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    NATCHEZ

    Directed by Suzannah Herbert
    USA | 86 minutes | True Stories

  

Winner: Best Documentary Award

Film Festival 2026

In her absorbing, award-winning documentary, filmmaker Suzannah Herbert explores the contradictions of small-town Natchez, Mississippi, through the lens of its unique—and often stranger-than-fiction—cottage industry of antebellum tourism.

film synopsis

The past is present in filmmaker Suzannah Herbert’s electric, prize-winning exploration of the unique—and oftentimes stranger-than-fiction—cottage industry run by the denizens of small-town Natchez, Mississippi: antebellum tourism. Owners of historic plantations open their doors to flocking tourists to show off the white-washed opulence of the Confederacy. Meanwhile, local Black leaders offer vivid tours of their own to correct the record. Shooting with a humid, gauzy dreaminess mirroring the fantasies of the Old South, Herbert uses her immense skill at gaining access into the lives of her fascinating, compulsively watchable subjects to present a community at the crossroads of history. Winner: Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca.

film details

Director: Suzannah Herbert
Producers: Suzannah Herbert, Darcy McKinnon
Screenwriter: Suzannah Herbert, Pablo Proenza
Cinematographers: Noah Collier
Editor: Pablo Proenza
Music: James Newberry
Cast: Tracy "Rev" Collins, Tracy McCartney, Deborah Cosey, Kathleen Bond, Barney Schoby, Mayor Dan Gibson, Ser Boxley
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2025
Running Time: 86 minutes
Director Filmography: Wrestle (2018)
Awards: Best Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival
Primary Company: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Contact Email: info@oscilloscope.net
Website: https://www.gustomovingpictures.com/natchez

Film Festival 2026