Road to Chattanooga Film Festival 2019 - CFF 2016 recap

With the Chattanooga Film Festival just over a month away, Eric and I have already begun our CFF 2019 coverage...by talking about the previous years of CFF.  The Chattanooga Film Festival is so much more than just the movies...it is a cinematic experience and an opportunity to talk with other people who love cinema just as much as you do (including many of the people involved in making the films screened at CFF)...but, obviously the movies are a pretty major part.  And while I wish that each episode leading up to CFF could be a deep-dive into every single movie screened each year, that just isn't possible (but, I'm sure that Eric and I will eventually be covering all of the movies screened in previous years in future episodes).  So, instead, each week we will be focusing on a few movies that really highlight the Chattanooga Film Festival experience from each of the previous years that I have attended (this will be the fourth year that I have attended CFF and the first year that Eric has attended) as a way to give Eric (and our listeners) a glimpse of what CFF is like, starting with 2016.  

The criteria for the movies picked from each year are: 1) they are movies that I saw during the film festival that year, 2) they are movies that are available online (Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.), 3) they are movies that represented the experience of the film fest, rather than just being a good movie (there are some movies that are great movies, but you could get roughly the same experience seeing them in any movie theater...and there are other movies that might not necessarily be as "good," but it will be an experience that you are not likely to have outside of a film festival).  With those criteria in mind, the films from 2016 that are covered in tonight's episode are:  The Wraith, Bad Blood: The Movie, The Blackcoat's Daughter, Demon, The Invitation, and Buddymoon.  We end the episode talking about the wave 1 announcement of the films that will be screening at the Chattanooga Film Festival 2019, including the announcement that Crispin Hellion Glover will be attending for a screening and presentation!!!!  

For tickets or more information (including complete lists of films screened each year) go to chattfilmfest.org - and be sure to follow them on Facebook, Instagram, and/or Twitter to stay up to date on announcements for CFF 2019.  

And be sure to come back next week as Eric and I continue our CFF pre-coverage by discussing some of the films from CFF 2017!!

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