The Creative Coast’s blogspot is Savannah’s sounding board for local thinkers, innovators, wanderers and wonderers. Guest bloggers share their thoughts, opinions and creative noodling from all over the map. This week’s blog is from Jae Matthews, major cinephile and M.F.A. student at SCAD. Jae is interning at the Savannah Film Commission and anixously awaits this year’s Savannah Film Festival (October 29 – November 5)!

I like to make lists. It’s more like a compulsion, really. But I’m sure I like it.

I partake in the usual: the “To Do” quality, but often I’ll make option lists with ideas for adventure.  The film festival kinda puts my habit into perspective, and I think I will have to make one each day. Perhaps I will post them.  I’ve made one for you, for now. Here is a list of Exciting Options for the “Pre-Festival” period:

1.) John Akomfrah’s piece, “Mnemosyne,” is showing through November 18 at Pei-Ling Chan gallery on MLK! Akomfrah’s “Mnemosyne” is a condensed telling of his “The Nine Muses,” which looks at mass-migration and diaspora in the Midlands in England. The video, which runs 45 minutes, is quite epic and unusually beautiful combining archival footage and personal footage to create a fascinating diary piece. Akomfrah is also a very captivating creature, who rumors to return for the festival!

The Creative Coast’s blogspot is Savannah’s sounding board for local thinkers, innovators, wanderers and wonderers. Guest bloggers share their thoughts, opinions and creative noodling from all over the map. This week’s blog is from Jae Matthews, major cinephile and M.F.A. student at SCAD.  Jae is interning at the Savannah Film Commission and anixously awaits this year’s Savannah Film Festival  (October 29 – November 5)!

It’s been raining for three days now, and I sit at my window like the proverbial wall-flower waiting for my hunk to get me out of here. But I wait for no man! No sir.

I wait for the 14th Annual Savannah Film Festival to begin, and I still have more than two weeks time to anticipate what the fest will be bringing into town.

To be honest, I’m a little nervous, because this will be my first ever all-inclusive festival experience. Already there seems to be too much for me to see, what with the films, the panels and so many honored guests! I remember seeing a lot of pictures from last year and biding my time as a volunteer, knowing that someday I could experience the splendor of festival extravagance. It seems too soon to have the opportunity to experience it one year later, no closer to the status that I figured I needed to acquire. I’m channeling this energy into nervous tension that, hopefully, will lift in two weeks time.

Hello friends.

A quick note on an otherwise sleepy day in early February.

There are two groups in the region who have come together to bring some magic to our lovely city.

The first group is a weird bunch of kids that want more music in Savannah and they want it right now.

They visited SXSW in 2010 and planted a seed… A huge seed at that.

The concept? 30+ bands will come to Savannah over the course of 4 nights in March (9th – 12th).  They will… um STOPOVER en route to SXSW.  The Stopover gang has a beautiful logo, a great website, and a team of awesome people that are doing their best to change the music scene in Savannah.  We have to support these folks.  Holler at them, join the team, go see the shows, and enjoy your life.

The second group of wildcats is a highly organized cast of characters that have developed a stellar idea themselves.

Here is the concept:

BANDWAGON is a three-day (April 15-17) celebration of the fine art of music + event poster design, with exhibitions, panels, workshops, film screenings, live music and a chance to meet and learn from more than 40 of the industry’s most inspiring artists.

If you are like us, and we know you are, then your days are filled with links, videos, images, and songs.

In an attempt to close out a busy week, with a simple, beautiful message, we offer a few of our recent favorites:

WORDS

BICYCLES

FASTPITCH

BANKSY

Have a great weekend. Be safe. Have fun.

Jake + The Creative Coast Family