Chattanooga Pulse

The selection committee for the Chattanooga Arts and Education Council’s Independent Film Series is a unique assemblage of local film enthusiasts—there’s the projectionist, the film reviewer, the music critic, the filmmaker, a host of film series regulars, and a smattering of other Chattanoogans.  They all gather in the few weeks before each series starts to hash out what independent and foreign films should make the cut for the fall and spring series. Armed with printouts of film reviews, press kits, and links to movie trailers, they circle up at a table in the back of the AEC office to shoot the breeze about films they’ve seen, want to see, and think Chattanooga should see, too.

The AEC’s Independent Film Series is the only venue in Chattanooga to see the best and most recent independent and foreign films on the big screen.  For 24 weeks during the fall and spring of each year, the AEC provides one film a week on a screen in the Carmike Majestic 12.  Documentaries, dramas, musicals, thrillers, horror films, foreign offerings—anything is fair game for this series and the uncontested variety more »