Hindsight Film Festival

March 2026 | Savannah, GA
The Hindsight Film Festival will focus on newly released historical documentaries that examine our past from fresh perspectives.

Filmmakers, historians, and audiences will come together for four days of screenings and discussion at the Otis S. Johnson Cultural Arts Center. We're working with local academic institutions and community groups to build a diverse audience of all ages that will engage with each other as they learn about history through film.

On June 6th, 2025, Hindsight Film Festival hosted our first preview event at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center. The Disappearance of Miss Scott, a PBS American Masters film, was shown to a diverse capacity crowd of 250 attendees. Our sponsor Cinema Savannah helped promote the event to their loyal following of over 1,000 film enthusiasts, and The Better Angels Society generously sponsored the travel for Emmy Award-winning director Nicole London to be there for an in-person Q&A. The son of Hazel Scott, Adam Clayton Powell III, was also interviewed on a live-stream by Christina Davis, Professor of History from Savannah State University, the local HBCU.

PRESS

The Savannahian | Hazel Scott documentary screening sets the stage for local film fest effort

Savannah Morning News | Savannah's Hindsight Film Festival presents PBS documentary at Cultural Arts Center

WTOC Morning Break TV interview | Free Screening to Preview Film Festival

WSAV Community Corner TV interview | Hindsight Film Festival presents FREE screening of 'The Disappearance of Miss Scott', a PBS American Masters film

Kareem McMichael | Unearthing a Legend: Hazel Scott's Story Comes to Savannah Through Hindsight Film Festival

Thank you to our presenting sponsors
CinemaSavannah and The Better Angels Society

For sponsorships, donations, partnerships, volunteering or other inquiries, please contact our festival director.

Pat Longstreth | Festival Director
pat@hindsightfilmfest.com
cell: (912) 328-4763
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