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That’s A Wrap: Final Thoughts on the Nashville Film Festival
Audience Choice Awards — The Nashville Film Festival announced the winners of the Southwest Airlines Audience Choice Awards in the narrative, documentary, and Graveshift Shift categories. In the narrative category, the winner is “The First Grader,” the inspiring true story of an 84-year old man in Kenya who returns to first grade to learn to read. ...
Live Blog: Day 8
10:39 — And the Winner Is…The various winners of the Nashville Film Festival Awards were announced yesterday. The Audience Choice awards from the festival will be announced at a later date. Here are your winners: Narrative Competition sponsored by Bridgestone Bridgestone Grand Jury Prize — “Weekend” (Andrew Haigh/UK) Bridgestone Competition Honorable Mention — “Last Summer ...
Live Blog: Day 7
10:43 AM — Congratulations to the Nashville Film Festival. Big congratulations go out to Sally Mayne, Brian Owens, Ted Crockett, and all of the folks at the Nashville Film Festival. It was announced that as of yesterday, the film festival has set a new attendance record. That’s amazing because there are still two days to go in the ...
Live Blog: Day 6
10:46 AM — The Nashville Film Festival is entering the home stretch. There are only three days left, but still plenty of good films to see. Last night was a late one. I watched “The Troll Hunter” as part of the festival’s graveyard shift, and didn’t leave the theater until after 11:30. After I got ...
Live Blog: Day 5
2:33 – I was running late today and made it to the theater just in time to sneak in to see “The Red Chapel,”a film about two Danish comedians and their manager who get invited to perform in North Korea by posing as Communist sympathizers. The idea is wacky. The truth is that the manager ...
Live Blog: Day Four
11:39 – I’m back at the theater for a Sunday full of film. It’s hard to imagine that today’s films could top yesterday’s, but we’ll see. The first film I’ll be seeing is “Sing: The Hotel Café Tour Documentary.” According to the Nashville Film Festival program, the film is about some of the artists that ...
Live Blog: Day 3
11:00 AM– Saving People’s Lives At last night’s Q&A with Chely Wright following her film “Wish Me Away,” a young woman stood up and thanked Chely for her courage in coming out. She said that she recently came out to her parents and it did not go too well. In fact, her mother was so ...
Live Blog: Day Two
12:09 – Happy Tax Day! I know, but things will improve. I just got to the theater for a 12:30 showing of the documentary “If a Tree Falls.” This is my first documentary of this year’s festival and I’m looking forward to it. Last night was beautiful weather-wise for opening night. Today, however is not ...
Live Blog: Day One
5:04 – I’m at the theater and things are kind of quiet at the moment. Chairs, tables, etc. are still being set up and the red carpet is ready to go, but empty right now. That will change in just an hour or two. I’ll be seeing two films tonight. The first is called The ...
Opening Night Promises to be a Special Night
The big day is here. It’s finally time for opening night of the 2011 Nashville Film Festival. For the next eight days, I’ll be spending almost every waking hour at the Regal Green Hills Stadium 16 Cinema and I’ll be watching some of the best narrative, documentary, and short films the world has to offer. ...
Nashville Film Festival Offers Music Films for the Music City
Every year, the Nashville film Festival screens musically-oriented films as part of the Music Films/Music City Competition. This year’s competition, which is presented by Lightning 100, features thirteen films that shine the spotlight on a diverse group of artists spanning several different musical genres.
Nashville Film Festival To Feature The Strange, Gross and Bizarre
Once again in 2011, the Nashville Film Festival will provided a temporary home for strange, offensive, gross, and bizarre films. Dubbed the Graveyard Shift and presented during late-night showings, these five films are sure to make you cringe. Bellflower — “Bellflower” follows two friends as they venture out into the world to begin their adult ...
New Directors Competition To Feature Eleven Films
Eleven Films will vie against one another for the New Directors competition at the 2011 Nashville Film Festival. The films represent eight different countries, including the USA, Argentina, Panama, Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Greenland, and the United Kingdom. The eleven films participating in the New Directors competition are: Aardvark — “Aardvark” is perhaps the ...
Nashville Film Festival to Feature Films from Around the World
Sixteen films from around the world will be featured in the World Cinema category at the 2011 Nashville Film Festival. These films are an esoteric sampling of some of the finest cinema the world has to offer. The films being featured are: 13 Assassins (Japan) — Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) has more than ...
Nashville Film Festival Announces Documentary Film Competition
I am a big fan of documentaries. Over the past few years, the Nashville Film Festival has brought some of the very best documentaries being made to Middle Tennessee. I’m sure 2011 will be no exception. Once again in 2011, the Documentary Channel will be sponsoring the documentary competition. This year’s feature-length documentaries include: ...
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