Festival
Registration Info
Membership Costs:
$60 per individual for the entire three days ($20 per day)
$75 for couples for the entire three days ($25 per day)
Dealer Table Prices:
$120 per aisle table
$140 per wall table
** Dealers will receive 1 free registration with each table rented. There will be a maximum of three free registrations for any dealer. Any additional persons accompanying dealers must pay a registration fee.
Awards Banquet :
Our awards dinner will be beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. This will allow us to keep the dealers' area open through closing time on Saturday. The dinner will be buffet style and will cost $38.00. This will include entertainment provided by the stars in the form of radio play re-creations. There will also be an additional "ole time radio" program recreation done on Friday evening.
The increase in the banquet price from last year's $30.00 is needed to cover the gap between what we are charging and what the hotel is charging us.
You may pay by the day if you're unable to attend the entire 3 days, but it will be cheaper and easier to be pre-registered. We will have your registration packet waiting for you at the registration desk. If you wish to attend the awards dinner on Saturday please include an extra $38.00 to your check. Pre-registration payment can be mailed to:
The Memphis Film Festival
P.O. Box 87
Conway, AR 72033
Hotel InfoThe new home of the Memphis Film Festival is
in Olive Branch, MS
(just 25 miles SE of Memphis)This wonderful new facility offers many new features to our guests:
* Beautifully located 400 acre private property
* Large Dealers' Room
* Unobstructed Screening Rooms
* Private facility for radio shows, panel discussions and the banquet
* Hotel restaurant which offers a breakfast buffet, lunch and dinner
* Wide selection of local fast food and independent restaurants nearby
* Walking trails
* Bike trails
* Tennis courts
* Outdoor pool
* Sauna
* Workout room
Hotel Reservations
When making reservations, be sure to mention you're attending the Memphis Film Festival to get our very special rate - only $84 per night. Rooms MUST be
be booked by May 1st otherwise there is no guarantee that rooms will be
available or that they will go for the announced rate! The "off the street" rate
at the hotel well exceeds $100 !Reservations may be made by calling the hotel at the following numbers:
(662) 895-2941
or you can register online at the hotel's website,
www.wwconferencecenter.com .[PLEASE NOTE: When registering online, please use "filmfestival" as your Group Reference Code to guarantee the $84 special room rate.]
[ALSO PLEASE NOTE: If you experience any problems during the registration process (being told rooms are not available, etc), please refer these problems promptly to Jim Jetton, the hotel's Sales Manager!
If Mr. Jetton is not immediately available, ask for Sue Leutwyler.]
Hotel Directions
The Whispering Wind Hotel is conveniently located just 20 minutes SE of Memphis. They have a airport shuttle from Memphis International Airport.
Traveling instructions from all directions can be found on the hotel's website, www.wwconferencecenter.com . Simply click on the word, "directions", on the top of their home page.
Because there has been some recent road construction near the hotel site, it was beleieved that this additional information (directins and maps) would be helpful for our guests to find the new festival site.--- Directions ---
Whispering Woods Hotel is located back from the northeast corner of Highway 302 and Hacks Cross Road in Olive Branch, Miss. Highway 302 is sometimes referred to as Goodman Road although a section of Goodman is not on 302. There is development going on along Hacks Cross Road as it nears 302 and the hotel is behind the development on the east side of Hacks.
One way to reach the site is to get on Highway 385 which runs from the southeast corner of Interstate 240, the circumferential expressway in Memphis . You exit at Hacks Cross Road and go south. On one or more of the maps below, 385 is called Nonconnah Parkway. That is no longer the name. It is now Bill Morris Parkway but I think 385 is prominantly shown. The Hacks Cross Road-302 intersection is about 5.2 miles south of 385. You turn left on 302 and the entrance to the hotel grounds is about one quarter mile east of the intersection on the north (left) side of 302.
There are other ways to get there.
You can go down Interstate 55 from Memphis and turn left (east) on 302 (Goodman Road) in Southaven. Hacks Cross Road is about 11.5 miles to the east.
Or you could come southeast on U.S. 78 (Lamar) from Interstate 240 in Memphis and then turn east on 302 and travel about 3.5 miles to Hacks Cross.
Below you will find 5 maps that will hopefully help guide you to the new hotel site. The first shows Memphis and the surrounding area (note the hotl site marked with a red star). Each succeeding map pulls further and further out in order to to give you driving instructions.
