A trio of documentaries with strong ties to Tennessee will screen at this year's Nashville Film Festival.
Frampton, which chronicles Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and longtime Nashville resident Peter Frampton, will screen Sept. 24, the festival's opening night. Frampton and director Rob Arthur will be in attendance for a post-screening discussion.
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Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentarian Sam Pollard will also participate in a post-screening discussion for his new film The Lorraine, a historical account of Memphis' famed Lorraine Motel. Pollard and co-writer Alvin D. Hall (who will also be in attendance) set out to reclaim the venue's status as "a rare Black-owned sanctuary during Jim Crow, a center of entrepreneurship, music and Civil Rights organizing" — a legacy that was overshadowed following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the property.
Little Hollywood, Tennessee is an inside look at the Governor’s School for the Arts, an annual state-funded summer program in which 24 high school students from across Tennessee are selected for intensive three-week programs in theater, dance, visual arts, music and filmmaking. Little Hollywood focuses on a group of students in the filmmaking program.
"We have an incredible lineup coming together this year, with films from all over the world," NaFF programming director Lauren Thelen says in a release. "But we wanted to start by celebrating a few stories with Tennessee roots.”
This year's Nashville Film Festival will run Sept. 24 through 30 with screenings at the National Museum of African American Music, the Belcourt Theatre, Regal Green Hills, new Nashville Yards venue Hooky Entertainment, Soho House and more. Find ticketing information and more details at nashvillefilmfestival.org.
