"We Didn't Get Famous"
Southern Music and Identity in the 1980s
A Film By Camilla Ann Aikin
Produced for an Independent Study course with Media and Documentary Projects Fall 2011.
A video documentary of the 2010 Blessing of the Fleet in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Residents of "The Seafood Capital of Alabama" gather to hear Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi offer a blessing over the community's fleet and fisherman whose livelihood is imperiled by the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Phat tai"offers a glimpse into the Vietnamese-American shrimping community on the Gulf Coast through the lives of two men, Peter Nguyen and Sau Nguyen. Peter Nguyen accepted the Southern Foodways Alliance's 2010 Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame award on behalf of the Vietnamese-American shrimping community at the SFA's 2010 Symposium. This film was made possible by The Fertel Foundation.
A short Christmas comedy that answers the age old question of how Santa Claus decorates his trees.
Starring
Micah Ginn, Melissa Graves, Matt Minshew, Chris Williams, Ben Harper, and Jim Payne
Produced by
Media and Documentary Projects at the University of Mississippi
Executive Producer
Andy Harper
Produced and Written by
Matt Minshew and Matthew Graves
Production Assistants
Rebecca Batey and Karen Tuttle
Additional Props by
Carl Jensen
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A short film about Victor "Goat" Lafayette, who has picked oysters on Bowens Island, South Carolina, for over fifty years. This short was produced by the UM Media & Documentary Projects Center and the Southern Foodways Alliance in association with the 2011 BB&T Charleston Food + Wine Festival.
A short documentary profile of Bowens Island Restaurant, a low country landmark for over sixty years. This short film was produced by the UM Media & Documentary Projects Center and the Southern Foodways Alliance in association with the 2011 BB&T Charleston Food + Wine Festival.
Every year on the day before Thanksgiving members of the Colleton-Green family of Awendaw, South Carolina, head out to the woods to hunt squirrels for the annual feast. This short film chronicles this tradition. Produced in association with the 2011 BB&T Charleston Food + Wine Festival by the UM Media & Documentary Projects Center and the Southern Foodways Alliance.
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