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Natchez

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Natchez

Q&A with filmmaker Suzannah Herbert on Feb. 24

2025. 86 m. Suzannah Herbert. Oscilloscope Laboratories. US. English. Rated NR.

Winner of best documentary feature at Tribeca, along with special jury awards for cinematography (to Noah Collier) and editing (Pablo Proenza), Natchez captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town; a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present.

Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all.

"The question of how we see our history and who gets to decide is powerfully presented, with respect and insight, in the documentary Natchez.”
Nell Minow, RogerEbert.com
"The documentary puts personalities to ideas; it teems with notable characters, spanning a range from righteous to indifferent to ignoble, who excel at speaking their minds and expressing their emotions when a camera is pointed at them."
Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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Q&A with filmmaker Suzannah Herbert

Tuesday, Feb. 24 2026, 7:00

  • Suzannah Herbert is a documentary director and editor from Memphis whose directing work focuses on the American South. Herbert directed and produced the twice Emmy-nominated film Wrestle. Named one of the top 5 documentaries of 2019 by the National Board of Review, lauded as “superb” by the Los Angeles Times, and hailed as a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Wrestle was released theatrically by Oscilloscope and broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. As an editor, she has collaborated on various Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga projects, music videos and award-winning films like 2022’s A Woman on the Outside (SXSW 2022, PBS’s America Reframed). Her second feature film, Natchez, premiering at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, was supported by ITVS, Catapult Film Fund, the Ford Foundation, Rooftop Films Fund, CIFF Points North Fellowship, Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, Yaddo, True False Catapult Rough Cut Retreat, and Film Independent.

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