they never forget. His unexpected homecoming once again intertwines him with the family, friends and the town he left in his wake.***

whereibeginmovie.com/

Casual, TV screenings of popular movies to enjoy while you drink or dine.

See event program or individual restaurants for listings.

Casual, TV screenings of popular movies to enjoy while you drink or dine.

See event program or individual restaurants for listings.

Best of the Biscuit: King Biscuit 25 Years (66 min.)

Cinematic tribute to one of the world's great blues festivals – the King Biscuit Blues Festival in nearby Helena, Arkansas. Features all-new, live blues performances by Mississippians like Charlie Musselwhite, Pinetop Perkins, Grady Champion, Paul Thorn and other favorites from region. Produced by Clarksdale, Mississippi's Vincent Productions.***

www.kingbiscuitfestival.com/

25K (80 min.)

(adult language/theme) – Money. Guns. Bad decisions. "The best independent action comedy film about incompetent Mississippi Bail Enforcement Agents you're likely to see this year." Two incompetent bail enforcement agents make consistently awful choices that lead to violent consequences. 1970s, "hicksploitation" style film directed by Billy Chase Goforth; produced by Houston Nutt III, Billy Chase Goforth.***

www.imdb.com/title/tt1848755/

Sean "Bad" Apple one-man blues band

Hill Country and Delta blues by Clarksdale's own...

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Complimentary hors d'oeuvres from OXBOW

Courtesy of Oxbow Restaurant (115 Third St.) while they last.

www.facebook.com/pages/Oxbow-Restaurant-and-Catering/139314899463353

THE HELP (146 min.)

Critically-acclaimed, Golden Globe-winning feature filmed in Clarksdale and Greenwood, Mississippi. Delta filmmaker Coop Coopwood will hold a special Q&A following the film with local extras, location scouts and stand-ins. The Help is the fictionalized account of an aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid's point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis. Directed by Mississippi homeowner Tate Taylor. Starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. (NOTE: Watch for scenes filmed on E. 2nd Street, in the historic Bank Building and at Wong's Foodland in Clarksdale.)***

www.thehelpmovie.com/us/

Casual, TV screenings of popular movies to enjoy while you drink or dine.

Honeyboy (60 min.)

Film festival debut of this newly re-cut music documentary by Scott Taradash (Free Range Pictures). Honeyboy tells the unforgettable story of the last living Delta bluesman of his generation – the now, late-great David "Honeyboy" Edwards – who passed away last summer at age 96. Told through music and interviews, Honeyboy captures more than just an amazing man; it also captures a time and place; it captures a music that will never go away.***

www.honeyboyfilm.com

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

Watermelon Slim 8pm; followed by an encore screening of "Watermelon Slim" film, 9pm

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

national recording artist Slim Fatz

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

Terry "Big T" Williams & Family

Live Music

Rowdy South

Casual, TV screenings of popular movies to enjoy while you drink or dine.

Clarksdale-based bluesman WATERMELON SLIM performs "live" at 8pm. When he takes a break at 9pm, Bluesberry will screen an encore presentation of the Karen Kohlhaus/Barefoot Workshops' film short "Watermelon Slim"!

NOTE:

Clarksdale Film Festival schedule subject to change. Film festival tickets valid for Delta Cinemas and History Bus Tours only. Nighttime music venues have separate cover charges.

FILM FESTIVAL TICKETS

• $5 per day or $10 weekend pass (Thurs-Sun, Jan 26-29, 2012). • On sale at Delta Cinema during festival. • Festival merchandise sales (hats and long sleeve tees).

Mississippi Innocence (60 min.)

A film by Joe York and Media & Documentary Projects at the University of Mississippi. "Every story of a wrongful conviction and exoneration is incredible, but the one in Noxubee County, Mississippi, has got to be one of the best" – John Grisham (author of The Innocent Man).

mississippiinnocencefilm.com/

ENCORE

Honeyboy (60 min.)

Film festival debut of this newly re-cut music documentary by Scott Taradash (Free Range Pictures). Honeyboy tells the unforgettable story of the last living Delta bluesman of his generation – the now, late-great David "Honeyboy" Edwards – who passed away last summer at age 96. Told through music and interviews, Honeyboy captures more than just an amazing man; it also captures a time and place; it captures a music that will never go away.***

www.honeyboyfilm.com

ENCORE

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

Superbad Film Fest Jam

Live Blues Music

Cover charges may apply.

Robert "Bilbo" Walker Blues Revue