Memphis is wild at heart. He lives on the edge, pursuing his dreams with grit. But as a young man with cerebral palsy, living without government support, Memphis feels stuck. Saddled with their own baggage, Memphis' parents waver between supporting his desire for independence and pushing him towards a more pragmatic reality. Seneca, his best friend, struggles to reconcile her own big ambitions with her small town life – and her relationship with Memphis. Shot over five years, debut director David Zucker's Your Friend, Memphis is an intimate portrait of Memphis' dogged determination: to bridge the distance between the world's expectations and his own aspirations, no matter what.

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Showing: Tue, Oct 4th, 6:00 PM @ Belcourt Theater

Runtime: 93 minutes

Director: David Zucker
Producer: Ben Edelman, Luke Terrell
Executive Producer: Susan Bedusa, Douglas Tirola, Hallee Adelman, Ivy Herman, Ben Schwartz, Matt Burke
Cast: Memphis DiAngelis, Edoardo DiAngelis, Christine Blacklock, Seneca Mick
Cinematographer: David Zucker
Editor: David Zucker, Jody McVeigh-Schultz, Darrin Navarro, ACE
Composer: Saul Simon MacWilliams, Billy Libby
Sound Design: Jacob Misrach-Bloomfield, MPSE, Greg Francis

This video is brought to you by Storic Media, and is part of the NashFilm Podcast Series. The "NashFilm Podcast Series" is a series of podcasts featuring filmmakers featured at the 2022 Nashville Film Festival. This series of interviews will feature all nine films in the festival in the documentary features category: Butterfly in the Sky, Carol & Johnny, Your Friend Memphis, Relative, Outta the Muck, Calendar Girls, Still Working 9 to 5, My Name is Andrea and In the Bones. The podcast series will also feature select filmmakers from the narrative features and music documentaries categories as well as an interview with a primary sponsor of this year's festival: PickleJar.

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