The Nashville Film Festival opens on Thursday, September 29 and runs through October 5 with a diverse menu of cinema, available both in-person and on-line. The Nashville Film Festival is the oldest running film festival in the South (this is the 53rd!) and is an Academy Award qualifying festival. The program includes a mix of indies, docs and international cinema, including world and North American premieres.
The Nashville Film Festival embraces its home in Music City and emphasizes films about music (like last year’s Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road and Fanny: The Right to Rock). That’s the case with the films that open and close this year fest:
- Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, and
- The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile.
See it here first: those opening and closing films, plus Piggy, Meet Me in the Bathroom, Nanny and Aftersun have all secured distribution and will be available to theater and/or watch-at-home audiences. Before just anybody can watch them, you can get your personal preview at the Nashville Film Festival.
I loved covering the 2021 Nashfilmfest in person, with Poser and The Tale of King Crab as my faves. I’ll be covering remotely this year, but that just leaves more pig-forward delicacies from Peg Leg Porker and Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint for you.
Check out the program and buy tickets at the festival’s Film Guide. Watch this space for Nashville Film Festival recommendations (both in-person and on-line) and follow me on Twitter for the latest. I’ll be back in a couple days with my recommendations.
