Baltimore electronic music wizard Dan Deacon will headline the 2019 Tallahassee Film Festival Saturday night party, with a DJ set at The Wilbury! The show, co-sponsored by Word of South and COCA, promises to be one highlight among many at our celebration of independent and international cinema. Deacon, whose eight albums include Spiderman of the Rings, Bromst and Gliss Riffer, is notorious for his wild and spontaneous live shows that meld the vibe of a performance-art happening with his free-thinking permutations on decades of avant-garde music lineage. In recent years, he also has won renown as a composer of film scores, work he will discuss in a special festival conversation.

A visionary immersion into Jamaican life, and, as its title implies, the lives of its women, Khalik Allah’s bracing, hypnotic documentary comes to light in a rush of imagery that conjures both the mythic and the matter-of-fact. These scenes are captured with sometimes overpowering intimacy in the raw grain of 8 and 16mm film, as well as video and still camera images, which the filmmaker, who has family roots on the Caribbean island, has been shooting since his adolescence.

Help us kick off our 2019 Opening Night on the red carpet with a fun throwback to the 90s! Bernadette is a nod to your favorite 90s high school rom-coms, so head to the movie theater with us (like you used to in the 90s!) and stay for the after party sponsored by CMX Cinemas Fallschase!