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Our team
Founder and Owner
Anthony Thaxton
ANTHONY THAXTON has won awards as a television director, painter, educator, photographer, writer, musician, and filmmaker (including a Southeast EMMY Award). He is a founding partner in the Institute for Southern Storytelling at Mississippi College (where he was named the 2019 Distinguished Art Alumnus of the Year). He lovingly writes, produces, directs, and edits programming about the south.
Won Southeast EMMY Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary (Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of The Islander) and was nominated for Best Editor and Best Director.
Walter Anderson film aired nationwide on PBS stations and companion book was a bestseller and is in its second printing.
Produced/Directed/Edited/Filmed five seasons of Palate to Palette, a popular series on Mississippi Public Broadcasting featuring Robert St. John and Wyatt Waters.
Directed Morgan Freeman on an educational film used by the Mississippi Department of Education (wrote the script and directed Freeman in his home).
Directed Dolly Parton, Brooke Shields, Kathy Lee Gifford and others on a PSA commercial shoot for the Mississippi Department of Education.
Video packages used on CNN, Good Morning America, and Fox & Friends.
Award-winning educator teaching video production, art, and graphic design to Middle School, High School and College students (Teacher of the Year numerous times, Outstanding Educator Award, Sally Mae First Year Teaching Award).
Artwork and writing featured in regional and national magazines, including Charles Stanley’s In Touch Magazine.
Produced/Directed (with Robert St. John) Mac McAnally concert film shown on Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
Owns Thaxton Studios, a 30-year production company whose jobs include numerous corporate, government, educational, inspirational, political, commercial, and short film projects (including shows featuring his own skills as a painter and illustrator).
Currently in production of Yonderlust (a series with Robert St John about a southerner touring the world and realizing we are all basically the same when we gather around the table).
Also in post production of Eudora (a documentary on the life of the acclaimed Southern author from Jackson, Mississippi).
Loves spending time with his beautiful wife, Amy, and his gifted children, Bryant and Sydney.
Lives in Raymond, Mississippi.
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Executive Vice President and Manager
Amy Bryant Thaxton
Amy Bryant Thaxton serves as the Executive Vice President and is the glue that holds our organization together. Her management facilitates the output and production.
Amy graduated as valedictorian in high school and with high honors (and numerous awards) from Mississippi College. She was a very popular teacher for many years on the middle school, high school, and college levels.
Amy is currently serving as Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Storytelling at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. In this role, she is coordinating and championing the film/video productions of Anthony Thaxton and Robert St. John through the institute with the collaboration of MC students and faculty. Though recently only started, the Institute has tremendous plans for telling positive and inspirational Southern stories through film, television, publishing and streaming platforms.
Amy is the mother of Bryant and Sydney, two wonderful children who also pitch in on various Thaxton Studios productions.
Amy’s gifts in writing and background in literature is a vital component of our latest production, a major documentary on the life of Mississippi treasure, Eudora Welty. Amy is co-producing the film and is writing the companion book slated for a 2024 release.
MUSICAL DIRECTOR / EDITOR
Bryant C. Thaxton
Bryant C. Thaxton is a musical prodigy who graduated from Mississippi College with a degree in Music (and a minor in Graphic Design).
Bryant won a Southeast EMMY Award for Musical Composition for his critically-acclaimed soundtrack composition of Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander.
Bryant has written music since his sophomore year of high school and has seen his work included in various television shows and productions including the theme for Palate to Palette (on Mississippi Public Broadcasting), The Hour, and various films for museums.
Currently, Bryant is composing/recording/engineering the soundtrack for the upcoming film on writer Eudora Welty.
He also is developing an innovative new educational gaming component to the work of the Institute for Southern Storytelling at Mississippi College.
He adds great value to the team and brings harmony to all we do.
WRITER / ACTRESS
Sydney Thaxton
Sydney Thaxton is an award-winning actress who wrote her first book in fourth grade.
Currently a student at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Mississippi, Sydney is deeply involved in the Theatre program where she’s delivered great performances in many various roles (including Doc in West Side Story and Blythe, a main character in the stunning premiere of a new one-act play, We Shall By Morning, by Kerri Sanders).
Sydney hosted an anthology series called Mississippi Memories and is currently in pre-production of a fun new art series with her father called Drawn South where the two explore various techniques through the lens of where they live.
Sydney has won numerous academic awards and is poised to help with the development of the film production side of the Institute for Southern Storytelling at Mississippi College while attending the Honors College at MC.