It’s a fantastic film that’s thrilling to watch for its story, but even more so for its form, and it makes me excited to see whatever Fields does next.

Trim Season is a fantastical and thought-provoking commentary on gender and the magical benefits of cannabis.

How far would you be willing to go to become famous? This is the question a group of three twentysomething women ask themselves when they decide to form a black metal band in Chile in the late 1990s.

Seasoned fear-fare aficionados may be well versed in the set-up of director Stephen Vanderpool’s Tearsucker… but I can guarantee that the villain in this dark, macabre work has a disturbing perversion that you haven’t seen before.

To describe Breathing Happy as a beautiful film is a drastic understatement of the brilliance of Shane Brady’s poignant Christmas story.

I’m so grateful to have one more year in the books at CFF. And what a year it was! I scoured through so much diverse content, but here are my favorites from the 2022 festival.

Ariel and Candace are “back” from Chattanooga Film Festival– meaning all the way from the comfort of their own couch to yours as you’re reading this now- and bringing you the best of the best for indie horror cinema to look out for.

Amid the many traditional, basic films that come out, every once in awhile we get a film that goes beyond the boundaries of what you expect from filmmaking.

“Cruise,” “Exo Sapien,” “Smile,” “Sucker,” and “Red Is the Color of Beauty”

A mirror held up to show us what we want to forget can be brutally effective in the right hands, and it can haunt us long after the camera stops rolling. In the case of the Irish film Gateway, Niall Owens has those hands giving us such a mirror.

When the program for the 2022 Chattanooga Film Festival was announced, one film immediately jumped out at me based on the title alone.

Theodore Schaefer’s Giving Birth To A Butterfly is a movie that will bring to mind some of Lynch’s work but undoubtedly stands on its own two feet, and in the process of paying homage to Montana’s favorite weirdo gives us something undeniably beautiful and deeply moving.

Robbie Banfitch’s The Outwaters is not one of those films that makes you wish the Found Footage genre would just stay dead and instead reminds you of how truly weird the technique can be.

One of the most exciting things about independent movies is being able to bring to life a concept that big studios wouldn’t fund, such as Bryan Connolly’s scathingly accurate satire of the Hollywood film industry, Make Popular Movies.

Ashley Anderson says this showcase includes a delightful collection of thrillers, comedies, fear, and surprises.

E.L. King says the Dangerous Visions Vol. 2 showcase of horror and genre shorts at the Chattanooga Film Festival takes us to other worlds and explores are deepest fears.

Sammy Mannion says the Dangerous Visions Vol. 1 showcase of horror and genre shorts at Chattanooga Film Festival is deeply moving, frightening, brilliant and gruesome.

Ashley Anderson says the satire in Guts is a reprieve from its gruesome moments.

Jaclyn Barlett says with alluring cinematography and a surreal structure, Wulver’s Stane is a captivating work of art.

Ashley Anderson says Mystery Spot is an interesting story with a confusing and unsatisfying ending.