A New Poetry and Film Collaboration Brings Versified Cinema to OZ Arts Defy Film Festival and Kindling Arts Festival present 12 Poetry Into Film Collaborations May 7-8 Tweet To Have a Name by Angell Foster and Alora Young
Nashville’s Defy Film Festival celebrated its fifth birthday in September. The showcase of eclectic experimental films managed one of the most successful transitions to online culture presentation we saw during a period of strict social distancing. Five years also seems to have marked a coming-of-age moment for the weird little movie festival that could, as organizers are now expanding their programming in collaboration with Kindling Arts Festival and OZ Arts to present a weekend of screenings of short films created by local poets paired with local filmmakers.