{"id":148751,"date":"2025-04-28T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=148751"},"modified":"2025-04-28T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:08:22","slug":"lights-camera-mississippi-ole-miss-students-shine-in-inaugural-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/lights-camera-mississippi-ole-miss-students-shine-in-inaugural-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights, Camera, Mississippi: Ole Miss Students Shine in Inaugural Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mississippi Film Society’s debut festival featured a strong showing from Ole Miss filmmakers<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By Jordan Karnbach<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Mississippi Film Society<\/strong>‘s first film festival celebrated creativity from across the state, but the University of Mississippi<\/strong> was all over the credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Stranger Than Fiction Film Festival <\/strong>showcased eight feature-length films, two Mississippi-produced short films, and an introductory workshop. The events were April 12\u201313, 2025, in the historic Capri Theatre<\/strong> in Jackson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programming included a Sunday screening of the short film Jason Bouldin: Corporeal Nature<\/em><\/strong>, directed by Tanner Goodeill<\/strong>, an Ole Miss junior majoring in film production, and Eudora<\/em><\/strong>, a documentary on renowned author and longtime Jackson resident Eudora Welty<\/strong> by Mississippi filmmaker Anthony Thaxton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The festival is sponsored by the Mississippi Film Society, so I thought it would be incomplete without Mississippi voices,” said Ryan Parker<\/strong>, executive director of the Mississippi Film Society. “Mississippi has a rich cinematic legacy, and I’m excited to platform two Mississippi filmmakers that are contributing to it, and who have direct ties to the university.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodeill, from Boerne, Texas, was drawn to the concept of transferring stories from one generation to the next. That interest led him to choose Oxford portrait painter Jason Bouldin as the subject of his 12-minute documentary, an assignment for a documentary class taught by John Rash<\/strong>, UM assistant professor of film production and Southern studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n