Memphis Film Festival

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Memphis Film Festival
Topic Started: Apr 4 2008, 01:58 PM (139 Views)
kirgo2	Apr 4 2008, 01:58 PM Post #1
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 217 Group: Members Member #287 Joined: October 4, 2007	Sad news... Mitch Schaperkotter of the Memphis Film Festival has passed on. Here's a nice tribute. http://thebloodshoteye.com/2008/04/04/happ...otter/#more-423



riddlerider	Apr 5 2008, 06:26 AM Post #2
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 799 Group: Members Member #68 Joined: November 26, 2005	I met Mitch at the '74 Western Film Festival, and while not close friends, we enjoyed each other's company and did business together for the next 30 years. I quit going to the Memphis show regularly in the mid or late '80s, but Mitch started coming to the Lone Pine Film Festival in the early '90s and I looked forward to seeing him there every year. Even after his health began failing and diabetes impaired his vision, he joined our group for nightly 16mm screenings in the hotel's hospitality suite. And he was always game for a post-screening cup of coffee and piece of pie at the nearby 24-hour coffee shop. In later years our conversation at those late-night sessions frequently turned to reminiscences of those early Western Film Festivals at Memphis and Nashville. Mitch stopped coming to Lone Pine about three years ago when his accumulating health problems finally made long-distance traveling too difficult. He was a fun guy, a genuine "good ol' boy," and I'll miss him.


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