Natchez — Suzannah Herbert [Tribeca '25 Review]

Natchez — Suzannah Herbert [Tribeca '25 Review]

Director Suzannah Herbert’s documentary Natchez, which counts Sam Pollard among its executive producers and won this year’s Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival, captures the contradictions and tensions of a small Mississippi town reliant on Antebellum tourism with polyphonic complexity. Its implications broaden as its focus grows ever more specific, and in Herbert’s humanistic [...] The post Natchez — Suzannah Herbert [Tribeca ’…

“An Exploration of Whiteness and the Flattering Illusions of History”: Suzannah Herbert on her Tribeca-Winning Natchez

Suzannah Herbert’s Natchez is a multilayered, character-driven look at the titular town in Mississippi (U.S.), which is wholly dependent on a declining industry. In this case, the manufacturing is of whitewashed tales that have turned into hardened history. For generations, Natchez has been financially dependent on its antebellum tourism industry, in which hoop-skirted docents in grand mansions regale visitors with, as one knowing character puts…