CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Bob Morgan’s Just Going to Tell Some Stories (2024)
Bob Morgan — someone I never knew before watching this — is a second-generation Kentucky artist and LGBTQ activist who learned art from his mom and “honed his creative identity under the influence of his mentor and gay dad Henry Faulkner and his gay mom Sweet Evening Breeze.” He may have started as a drag […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Abigail Before Beatrice (2025)
This is my first film at Chattanooga Film Fest 2025, and wow, it’s already a winner. Abigail Before Beatrice defines slow burn, and that’s not a bad thing here. It parcels out the info that you need in just the right way, gradually revealing who people are, what they’ve been through and how—and if—they can […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Crossword (2024)
While many may know him as the lead on the CW series Roswell, New Mexico, Michael Vlamis has always been shooting and writing his own films. This full-length debut, which he also stars in and co-wrote, is something else—something that comes from real pain. As he told Deadline, “I’m interested in exploring the guilt and grief […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024 WRAP UP
Man, what a ride. I made it through 118 movies and shorts in less than a week. My eyes are beat! Seriously, Chattanooga Film Festival is my favorite of all fests and the highlight of my movie watching year. You can check out all of the films on this Letterboxd list or just click on […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: The Wheel of Heaven (2023)
This movie feels like it’s several films all colliding at once, so I feel like I should review it in the same way, taking the many times that I’ve seen parts of it and what I thought as it’s grown into a much larger film. Blood of the Dinosaurs: Once, we went to a Mystery […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Video Vision (2024)
When an old VCR mysteriously shows up at digitizing facility Video Vision, Kibby (Andrea Figliomeni) starts to be affected by it. She’s also in love with a trans man named Gator (Chrystal Peterson) who brought in old VHS tapes of her father’s band destroying computers. But in spite of this new relationship, her body is […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024: CFF Salutes Your Shorts! (TN and Student Filmmakers)
Our festival has grown in ways we never anticipated over the last eleven years and has been blessed with honors from The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World to our recent (and surreal AF) write-up in Money Magazine. But no matter how much we grow or how far we go, we’ll always make a […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024: Funsized Epics Vol. 1
Join CFF as we take a journey into the longer side of short cinema. One of the many joys of presenting our festival in a hybrid format is that it allows us to include so many amazing films that our time limitations during our in-person days wouldn’t allow, and it also gives us the freedom […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024: Funsized Epics Vol. 2
Join CFF as we take a journey into the longer side of short cinema. One of the many joys of presenting our festival in a hybrid format is that it allows us to include so many amazing films that our time limitations during our in-person days wouldn’t allow, and it also gives us the freedom […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #7: Zardoz (1974)
What movie would Sean Connery choose to follow up his run as James Bond with? Well, it’s The Offence, but this was his second movie after. And it’s definitely the first film John Boorman did after Deliverance. What they created was a film that absolutely cannot be easily explained. I’ve watched it in the double digits and […]
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