Filmmaker: 96 Hours in Knoxville

“FILM FEST KNOX has so far avoided becoming an awards season player (beyond the Regal-sponsored Academy-qualifying run awarded to the American Regional Competition winner) and instead doubled down on its modest, edifying profile. “Personal ambitious regional cinema” is an admirable mandate, one that implicitly rejects the twin directives of mass appeal and continuous growth as end-all-be-all ambitions for arts organizations; FILM FEST KNOX achieves it simply by screening locally made work feet away from multiplex fare like Black Phone 2. It’s one thing to admire a mission statement, another thing entirely for a festival to introduce me to two filmmakers I didn’t previously know and push me to seek out more of their work on my own time.”

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