Our Company

Last Bite Films is an independent film production company based in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded by Molly J. Wexler in 2018, the company’s first production was The Little Tea Shop, a short documentary about the 100-year history of Memphis’s oldest restaurant. The film also highlights the story of Suhair Lauck, the Palestinian immigrant who owned and operated the restaurant. The Little Tea Shop screened at 20 film festivals, including in two Oscar qualifying, and is regularly broadcast on Memphis’ PBS affiliate, WKNO.

In late 2020, Last Bite Films was commissioned to produce a broadcast-length documentary on the renovation and revitalization of Tom Lee Park in downtown Memphis. Tom Lee Park: A Riverfront For Everyone was a three year project that was completed in 2023. Meanwhile, the team began developing Shine On: The Story of Tom Lee, a short narrative retelling of the true story of Tom Lee - a Black man who, in 1925, heroically saved 32 white passengers from a sinking steamboat on the Mississippi River.

Shine On, which was done in consultation with the National Civil Rights Museum, was completed in the spring of 2025. After a limited run on WKNO, the film is now being incorporated into school curricula and will be shown at the Memphis Brooks Museum, with Memphis River Parks, and at film festivals around the world.

Current projects include Come On, Boy, a short film about finding your voice in a world full of transitions; and Colour Revolt: Brought to Life, a feature-length documentary about the influential indie-rock band, Colour Revolt.