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WEEK IN WOMEN: Melanie Addington redirects from Oxford to Wichita – Brandy McDonnell reports

April 10, 2021April 21, 2021 Brandy McDonnell melanie addington, oxfilm, oxford film festival, tall grass film festival, the week in women, twiw, wichita

Melanie Addington, longtime executive director of Mississippi’s Oxford Film Festival, has accepted the executive director position at the Tallgrass Film Festival in Wichita, Kansas. Under Addington’s guidance, Oxford Film Festival became one of the first film festivals in the country to offer in-person screenings and successfully rolled out a new branding of the overarching organization as “OxFilm,” reflecting its growth as a year-round entity with programs the local filmmaking community and film fans have embraced

Spotlight

SPOTLIGHT July 2020: Melanie Addington, Oxford Film Festival Director, Filmmaker, Film Activist

July 2, 2020 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments kim voynar, melanie addington, oxford film festival, spotlight

Melanie Addington is an unstoppable cinema activist and advocate. As festival director and programmer, she’s constantly and tirelessly pushing for positive change — for diversity and inclusion, better representation of marginalized people, and filmmaking that tells stories of various regions and cultures that enrich our American life. She’s an iconic filmenista who illuminates the way for indie filmmakers and she truly deserves to be in AWFJ’s SPOTLIGHT..

Reviews

FROM BAGHDAD TO THE BAY (OXFF2020) – Review by Diane Carson

April 3, 2020April 3, 2020 Diane Carson 0 Comments documentaries, erin palmquist, from baghdad to the bay, Ghazwan Alsharif, OXFF2020, oxford film festival

Documentary director Erin Palmquist’s From Baghdad to the Bay takes the viewer on a roller coaster ride, following Ghazwan Alsharif from Baghdad to San Francisco, as the title accurately announces. With apologies to Charles Dickens, this modern-day tale of two cities does encompass the best of times and the worst of times for Alsharif.

Guest Posts

QuARTSantine: OXFF and other FFs and the PandemONIUMic – Melanie Addington (Guest Post)

March 31, 2020July 2, 2020 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments covid-19 pandemic, film festival alliance, melanie lynn addington, oxford film festival

It feels like March 12 was years ago now. That was the day the Governor of Mississippi limited any events that assembled 250 people or more. It was 6 days before our 2020 Oxford Film Festival was supposed to happen. And then it wasn’t happening anymore. That felt like the end of the world at the time. But since then, the film festival community has worked nonstop to rally as more than 170 film festivals scheduled for the spring and summer have had to cancel, postpone or go online. On March 27, eighty-one film festivals joined the Film Festival Alliance conference call to talk best practices and strategy moving forward.

Reviews

IN FLOWERS THROUGH SPACE (OXFF2020) – Review by Diane Carson

March 28, 2020March 29, 2020 Diane Carson 0 Comments Dennis Cahlo, documentaries, E. Scott Lindner, Fibonacci sequence, in flowers through space, OXFF2020, oxford film festival

For anyone not conversant with the Fibonacci sequence, and that certainly includes me, In Flowers Through Space is an educational, cerebral and auditory experience that asks for one simple indulgence: abandon conventional, unadventurous ideas about music for at least its sixty-six minutes.