IT'S OSCAR TIME!!!
It's Oscar time this Sunday -- and in honor of the Academy Awards and this year's bumper crop of amazing pictures, we invited some of Mississippi's most talented production gurus to be on the show. We also talked a little business, too. Featured in today's DeltaTalk show are (in order of appearance):
Tommy Green
Community Development Foundation
The Community Development Foundation's newest Vice President (Chamber of Commerce). In a short telephone interview, we talked to Tommy about the success of this year's "Business to Business Connection" at the BancorpSouth Arena.
Daniel Odom
DBO Animation
Daniel -- who lives and works in Starkville, Mississippi -- is a premier animator. He uses high end software to do the kind of corporate animation work being done in much larger cities. His work rivals that of animators anywhere, including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
Pat Rasberry
Tupelo Film Commission
Pat's the head of the Tupelo Film Commission, the key organizer behind the Tupelo Film Festival in mid-May this year. She knows every key filmmaker and agency in the state, and then some! No one's working harder to build the film community in North Mississippi than Pat Rasberry. She is perhaps the best "connector" there is, connecting people, projects, and resources (and recognition for them all).
Ward Emling
Director, Mississippi Film Office
An accomplished actor (Ward's appeared in such series as St. Elsewhere, Knot's Landing, Matlock, Matt Houston, and in many feature films), he's shepherded film projects in Mississippi since 1990. Since returning to the Mississippi Film Office in 1990, Ward has guided the in-state productions of THE GUN IN BETTY LOU'S HANDBAG, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN, SISTER ISLAND, A TIME TO KILL, THE CHAMBER, GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI, MY DOG SKIP, COOKIE'S FORTUNE, RED DIRT, THE RISING PLACE, O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?, JOHN JOHN IN THE SKY, THE PONDER HEART, BIG BAD LOVE, WALK THE LINE, and BALLAST, in addition to several short films, documentaries, and commercials.
Anne Palmer
Owner/Producer, PalmTree Productions
Perhaps Tupelo's most accomplished -- if not prolific -- producer. She's worked with Toyota, Coke, Atmos Energy, The Community Development Foundation, Tupelo Public School District, and many more companies and institutions. Anne says she "wears a lot of hats. I'm the bookkeeper, videographer, editor and plumber!" Sixteen years of working in the corporate world has helped her bring a lot to the table for her clients. "More and more, customers come to me to create a video-and we end up talking about sales strategies and the many ways that their video can be packaged to reach a target market-whether that's on a thumb drive, DVD, Blu-ray, web video or any number of other formats. The digital age we live in is so exciting. The tools are available to us-we are only limited by our imaginations!"
James Hull
Multimedia Consultant
A writer at heart, James Hull is another of Mississippi's most accomplished media professionals. A graduate of Ole Miss, he's worked in virtually all forms of media for 30-plus years -- an award-winning writer, political consultant, producer/director, media relations professional, and communications advisor.
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