In addition to our own documentary work and working with student filmmakers, the Media and Documentary Projects Center helps produce and record campus events.  October has been an especially busy month (and we haven’t even gotten to the Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium yet!).

Above: Matthew Graves tests out the system in advance of the M-Club Hall of Fame Ceremony and Andy Harper shoots the SFA Viking Range lecture featuring Warren Belasco.  Below: Micah Ginn sets up the switcher for the Alumni Hall of Fame, and Karen Tuttle helps shoot the Overby Center event honoring member of the 1959 National Championship football team.

This video promotes the University of Mississippi’s Master of Arts in Higher Education/Student Personnel Professional Cohort Program.

Those of us at Media & Documentary Projects would like to thank Michael McGuire, Stephanie Mitchell, and Lee Dean of UM Distance Learning for making this video possible. They do amazing work and we are all very thankful for their help.

Experience this amazing promotional video produced by MPD’s Joe York for the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi’s School of Law.

The Mississippi Innocence Project identifies,investigates and litigates meritorious claims of innocence on behalf of Mississippi prisoners serving lengthy periods of incarceration.

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the world premiere of Intruder in the Dust and the Media and Documentary Projects Center was well represented in the effort to commemorate the milestone.   The event, a fundraiser for the Oxford Film Festival, was held at the recently restored Lyric Theater in the same room where the film first screened in 1949.  MDP producer Joe York had a premiere of his own as his documentary, When We Were Extras was shown prior to the screening of Intruder in the Dust.  Joe interviewed quite a few of the locals who took part in the original production.  Look for his film here on the blog in the coming weeks.  MPD producer Micah Ginn served as the master of ceremonies for the event.  Micah kept the crowd, shall we say, entertained…….

After the movies screened Joe York interviewed Claude Jarman, Jr.  Enjoy this excerpt from that interview (please forgive the shaky iPhone).