Natchez
After generations of showcasing its antebellum homes and hoop-skirted docents, 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.
Screenings
Catch NATCHEZ on the big screen - our film festival tour launches this June!
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Tribeca Film Festival: World Premiere, Monday June 9th at 8pm - Village East by Angelika; Buy Tickets here
Tribeca Film Festival: Second Screening, Tuesday June 10th at 6:15 - Village East by Angelika Buy Tickets here
Tribeca Film Festival Third Screening, Saturday June 14th, 6:15 - Village East by Angelika Buy Tickets here
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Sheffield DocFest: Thursday June 19th, 15:30, Showroom - Bertha DocHouse Screen 3; Buy Tickets here
Sheffield DocFest: Friday June 20th 18:15, Showroom Screen 1; Buy Tickets here
Sheffield DocFest: Sunday June 22, 20:15, Curzon Screen 3; Buy Tickets here
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Bentonville Film Festival: Friday, June 20th at 11AM - Skylight Cinema Screen 4.
PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS
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Meet the Team
Suzannah Hebert
Director / Producer
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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.
Pablo Proenza
Editor
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Pablo Proenza has over 25 years of experience editing, writing and directing for film and television. NATCHEZ is his second collaboration with Suzannah Herbert, having co-written and edited Herbert's festival favorite WRESTLE. He has also been a longtime collaborator with Michael Moore and edited FAHRENHEIT 11/9, which premiered at TIFF and was called “fearless and profound” by Variety; served as a consulting producer on TRUMPLAND; and traveled half the world with Moore for the Oscar-shortlisted WHERE TO INVADE NEXT. Proenza also edited BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB: ADIOS for Oscar-nominated director Lucy Walker and, most recently, edited UVALDE MOM, which premiered at SXSW 2025. Other credits include directing and editing DARK MIRROR, which broke VOD records for IFC Films, directing an episode of the horror/doc show SCHOOL SPIRITS and directing his film debut, VIDI, which the Boston Phoenix called “a masterpiece.”
Cindy Meehl
Executive Producer
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Cindy Meehl is an award-winning director and executive producer known for her feature documentary work. Her directorial debut, BUCK, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the festival’s U.S. Documentary Audience Award, and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Meehl also directed THE DOC DOC (2019), which premiered at the Tribeca Festival and was released in 2020. Her latest film, JIMMY & THE DEMONS, is set to premiere at Tribeca 2025. She has also been an executive producer on a range of acclaimed films including FASHION REIMAGINED (dir. Becky Hutner, 2022), REWIND (dir. Sasha Neulinger, 2019), THE RIVER AND THE WALL (dir. Ben Masters, 2019), FOR THE BIRDS (dir. Richard Miron, 2018), TRAPPED (dir. Dawn Porter, 2016), UNBRANDED (dir. Phillip Baribeau, 2025) and DOGS ON THE INSIDE (dirs. Brean Cunningham and Douglas Seirup, 2014).
Ted Haddock
Executive Producer
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Ted Haddock is Founder & President of Common Pictures, a not-for-profit film company producing stories that humanize, inspire and heal our broken world. Ted also serves as President of The Edward E. Haddock, Jr. Family Foundation, investing in social justice and environmental stewardship. Previously, Ted served as Director of Photography with International Justice Mission in Washington, DC, providing a global voice for survivors of human rights abuses. He earned an MFA in photography from Indiana University and a BA from Furman University. Ted and his wife Kellie live with their family in Orland
Darcy McKinnon
Producer
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Darcy McKinnon is a documentary filmmaker based in New Orleans whose work focuses on the American South and the Caribbean. Recently released projects include A KING LIKE ME and ROLEPLAY (SXSW, 2024), COMMUTED (PBS, 2024), ALGIERS, AMERICA (Hulu, 2023), UNDER G-D (Sundance 2023), LOOK AT ME! XXXTENTACION (SXSW, Hulu, 2022) and THE NEUTRAL GROUND (Tribeca, POV, 2021). Current projects in production include Jason Fitzroy Jeffers’s THE FIRST PLANTATION, Abe Felix’s TURNAROUND, CJ Hunt’s UNLEARNED, Nicole Craine’s KINFOLK and Zac Manuel’s THE INSTRUMENT. McKinnon’s work has been seen on World Channel, AfroPop, POV, Reel South, LPB and Hulu and has screened at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, CPH:DOX and more. She is an alum of the Impact Partners Producing Fellowship and the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellowship and is a recipient of American Documentary’s Creative Visionary Award.
Jesse Allain Marcus
Associate Editor
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Jesse Allain-Marcus is an emmy-nominated editor, filmmaker, and writer whose work involves archives, science fiction, and recently analog filmmaking.
Jesse was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA before receiving a BA in English Literature, with a concentration in Race and Ethnicity, from Wesleyan University. Currently, he resides in Brooklyn, NY and works as a freelance documentary editor.
Jacqueline Glover
Executive Producer
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Jacqueline Glover is co-founder and partner of Lakeville Productions, a company specializing in creating engaging non-fiction and narrative projects for both U.S. and international audiences. Glover is also the Executive Director of the Black Film Project at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard, a newly created fellowship that supports established and emerging filmmakers focusing on the Black experience. Previously, Glover was at Disney, as Head of ABC News Documentary Films and Head of Documentary Programming for Onyx Collective, where she developed, produced, and acquired nonfiction projects for Hulu, including Emmy® nominated "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields" and Oscar® winning documentary, "Summer of Soul." Prior to that, she was Senior Vice President of HBO Documentary Films, overseeing all aspects of the department's programming, including development, acquisitions, and production. Projects included Emmy® Award winner and Peabody Award winner “True Justice," Emmy® Award winner “King in the Wilderness,” Oscar® winner “Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1,” and Spike Lee’s Oscar® nominated documentary "4 Little Girls,” and his Emmy® Award winning documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.” Glover also produced HBO’s “Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives,” which received 4 Emmy® nominations.
Glover’s projects have received numerous awards, including 10 Emmys and 5 Oscars. Glover holds a bachelor's in fine arts from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild Of America.
Additional Team
Rachel Witwer, Line Producer
Brian Fish, Sound Engineer
Sean O’Neil, Sound Engineer
James Newberry, Music
Katie Pham, Associate Producer, Archival Research
Judy Aley, Archival Consultant
Hennen Payne, Additional Photography
Jozefina Gocman, Additional Photography
Adolph Steele, Grip
Sam Gursky, Visual Effects
Matt Davies, MPSE, Re-Recording Mixer
Noah Collier
Director of Photography
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Noah Collier is a cinematographer and director whose directorial debut, CARPET COWBOYS, released by Memory, premiered theatrically in the U.S. in August 2023. Collier’s cinematography credits include the Sundance Special Jury award winner, JAWLINE (Hulu), THE COME UP (Hulu) and SANTA CAMP (HBO).
Sam Pollard
Executive Producer
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Sam Pollard has been called one of “cinema’s most dedicated chroniclers of the Black experience in America.” He has collaborated with Spike Lee since 1990, editing and co-producing a number of Lee’s films, including 4 LITTLE GIRLS and WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE. Pollard has directed and produced SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME (PBS), AUGUST WILSON: THE GROUND ON WHICH I STAND (American Masters), TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’ (American Masters), SOUTH TO BLACK POWER (HBO), CITIZEN ASHE (CNN) and THE LEAGUE (Magnolia Pictures). He co-directed the six-part series WHY WE HATE (The Discovery Channel) and the HBO series ATLANTA’S MISSING AND MURDERED: THE LOST CHILDREN. His 2020 film MLK/FBI (IFC Films) was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Mari Nakachi
Executive Producer
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Mari Nakachi is co-founder and partner of Lakeville Productions, a company specializing in creating engaging non-fiction and narrative projects for both U.S. and international audiences. With over 20 years of experience producing successful stage productions and visual media in New York and Japan, Nakachi has a strong background in cross-cultural content creation. Her work in visual media includes co-directing and producing a documentary for Asahi TV and translating the poignant Japanese children's book Every Year When August Comes into English, which subsequently reached Danish and Swedish audiences, underscoring the power of storytelling to transcend cultural boundaries. Previously, as a partner at Carrmaquest Productions, Nakachi produced the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Dinner with Friends.” Her extensive theatrical productions have garnered numerous accolades, including a Tony Award® nomination, a Lucille Lortel Award, a Dramatist Guild Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and a Drama Desk Award nomination. Nakachi has also contributed her expertise as a panelist for the “Made in NY: Behind the Scenes” Industry Series event at the Apollo Theatre, presented by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and The Broadway League.
A former corporate attorney, she is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law. Her commitment to the arts began early with Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and continues through her service on the boards of the Second Stage Theater, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Foundation, and Harvard College.