Festival Coverage by Andrew Swafford and Jessica Carr
For ten days in May, the Nashville Film Festival screened over 100 feature films from around the world. Established in 1969, it is the longest running film festival in the state. Andrew and Jessica were able to catch six features across three days of the festival.
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Festival Coverage by Zach and Jack Dennis
For four days in April, the Chattanooga Film Festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee brings genre films from around the world to the Scenic City for a schedule filled with world premieres and live events. Zach and his twin brother Jack were able to catch a number of the films shown during the festival.
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Festival Coverage by Andrew Swafford and Michael O'Malley
For four days in March, the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee combined a line-up of avant-garde musical and film acts. Andrew and Michael were able to catch a number of the films shown during the festival, including the 3D programming curated by The Public Cinema.
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Still from "Let Your Light Shine" by Jodie Mack, one of the 3D shorts screened at Big Ears 2018
Festival Coverage by Michael O'Malley
As in previous years, Big Ears 2018 teamed up with The Public Cinema to curate a number of film programs to screen alongside the more traditional musical performances of the festival, but this year, The Public Cinema notably devoted one of its four programs entirely to 3D. Called Stereo Visions, the program consisted of ten different film events of impressive diversity, spanning narrative and avant-garde forms, contemporary and classic time periods, as well as short and feature-length works. It was a wild, sometimes confounding, and often exhilarating experience.
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Festival Coverage by Taylor Thomas and Lydia Creech
For three days in January, Bloomington PRIDE screened 25 short- and feature-length LGBTQ+ films from around the world for its 16th annual Film Festival. Taylor and Lydia were able to catch the films from two of the days, which included 6 features and over a dozen international and student shorts.
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Tragedy Girls was one of the ten feature films screened at the 2017 Knoxville Horror Film Festival.
Personal Essay by Jessica Carr
After the three days were over, I was left with one question. Am I officially a horror fan now?
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