Category: Chattanooga Film Fest

In the video game Fatal Frame, you are Miku Hinasaki, a young woman with a sixth sense for the spectral. Her brother, Mafuyu, has gone missing while investigating the infamous Himuro Mansion. It’s a place so steeped in bad vibes and urban legend that the locals won’t even talk about it. Miku heads into the […]

Edward Shimborske IV—making his feature debut at the ripe age of 24—definitely brings the ambition with On Gallows Hill. Matthew (Rohan Maletira) was a regular college kid until a rough night in New York City and a fight with a bouncer ends with him being dumped in an alley in the worst neighborhood in the […]

Directed by Madeleine Hicks, this is the story of Elaine (Clara Vance). She’s teetering on the edge of thirty, living in a world that’s suffocating under the weight of total environmental collapse. More than right now, that is. Oxygen is a luxury, and humanity is dying. The government solution is a medical procedure that repurposes […]

Giuseppe is a man defined by the intensity of his fleeting obsessions. One week, he is completely consumed by embroidery; the next, he is tracking bugs for a private investigation. He lives a life of manic, rapid-fire shifts in identity and interest. He is a man who cannot stay still, a human whirlwind of hobbies […]

In Jacob Perrett’s Photo Negative, we dive headfirst into the grind of Jen (Karlee Mayfield), a struggling forensic photographer desperate for a lifeline. That lifeline appears in the form of a wealthy, enigmatic couple, Arthur (Taylor Rhoades) and Madison (Casey Notarianni). The premise is a classic cautionary tale: when a job offer seems too good […]

If you grew up watching MTV when they actually played music videos, you might remember a strange, hyper-kinetic show called Buzz that aired 13 episodes in 1990. It was called Buzz, and chances are, you didn’t see it. But you may have seen what came out of it. Mark Pellington’s new documentary, This Is Buzz, […]

When a movie starts with a line like “Family is forever,” you know you’re about to watch a family get absolutely decimated. Directed by James Kondelik, Pitfall is a gritty, backwoods survival-horror mixed with dysfunctional-family drama.  The Williams family—patriarch Drew (Grant Vlahovic), mother Loraine (Teresa Laverty) and their adult kids, Scott (Marshall Williams) and Ashley […]