Press Play Jackson

If you're an emerging or established journalist, documentary filmmaker, media student, newsroom/media org leader, nonfiction creator, or creative of any kind who cares about informing and inspiring audiences, Press Play is for you.

If you're not a media maker but care about (and love) true stories, please join us for the evening community screening — and bring your friends!

Press Play is for and by the media makers of Jackson. Let's celebrate this city, forge new connections, and have solutions-focused conversations that push us farther, together.

Friday, September 12th! Media makers, join us all day (and night). Community members, friends, and family, please join us for the evening community screening and after party. 🎉

The national Press Play tour is run by local-first global nonprofit Video Consortium (that's us!). Press Play Jackson is presented in partnership with Deep South Today and Mississippi Today. Millsaps College, Jackson State University, Hinds Community College, Southern Documentary Project, and Red Squared are our community partners.

Press Play is made possible by Knight Foundation, in addition to Sony and Rode.

🎧 Attendees, get ready for a raffle of superb Rode audio gear!

Come alone, with a colleague, or with a friend. Everyone who's attending will have their own skillset and perspective, but what we all share is a desire to use media for good — to share true stories that wake people up, to inform the public, and to inspire audiences.

We'll highlight what's working and what's changing across the media landscape while focusing heavily on video and innovation.

Come ready to have honest, collaborative, and solutions-focused conversations (and an empty stomach, as there will be great food).

Any follow up questions? Holler at us here.

• 2:00pm doors open: idea wall + coffee & tea from Urban Foxes 
   
• 3:00pm doors close, program begins: intention setting and intros
   
• 3:30pm panel conversation: how we’re telling Mississippi stories through different approaches, while strengthening & supporting the local media ecosystem
   
• 4:15pm breakout community convos: what’s working/not working in local scene
   
• 5:00pm convene in larger room for sharing what we learned in the breakout sessions 
   
• 5:30pm connecting: cont. discussion from breakouts/sharing & dinner catered by Eddie Wright BBQ
  + we'll select the winners of the Rode mic raffle!
   
• 6:30pm local shorts screening + Q&A
  Center for MS Food Systems | Mississippi Gulf Coast (dir. Roderick Red)
  Shaped by Clay (dir. Olivia Whittington, Samson Oklobia, Will Harbison)
  Our Rebellious Hearts (dir. Talamieka Brice)
  The Bulletin, excerpt (dir. Michael Guidry, Richard Lake)
   
• 8:00pm after party gathering, continued connecting over drinks at Fertile Ground 
  *attendees each get 1 drink ticket to use at the brewery