Chattanooga Film Festival: Red is the Color of Beauty (2021)
It’s a retail employee’s nightmare: two women want the same necklace at closing time and no one is taking no for an answer. Jennifer (Stella Baker) and Cheryl (Grace Rex) see the neon hue in the center of that simple jewel and it becomes about more than just a fashion statement. Short, sweet, simple and […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Inch Thick, Knee Deep (2021)
Quinn (Anatasha Blakely, who also directed and wrote this short) is a daydreamer set adrift after losing her soullmate Max (Jacob Sorling). Adrienne (Whitney Morgan Cox) is the woman who may have caught his eye. There’s no way these two are going to get along, right? This may start with mannered conversation but stay with […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: The Angst (2020)
Colin (Bernard David Jones) is being chased throughout the night by something invisible, something terrifying, something that won’t stop. The more that he runs, the more that he learns that confronting his greatest fear may mean confronting himself. Or maybe that really is some kind of demon behind him. Director L. Gustavo Cooper started as a […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Ball Lightning (2021)
Billed as a “film about memory and discovery,” Ball Lightning is about two scavengers — Addie and Sundance — Niamh O’Connor and Julie Helthaler — who harvest the parts of derelict automatons to survive. As they explore a huge and abandoned estate, a place where junk is everywhere and automatons wander around, Addie begins to experience the […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Specter of Weeping Hill (2021)
Lillian (Brianne Solis) comes back to an abandoned and fog-filled cemetery that has haunted her since childhood in an attempt to come to terms with the recent loss of her sister in this quick but gorgeous short film. The directors The Barber Brothers (Matthew and Nathan, who also made Go Back and No One Is Coming with Solis) said […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Love You, Mama (2022)
Director and writer Alexandra Magistro has had some high profile behind the scenes jobs, working as an assistant to Mike Flanagan on Doctor Sleep and Midnight Mass. This is his first directing and writing credit and he tackles a tale filled with darkness, as a woman tries to get past the death of her father. Trust me, […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Found (2022)
Director and writer Jean Grant is enjoying a first directing credit after previously writing A Short Film By Shauna Lee and Birth of a Pomegranate. With help from story consultant Tom Bissell (writer of The Disaster Artist), this is the story of Rowan (Marnee Carpenter), who is searching for her missing girlfriend, who very well may be not […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Destination: Moon (2022)
Inspired by David Boone’s 1980 movie Invasion of the Aluminum People, this shot on Super 8 concerns two would-be astronauts getting ready to be part of the space race as two illuminated glasses-wearing secret men watch on as they sit before the earnest gaze of Bonzo and Reagan. At one point, getting off Earth seemed like […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Exo Sapien (2022)
Cass (Liza Scholtz) is the sole survivor of a ship that has crashed on a much darker version of her Earth. She has no memory of who she is and how she got there, only that she has a device constantly counting down to zero as she’s chased by miscreants, scavengers and something…else. Exo Sapien […]
Venom (2020)
This movie is like one of those places where no cell phone works. There’s no IMDB entry for the movie, one review on Letterboxd and neither he nor actress Danielle Brocklebank* have an IMDB page. Yet somehow, this sixty-minute long movie — which has nothing to do with va-va-Venom, the 1971 movie or 1981 film […]
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