Film Seminars | Discussions | Intros

Belmont University Motion Pictures Associate Professor Jake Mahaffy will present a case study with footage from his new no-budget feature film. Mahaffy will also workshop attendees’ own stories and project plans so they can be realized immediately on micro-budget principles. This workshop is for anyone —beginners, students or professionals – interested in elevating and expanding their filmmaking skills and learning a practical, proven mindset of making more from less.

A tech-entrepreneur (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of buried loved ones — until a spate of vandalized graves threatens to put his enterprise at risk. Written following the death of his own wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia.

The tumultuous journey of beloved singer-songwriter Janis Ian – who found fame as a teenager with her boundary-breaking song “Society’s Child” – unfolds in this saga of an artist who triumphed over homophobia, a misogynistic music industry, debilitating health issues, and a gun-toting lover.

Channelling the cringe comedy of his hit sketch series I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson portrays a suburban dad obsessively pursuing camaraderie with his charming neighbor (Paul Rudd).

A wildly entertaining and fittingly unconventional documentary about convention-defying singer, songwriter and record producer Jerry Williams, aka Swamp Dogg, one of the great cult figures of 20th-century American music whose singular voice and ideas have shaped the history not merely of soul music, but of country, hip-hop and a dozen other genres.

Shot across the better part of the last decade, Seth Pomeroy’s long-gestating portrait of Nashville-based comedian, writer, podcaster and political candidate/raconteur Chris Crofton finally emerges from the shadows — covering its subject from ascent, descent, and ascent again.

Gathering insight and predictions from some of the world’s most influential scientists and innovators, filmmaker Werner Herzog takes audiences on a provocative journey into the study of the mind and consciousness.

Director Alex Ross Perry constructs a kaleidoscopic impression of the band Pavement by mounting scripted scenes with actors in a fake biopic, a musical stage play based on their songs, an exhibition of questionable ephemera, and blends it all together with archival footage. Opening Night Q&A with band members Bob Nastanovich and Steve West.

On the quest for a better life, 18-year-old Caine Lawson (Tyrin Turner) wants to break out of the vicious cycle of violence he’s always known growing up in the hood. Gritty and unabashed, MENACE II SOCIETY remains one of the most relevant films of Black cinema culture. Pizza and a Movie, co-presented with Slim & Husky's Pizza Beeria