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NATCHEZ
by Suzannah Herbert

SYNOPSIS
After generations of showcasing its pre-Civil War mansions and hoop-skirted guides, Natchez, Mississippi, is now reckoning with a romanticized past, an uncertain future and the debt it owes to the descendants of slavery. A cinematic portrait of a tourist town at a crossroads, NATCHEZ follows an array of historic homeowners, activists and tour guides as they tell their versions of the past, and clash over who gets to tell America’s story.
DETAILS
87 mins
2025
USA
English

BIOGRAPHY
DIRECTOR - SUZANNAH HERBERT
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.
SELECT FESTIVALS
TRIBECA 2025 - BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, SPECIAL MENTIONS CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING〡SHEFFIELD DOCFEST 2025〡DC/DOX 2025
PRESS
"One of the Great Documentaries of the 21st Century - and the 19th Century as well"
"Deliriously enjoyable and enlightening"
"Stylish and sophisticated"
— THE MOVEABLE FEST
"Smart"
"Provocative"
— THE AISLE SEAT
"A Really Good Film"
— UNSEEN FILMS
"Wholly entrancing”
"Mesmerizing"
— BEYOND THE CINEMADOME
"Excellent"
— THE PEACH REVIEW
"It seems there might just be hope for this divided nation of ours.”
— HAMMER TO NAIL
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