Sunflower County Film Academy
Student Films
2024
Film: Whenever You’re Ready
Written By: Glenn Payne (Dead Leaf Productions)
Producers: Glenn Payne and Ben Powell (Broken Arm Studio)
Executive Producer: Monica Land (Fannie Lou Hamer’s America)
Production Crew|Videographers: Sunflower County Film Academy
Festivals: 2025 Magnolia Film Festival; 2025 Oxford Film Festival
Awards: 2024 Best Shorts Competition - Award of Merit - Special Mention
Behind The Scenes of “Whenever You’re Ready” and the 2024 Sunflower County Film Academy. (The film will be posted here after the 2025 film festival season.)
2023
Film: Help Wanted
Written By: Glenn Payne (Dead Leaf Productions)
Producers: Glenn Payne and Ben Powell (Broken Arm Studio)
Executive Producer: Monica Land (Fannie Lou Hamer’s America)
Production Crew|Videographers: Sunflower County Film Academy
Festivals: 2023 Best Shorts Competition; 2024 Magnolia Film Festival; 2024 Oxford Film Festival; 2024 JXN Film Festival (See More)
Awards: 2023 Best Shorts Competition - Award of Merit “Film Short (Student); Award of Merit - “Young Filmmaker - 17 and younger”; Award of Recogntion for Actor Leading (Student) Merion Turner (Read More)
Special Showings: The Magnolia Filming Festival Red Carpet Premiere; Mississippi Indie Film Forum
Watch “Help Wanted” and our Behind The Scenes of the film and the 2023 Sunflower County Film Academy Workshop.
Film: An Army Rising Up
Producers: Dr, Pablo Correa, Robert “RJ” Fitzpatrick, Dr. Brian Graves, Kyle Jones
Academic Consultant: Davis W. Houck
Executive Producer: Monica Land (Fannie Lou Hamer’s America)
Production Crew|Videographers: Sunflower County Film Academy
Festivals: 2023 Oxford Film Festival; 2022 Sarasota Film Festival
Watch “An Army Rising Up”.
2021
2018
Film: Find Your Voice
Producers: Joy Davenport, Pablo Correa and Robert “RJ” Fitzpatrick
Executive Producer: Monica Land (Fannie Lou Hamer’s America)
Production Crew|Videographers: Sunflower County Film Academy
Film Festivals: 2019 Crossroads Film Festival
Watch “Find Your Voice” and the Behind The Scenes video!
The first short video, “Out of Many” written by the students of our inaugural Sunflower County Film Academy in 2018.