{"id":126973,"date":"2023-03-03T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=126973"},"modified":"2023-03-03T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T18:38:09","slug":"oxford-film-festival-will-screen-two-films-at-the-ford-center-friday-march-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-film-festival-will-screen-two-films-at-the-ford-center-friday-march-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Film Festival Will Screen Two Films at The Ford Center Friday, March 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The 20th Annual Oxford Film Festival is screening two films at the Ford Center on the University of Mississippi Campus. <em>The\u00a0Poor and Hungry<\/em>\u00a0will be screening from 3\u20136 pm \u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Crisis<\/em>\u00a0from 6\u20137 pm.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/e\/e6\/ThePoorHungry.jpg\/220px-ThePoorHungry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"272\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The\u00a0Poor and Hungry<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0screened at the first <strong>Oxford Film Festival<\/strong> in 2003. Filmed in 2002,\u00a0<em>The Poor and Hungry<\/em><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0stars <strong>Lindsey Roberts<\/strong> who will be in attendance for a Q&amp;A following the film.\u00a0<em>The Poor and Hungry<\/em>\u00a0is about a Memphis car thief who falls in love with one of his victims, an attractive cellist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>The Crisis<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a 1916 silent film that was filmed in <strong>Vicksburg, Mississippi<\/strong> and produced by <strong>Selig Polyscope Company<\/strong>. Accompanying the film will be a live performance of the original score by local musician <strong>Damein Wash<\/strong> featuring several talented local musicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/silent-film-screening-at-the-ford-center-will-feature-a-live-performance-of-the-film-score-composed-by-oxford-talent-damein-wash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Silent Film Screening at The Ford Center Will Feature a Live Performance of the Film Score Composed by Local Talent Damein Wash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This screening of<em>\u00a0The Crisis<\/em>\u00a0is the first public showing in North Mississippi for over 100 years. Current executives from <strong>Selig Polyscope<\/strong> will be available after the film to answer any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope to see you at the Friday Films at the Ford Center!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20th Annual Oxford Film Festival is screening two films at the Ford Center on the University of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":126974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13391],"tags":[4640,414,137,24501,24349,24500,655,24502],"class_list":["post-126973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-film-festival","tag-damein-wash","tag-ford-center","tag-oxford-film-festival","tag-selig-polyscope-comany","tag-the-crisis","tag-the-poor-and-hungry","tag-university-of-mississippi","tag-vicksburg-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Logo-20th-copy.jpg?fit=1121%2C865&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}