Natchez - Director Suzannah Herbert *Winner Best Documentary 2025 Tribeca Film Festival*

WINNER of Best Documentary, 2025 Tribeca Festival, Suzannah Herbert's jaw-dropping NATCHEZ captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town; a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all.

About the filmmaker - Suzannah Herbert is a documentary director and editor from Memphis whose directing work focuses on the American South. Herbert’s directorial debut WRESTLE was nominated for two News & Documentary Emmys and named one of the top five documentaries of 2019 by the National Board of Review. As an editor, Herbert has collaborated on Bob Dylan film projects, most recently editing the permanent experiential film at Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center. She edited Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s Grammy-nominated music video, “I Get a Kick Out of You,” and the award-winning vérité film A WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE (SXSW 2022, PBS AMERICA REFRAMED) Awarded Best Documentary at its premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, NATCHEZ has since been honored with 18 awards on the festival circuit and was named one of the top 5 documentaries of 2025 by the National Board of Review. THE NEW YORKER’S Richard Brody called NATCHEZ “Stunning.” The film is currently in theatrical release in over 40 cities with Oscilloscope Laboratories and will broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in May 2026.