Pat Mitchell Worley, Chris Reyes, Jake Cline (Photos: Michael Donahue)

If you looked around at the Indie Memphis Film Festival Preview Party, you saw somebody who made a movie, starred in a movie, or was thinking about making or starring in a movie.

This year’s event was held September 30th at the new Metal Museum in Overton Park, and featured trailers from films to be screened in this year’s upcoming festival. And there was an open bar.


Jeffrey Stablein,
Amanda Willoughby-Stablein,
Aisha Raison

Geoffrey Brent Shrewsbury,
Marcus Griffin

Jessiah Burnett, Ethan Sanders

Kendal Foster

Kacky Walton, Al Kapone

Zack Wheeler

Ethan Thompson, Chris Vance, Em Joyce Coates, Laura Olive

Bennett Netschi, Berlin Howell,
Brandon Melgar, Elian Gonzalez

This year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival will be held November 5th through 8th with encore screenings November 9th through 10th. 

Michael Donahue began his career in 1975 at the now-defunct Memphis Press-Scimitar and moved to The Commercial Appeal in 1984, where he wrote about food and dining, music, and covered social events until...