Willis Earl Beal stars in new movie, premiering at Venice Film Festival next week

The Venice Film Festival is set to screen Tim Sutton’s Memphis next week on 31 August, with lo-fi avant-garde musician Willis Earl Beal starring in the flick.

Beal plays the eclectic singer/songwriter “working less on his music and more on the stage of his soul”, who spends most of his Memphis days “surrounded by beautiful women, legendary musicians, a stone-cold-hustler, a righteous preacher and a wolf pack of kids.”

Not only does Beal star in the film but he has written and recorded the soundtrack for Memphis as well.

Directed and written by Tim Sutton, the production of Memphis is one of the first films to be funded by the Venice Biennale Cinema College grant. Other than Beal, Sutton creates a cast full of ordinary Memphis natives – only further attributing to the inherent documentary style. It’s sure to be raw, emotion-filled and naturalistic.

Watch the trailer below, via The Dissolve.