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`Remote Area Medical` Named 2013 NPT Human Spirit Award Winner at Nashville Film Festival
The Nashville Film Festival may not begin until tomorrow, but one award has already been announced. We have chosen “Remote Area Medical,” directors Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman’s document of the annual three day “pop-up” medical clinic organized by the non-profit Remote Area Medical (RAM) at the Bristol, Tennessee NASCAR speedway, as the 2013 recipient [...]
(Media Update) A Conversation With Artist Wayne White
Beauty is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley’s funny, irreverent, inspiring and fascinating documentary about Tennessee-born artist Wayne White, makes its Nashville premiere at the Nashville Film Festival on Thursday April 19 at 6:30 pm. The documentary follows Wayne’s story from his humble roots as a puppeteer in Nashville to his work as one of the creative forces [...]
`Fambul Tok` Named 2011 NPT Human Spirit Award Winner at Nashville Film Festival
Story of reconciliation after Sierra Leone’s brutal war is fifth winner of Nashville Public Television Award. Nashville Public Television (NPT) has chosen “Fambul Tok,” director Sara Terry’s film that follows victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal war engaging in an unprecedented reconciliation program of forgiveness, as the 2011 recipient of the NPT Human Spirit [...]
NPT Music Monthly October 2010: Rock Prophecies, Michael Feinstein and More
“Some people collect stamps; some people collect butterflies,” says photographer Robert M. Knight in the documentary Rock Prophecies. “I think I kinda collect rock stars.” Knight’s been collecting rock stars since the 60s, when as an aspiring 18-year-old photographer he crept his way into the inner circles of Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix before either [...]
Announcing the 2010/11 ITVS Community Cinema Series at Nashville Public Library
We’re proud to announce the 2010/11 season of ITVS Community Cinema in Nashville. Now in its third year in Nashville, Community Cinema returns with nine compelling documentaries from this year’s lineup on Independent Lens, followed by engaging panel discussions and Q&A sessions. The free screening series begins in Nashville on October 30 with Reel Injun: [...]
`Southern Belle` to World Premiere at Nashville Film Festival
The Nashville Film Festival begins Thursday, April 15 at the Regal Green Hills Cinemas, and NPT is proud to celebrate the World Premiere of Southern Belle, made possible by NPT through an ITVS LINCS grant. Southern Belle will screen on Saturday, April 17 at 4:45 p.m. and again on Sunday, April 18 at 2:00 p.m. [...]
Free Screening of Garbage Dreams Sat Jan 23 at Downtown Library
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVC-kE0p0Q"] GARBAGE DREAMS, which screens for free as part of our ITVS Community Cinema series on Saturday, January 23 at 3:00 p.m. at the downtown library, was one of the big success stories at the 2009 Nashville Film Festival (NaFF). Mai Iskander’s profile of the Zaballeen — Egypt’s “garbage people” — picked up the REEL [...]
Free Screening of Young@Heart Saturday Dec 12 at Downtown Library
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLAPl4UT0Vc"] [youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gosIuO1HqEg"] I handle PR for both Nashville Public Television and Nashville Film Festival, and occasionally, there are wonderful times when the line between the two blurs, and I can talk about both in the same breath. Some of the finest documentaries that play the Festival often wind up airing on NPT, whether because of [...]
Short Film by Murfreesboro Filmmaker Will Broadcast on P.O.V.
JENNIFER, a short film by Murfreesboro’s Stewart Copeland, and a winner of the Tennessee Independent Spirit Award for a short film at the 2009 Nashville Film Festival, will be broadcast nationally — including on NPT — via the PBS series P.O.V. on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 9:00 p.m. Central. JENNIFER is one of two [...]
(Later That Same Day) NPT at the Nashville Film Festival
The 2009 Nashville Film Festival wrapped up a few weeks ago, after eight days of fantastic World, US and Southeastern premieres, celebrities, panels, workshops and parties. NPT was once again a part of the event, this time in a couple of ways. This year’s winner of the NPT Human Spirit Award was Crude, director Joe [...]
