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Can’t wait to see this film on the big screen tomorrow night! Join us and @ilensvandy for a free community screening of REMAINING NATIVE on Tues night at 7pm at Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Cinema. Stick around for a post-screening discussion with the film’s director, Paige Bethmann! Winner of the Documentary Feature Special Jury Award and Audience Award at @sxsw, REMAINING NATIVE is also an official recommendation on the 2026 @thepopcornlist — an annual survey of acclaimed feature films not yet available in wide release, recommended by film festival programmers across North America. This event is free to attend, no RSVP required. See you there!
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Can’t wait to see this film on the big screen tomorrow night! Join us and @ilensvandy for a free community screening of REMAINING NATIVE on Tues night at 7pm at Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Cinema. Stick around for a post-screening discussion with the film’s director, Paige Bethmann! Winner of the Documentary Feature Special Jury Award and Audience Award at @sxsw, REMAINING NATIVE is also an official recommendation on the 2026 @thepopcornlist — an annual survey of acclaimed feature films not yet available in wide release, recommended by film festival programmers across North America. This event is free to attend, no RSVP required. See you there!
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This week for our #BlackFilmmakersInFocus series, we’re excited to spotlight Titus Kaphar, writer and director of EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, awarded Best New Directors Feature at #NashFilm55. Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming traditional styles and mediums. Through formal innovation, his work emphasizes the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves, seeking to dislodge history from its status as the “past” and reveal its contemporary relevance. Kaphar approaches filmmaking as an extension of his studio practice, expanding existing bodies of painting and sculpture through film. His semi-autobiographical feature film debut, EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, follows a Black artist whose path to success is disrupted by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, with Kaphar’s own paintings featured throughout the film. EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS is now streaming on Hulu/Disney+ and available to rent. “If we don’t amend history by making new images and new representations, we are always going to be excluding ourselves.” -Titus Kaphar #BlackHistoryMonth
This week for our #BlackFilmmakersInFocus series, we’re excited to spotlight Titus Kaphar, writer and director of EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, awarded Best New Directors Feature at #NashFilm55. Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming traditional styles and mediums. Through formal innovation, his work emphasizes the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves, seeking to dislodge history from its status as the “past” and reveal its contemporary relevance. Kaphar approaches filmmaking as an extension of his studio practice, expanding existing bodies of painting and sculpture through film. His semi-autobiographical feature film debut, EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, follows a Black artist whose path to success is disrupted by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, with Kaphar’s own paintings featured throughout the film. EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS is now streaming on Hulu/Disney+ and available to rent. “If we don’t amend history by making new images and new representations, we are always going to be excluding ourselves.” -Titus Kaphar #BlackHistoryMonth
This week for our #BlackFilmmakersInFocus series, we’re excited to spotlight Titus Kaphar, writer and director of EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, awarded Best New Directors Feature at #NashFilm55. Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming traditional styles and mediums. Through formal innovation, his work emphasizes the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves, seeking to dislodge history from its status as the “past” and reveal its contemporary relevance. Kaphar approaches filmmaking as an extension of his studio practice, expanding existing bodies of painting and sculpture through film. His semi-autobiographical feature film debut, EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, follows a Black artist whose path to success is disrupted by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, with Kaphar’s own paintings featured throughout the film. EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS is now streaming on Hulu/Disney+ and available to rent. “If we don’t amend history by making new images and new representations, we are always going to be excluding ourselves.” -Titus Kaphar #BlackHistoryMonth
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This week for our #BlackFilmmakersInFocus series, we’re excited to spotlight Titus Kaphar, writer and director of EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, awarded Best New Directors Feature at #NashFilm55. Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming traditional styles and mediums. Through formal innovation, his work emphasizes the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves, seeking to dislodge history from its status as the “past” and reveal its contemporary relevance. Kaphar approaches filmmaking as an extension of his studio practice, expanding existing bodies of painting and sculpture through film. His semi-autobiographical feature film debut, EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, follows a Black artist whose path to success is disrupted by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, with Kaphar’s own paintings featured throughout the film. EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS is now streaming on Hulu/Disney+ and available to rent. “If we don’t amend history by making new images and new representations, we are always going to be excluding ourselves.” -Titus Kaphar #BlackHistoryMonth
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We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day the way we know best: with great movies! Our programming team is sharing some of their favorite love stories. Swipe for picks from Lauren Thelen, Director of Programming Nichole Young, Shorts Programmer Taylor Lomax, Associate Programmer Jennifer Bonior, TN & Graveyard Programmer Julia Kipnis, Documentary Feature Programmer What are your favorites? Happy Valentine’s Day from NashFilm 💌
We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day the way we know best: with great movies! Our programming team is sharing some of their favorite love stories. Swipe for picks from Lauren Thelen, Director of Programming Nichole Young, Shorts Programmer Taylor Lomax, Associate Programmer Jennifer Bonior, TN & Graveyard Programmer Julia Kipnis, Documentary Feature Programmer What are your favorites? Happy Valentine’s Day from NashFilm 💌
We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day the way we know best: with great movies! Our programming team is sharing some of their favorite love stories. Swipe for picks from Lauren Thelen, Director of Programming Nichole Young, Shorts Programmer Taylor Lomax, Associate Programmer Jennifer Bonior, TN & Graveyard Programmer Julia Kipnis, Documentary Feature Programmer What are your favorites? Happy Valentine’s Day from NashFilm 💌
We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day the way we know best: with great movies! Our programming team is sharing some of their favorite love stories. Swipe for picks from Lauren Thelen, Director of Programming Nichole Young, Shorts Programmer Taylor Lomax, Associate Programmer Jennifer Bonior, TN & Graveyard Programmer Julia Kipnis, Documentary Feature Programmer What are your favorites? Happy Valentine’s Day from NashFilm 💌
We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day the way we know best: with great movies! Our programming team is sharing some of their favorite love stories. Swipe for picks from Lauren Thelen, Director of Programming Nichole Young, Shorts Programmer Taylor Lomax, Associate Programmer Jennifer Bonior, TN & Graveyard Programmer Julia Kipnis, Documentary Feature Programmer What are your favorites? Happy Valentine’s Day from NashFilm 💌
We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day the way we know best: with great movies! Our programming team is sharing some of their favorite love stories. Swipe for picks from Lauren Thelen, Director of Programming Nichole Young, Shorts Programmer Taylor Lomax, Associate Programmer Jennifer Bonior, TN & Graveyard Programmer Julia Kipnis, Documentary Feature Programmer What are your favorites? Happy Valentine’s Day from NashFilm 💌
We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day the way we know best: with great movies! Our programming team is sharing some of their favorite love stories. Swipe for picks from Lauren Thelen, Director of Programming Nichole Young, Shorts Programmer Taylor Lomax, Associate Programmer Jennifer Bonior, TN & Graveyard Programmer Julia Kipnis, Documentary Feature Programmer What are your favorites? Happy Valentine’s Day from NashFilm 💌
We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day the way we know best: with great movies! Our programming team is sharing some of their favorite love stories. Swipe for picks from Lauren Thelen, Director of Programming Nichole Young, Shorts Programmer Taylor Lomax, Associate Programmer Jennifer Bonior, TN & Graveyard Programmer Julia Kipnis, Documentary Feature Programmer What are your favorites? Happy Valentine’s Day from NashFilm 💌
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We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day the way we know best: with great movies! Our programming team is sharing some of their favorite love stories. Swipe for picks from Lauren Thelen, Director of Programming Nichole Young, Shorts Programmer Taylor Lomax, Associate Programmer Jennifer Bonior, TN & Graveyard Programmer Julia Kipnis, Documentary Feature Programmer What are your favorites? Happy Valentine’s Day from NashFilm 💌
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This week for our #BlackFilmmakersInFocus series, we’re excited to spotlight Tennessee native Raven Jackson, writer and director of ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT from #NashFilm54. Raven Jackson is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature. Nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director, Raven’s debut narrative film, ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT, world-premiered in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and was named one of the top ten movies of the year by The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and RogerEbert.com. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a featured artist on Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, she has served as a Story Editor for HBO’s adaptation of Sula, based on Toni Morrison’s novel, and co-wrote an episode of the Apple TV+ Series, Surface. She’s currently an inaugural Black Film Project Fellow at Harvard University, and has been a Film Independent Amplifier Fellow, a Sundance Momentum Fellow, and a Rideback Rise Resident. ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT is available to stream on @primevideo and to rent on Google Play, YouTube, and Apple TV. Follow along as we continue to spotlight incredible Black storytellers shaping the future of cinema this #BlackHistoryMonth.
This week for our #BlackFilmmakersInFocus series, we’re excited to spotlight Tennessee native Raven Jackson, writer and director of ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT from #NashFilm54. Raven Jackson is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature. Nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director, Raven’s debut narrative film, ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT, world-premiered in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and was named one of the top ten movies of the year by The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and RogerEbert.com. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a featured artist on Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, she has served as a Story Editor for HBO’s adaptation of Sula, based on Toni Morrison’s novel, and co-wrote an episode of the Apple TV+ Series, Surface. She’s currently an inaugural Black Film Project Fellow at Harvard University, and has been a Film Independent Amplifier Fellow, a Sundance Momentum Fellow, and a Rideback Rise Resident. ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT is available to stream on @primevideo and to rent on Google Play, YouTube, and Apple TV. Follow along as we continue to spotlight incredible Black storytellers shaping the future of cinema this #BlackHistoryMonth.
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This week for our #BlackFilmmakersInFocus series, we’re excited to spotlight Tennessee native Raven Jackson, writer and director of ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT from #NashFilm54. Raven Jackson is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature. Nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director, Raven’s debut narrative film, ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT, world-premiered in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and was named one of the top ten movies of the year by The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and RogerEbert.com. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a featured artist on Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, she has served as a Story Editor for HBO’s adaptation of Sula, based on Toni Morrison’s novel, and co-wrote an episode of the Apple TV+ Series, Surface. She’s currently an inaugural Black Film Project Fellow at Harvard University, and has been a Film Independent Amplifier Fellow, a Sundance Momentum Fellow, and a Rideback Rise Resident. ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT is available to stream on @primevideo and to rent on Google Play, YouTube, and Apple TV. Follow along as we continue to spotlight incredible Black storytellers shaping the future of cinema this #BlackHistoryMonth.
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