{"id":64001,"date":"2019-01-15T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T23:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=64001"},"modified":"2019-01-15T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T22:49:46","slug":"the-southern-foodways-alliance-and-oxford-film-festival-partner-for-a-special-monday-movie-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-southern-foodways-alliance-and-oxford-film-festival-partner-for-a-special-monday-movie-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Southern Foodways Alliance and Oxford Film Festival Partner for a Special Monday Movie Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oxford Film Festival<\/strong> and Southern Foodways Alliance<\/strong> will partner along with Burns Belfry<\/strong> and Lens Collective<\/strong> to host a special movie screening and panel discussion on Martin Luther King Jr Day<\/strong> (January 21) following the MLK Day Breakfast<\/strong>. Starting at 10 am at the Burns Belfry Church<\/strong> (710 Jackson Avenue), the series of short films provided for free to the community will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bright at Night<\/em><\/strong> -The Hollowell family<\/strong> has been in Mississippi\u2019s Hill Country<\/strong> for 100 years. The Sunday evening experience at Foxfire<\/strong> serves up a slice of life in Marshall County<\/strong>, Mississippi, where\nculinary and musical traditions have always been closely interwoven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Counter Histories Jackson<\/em><\/strong> -In this piece we hear from Colia Clark<\/strong>, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland<\/strong>, Bill Minor<\/strong>, Daphne Chamberlain<\/strong>, and Reverend Ed King<\/strong> about the historic sit-in at the 1963 Woolworth\u2019s lunch counter in Jackson<\/strong>, Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Country Platter<\/em><\/strong> –Jimmy Williams<\/strong> has been the owner of Country Platter<\/strong> in Cleveland<\/strong>,\nMississippi since 1994. In its history, Country Platter was previously Lilley\u2019s Soul Food Cafe<\/strong>, a meeting\nplace during the Civil Rights Movement for many influential figures including\nDr. Martin Lather King Jr., Ralph\nAbernathy<\/strong>, and Amzie Moore<\/strong>.\nToday, Williams works to give back to his community, remembering his past to\ninfluence his present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delta Dreams<\/em><\/strong> \u2013A look at the music of the Delta<\/strong> and the new GRAMMY Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faith, Hope, &\nInspiration<\/em><\/strong> -Members\nof the Clarksdale<\/strong>, Mississippi\ncommunity reflect on the influence of Dr. Martin Luther King\u2019s visit to First\nBaptist Church during their civil rights struggles in the 1950s and 60s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otha Turner<\/em><\/strong> -In the late 1950s, fife and drum\nlegend Otha Turner<\/strong> began hosting\nannual Labor Day picnics at his property in Gravel Springs<\/strong>, Mississippi. Turner would butcher and roast goat,\npork, and fish, drawing neighbors with the smell of his cooking and the sounds\nof his fife and drum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signs<\/em><\/strong> -A short documentary examines the ongoing vandalism of signs marking Emmett Till<\/strong>\u2019s brutal murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vishwesh Bhatt: The\nSouth I Love<\/em><\/strong> –Vishwesh Bhatt<\/strong> is a Southern chef using\nflavors from his childhood to add to the lexicon of Southern Food. A short film\nby SFA summer documentary intern Nicole\nDu Bois.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\nfull-length trailer of the upcoming Oxford Film Festival will also be played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je\u2019Monda Roy<\/strong>, University of Mississippi<\/strong> MFA student, will serve as Q&A\nfacilitator with special guests including filmmakers and subjects of the films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oxford\nFilm Festival was founded in 2003 to bring exciting, new and unusual films (and\nthe people who create them) to North Mississippi. The annual five-day festival screens\nshort and feature-length films in both showcase and competition settings,\nincluding narrative and documentary features and shorts; Mississippi\nnarratives, documentaries and music videos, and narrative, documentary,\nanimated and experimental shorts. The festival is a 501c3 not-for- profit organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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