DATE: Thursday, April 9th
TIME: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
LOCATION: Emory University - Rita Anne Rollins Building Room 102
PRICE: FREE!
In partnership with the Center for Ethics in the Arts at Emory University, the Atlanta Film Society presents a free screening of NATCHEZ and a Q&A with Suzannah Herbert, Producer and Director.
This event is free and open to the public; ticket reservation is required.
Film 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.
ETHICS AT THE MOVIES
Ethics at the Movies is a documentary screening series presented by the Center for Ethics at Emory University, featuring in-person post-film conversations with members of creative teams. Ethics at the Movies has screened over 40 films and hosted such distinguished guest artists as Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand; photographer and filmmaker Ansley West; Regina Kelly, the inspiration behind the film American Violet; and Foreign Press Association Journalist of the Year Award and Peabody Award winner Saeed Kamali Dehghan, among others.
Parking
The most convenient parking is located in the Peavine Visitors Lot, 29 Eagle Row, Atlanta, 30322.
For more parking information, please visit the Emory University Transportation and Parking site.
About the Panelists
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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.
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Director of Ethics & the Arts at Emory Center for Ethics. Full bio coming soon.
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Daniel Christian is a filmmaker, programmer, and writer in Atlanta, Georgia. His feature documentary POSSUM TOWN premiered at the 2025 New/Next Film Festival. He has programmed documentary features at the Atlanta Film Festival since 2021 and co-curated the 2025 Ethics at the Movies screening series, a partnership between the Emory Center for Ethics and the Atlanta Film Society. He is a senior writer for Emory's content and brand story team, covering campus and community engagement.
See the full 2025 - 2026 program here