DATE: 03/21/26
TIME: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Plaza Theatre
PRICE: ADVANCED REGISTRATION: $15 NON MEMBERS – Now until January 29th | DAY OF REGISTRATION: $18
ATLFS Member discounts applied at checkout
Join ATLFF at the Plaza for a screening of POSSUM TOWN, a Southern-set documentary feature by local filmmaker Daniel Christian. This screening will be accompanied by a Q&A with filmmakers.
about POSSUM TOWN:
O. N. Pruitt — the "picture man" for the small town of Columbus, Mississippi, during the Jim Crow era — was one of the most prolific photographers of his time. Nearly a century later, a Columbus native who grew up surrounded by the ghosts of Pruitt's work delves into his vast archive of photographic negatives, opening a portal where images of past and present converge in the everyday stories of the town's citizens today.
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Daniel Christian is a filmmaker, programmer, and writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. His feature documentary POSSUM TOWN premiered at the 2025 New/Next Film Festival and was an official selection at the 2026 Oxford Film Festival. He is a documentary programmer for the Atlanta Film Festival, and he co-curated the 2025 Ethics at the Movies screening series, a partnership between the Emory Center for Ethics and the Atlanta Film Society.
In 2024, he edited the feature fiction film DO YOU SAY WHAT YOU MEAN? (dir. Win Marks). His 2020 short documentary NATCHEZ played at the First Look Festival at the Museum of the Moving Image and won the jury award for best film at the Stronger than Fiction Film Festival. Daniel worked in a variety of roles — assistant editor, second camera, and more — on the 2021 Oscar-shortlisted documentary PROCESSION (dir. Robert Greene), which premiered at Telluride and is distributed by Netflix.
He has a master's degree from the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri. He is a writer at Emory and his film criticism has been published in Filmmaker Magazine,Paste, and other outlets.