2020 Nashville Film Festival

Experimental Narratives Shorts Program: American Vanguards

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8 films in package
Foreign Powers
Tantrums
Nobody throws a fit like Francis
Renchik
Sport is the last frontier.
Like Flying
A little Chinese-American girl, surprised by an unexpected visitor, navigates her childhood through her parents’ broken relationship.
Dye Red
Celeste and Aurora have lived together for some time. Dye-Red is a dark but graceful slice-of-life look at their relationship.
Hoss
Hoss checks in on an empty house and finds a stranger inside.
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Waters of March
Experimental Narratives Shorts Program: American Vanguards Q&A
This screening was eligible for NashFilm 2020 Audience Awards. The voting period has now closed. Results will be announced on the morning of Wednesday, October 7th in the Festival Flash email, and on NashFilm social media channels.
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For those of you with an adventurous palette, get ready for some of the most distinctive and formally arresting short films at the festival. This selection of narrative shorts highlights truly singular, boundary-pushing work from some of the most dynamic emerging US filmmakers.


This virtual screening includes a pre-recorded Q&A, which will follow the short films.


Congratulations to Dye Red, winner of the 51st Annual Nashville Film Festival Award for Best Experimental Short Film!


And to Waters of March, Winner of the Audience Award for Experimental Narrative Short Film!

Waters of March explores of grief and how it affects an entire family seen through the eyes of March, a young man grappling with the loss of his grandmother.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    17 minutes
  • Premiere
    Southeast
  • Director
    Chase Johnson
  • Screenwriter
    Chase Johnson
  • Producer
    Suveer Bhatia, Chase Johnson
  • Executive Producer
    Theresa Price, Ricky Price, Dylan Adkins, Suveer Bhatia, Chase Johnson
  • Co-Producer
    William E. Rouse, Deepinder Bhatia, Nandini Chowdhury, Sherri Johnson, Charlie Johnson Jr.
  • Cast
    Malik Willcot, Sylvia Aubrey, Jon Kent Ethridge, Sherri Johnson, Daryl Tanner, Awo Fasegun, Charlie Johnson Jr., Reggie Luckett, Ra'Shon Harper, Preston Pinner, Kelly O'Connor, Benicia King, Parker Lewis
  • Cinematographer
    William E. Rouse
  • Editor
    Nicolas Escobar
  • Production Design
    Chase Johnson, William E. Rouse, Reva Santo, Suveer Bhatia
  • Composer
    Tariq Bright, Garfield Bright
  • Sound Design
    Chase Goodings
  • Music
    Tariq Bright, Garfield Bright, Naveen Bhatia
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