A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend and do podcast coverage at the 50th Nashville Film Festival. While there, I interviewed a number of filmmakers and filled an entire notebook with observations about the various films and events I attended.

My Nashville Film Festival podcast coverage began with this interview I did with some of the filmmakers behind Lost Bayou. More filmmaker interviews are coming soon.

Here, I'll recap some of the notable films and experiences I had at the festival and share some of the things I learned while attending. The filmmakers, musicians, and creative people who I aim to serve with this podcast are those who seek truth and care about exploring big ideas, and so I will strive for both, as I've done with other festivals I've covered.

The first pass at my podcast commentary of Nashville Film Festival came in close to three hours, so I've broken it up into three parts.

Part I includes

• General observations and strengths of the festival
• Music insights from a few panels and films
• Reactions to Marriage Story, the new Noah Baumbach film; Speed of Life, a narrative film in which the death of David Bowie causes a disruption to the space-time continuum that threatens the romance of a young couple; and Chuck Berry, the documentary about the founding father of rock n roll that premiered at the festival.

This is Part II, the meat of the coverage, where I go through a number of feature films I saw at the festival and discuss what worked for me and what didn't. Some of the related topics that come up include doing the right thing in spite of social pressure, police brutality on screen, gender identity issues, and more.

In Part III, I will share my top five films from Nashville Film Festival and why I picked them. Part II and III will get added to this page in a couple of days. Subscribe to the podcast to get the new episodes as they become available.

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Mystery Loves Company music video

We got to explore all kinds of places in Houston while making this music video I directed for the chamber-rock band Mystery Loves Company. Not long after the video was released, the band got an opportunity to perform at a few venues in France.

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Related Episodes

A number of the films that screened at Nashville Film Festival this year also screened at SXSW 2019. Episodes from my SXSW 2019 podcast coverage are here.

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• Nashville Film Festival
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Additional music for the show provided by Rob Costlow.

Films Discussed

• III
• Appalachian Holler
• Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore
• Eternal Winter
• Five Women in the End
• A Hidden Life
• The Kill Team
• Manuel
• Mickey and the Bear
• The Planters
• Reckoning
• The Sheriff of Mars
• The Short History of a Long Road
• Stuffed
• The Thin Red Line
• Tuscaloosa
• The Way you Look Tonight

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