Documentary : The Little Tea Shop

Memphis filmmaker Molly Wexler has completed her documentary short The Little Tea Shop, profiling the downtown restaurant and its proprietor, Suhair Lauck. Molly included interviews with Matt, who became a regular at the Tea Shop when reporting Interstate 69. You can hear his voice at the beginning and end of the trailer below. According to the Memphis Flyer :

Then there are people like Matt Dellinger, author of Interstate 69, a book about the history of the highway. “He’s a really engaging guy from Brooklyn who we interviewed because we wanted someone who wasn’t from Memphis.”

Dellinger’s story with Lauck is “incredible,” Wexler says. “About 10 years ago he was down in Memphis doing research for a book he was writing and he stumbled into The Little Tea Shop. He wasn’t feeling well. And the way Suhair and some of the other people took care of him, he made life-long bonds with people from here. Because of The Little Tea Shop.”

The Little Tea Shop will premiere at 7:30 p.m. July 10th, 3:30 p.m. July 11th, and noon on July 12th on WKNO-TV.