Hoop skirts and parasols, mint juleps and columned mansions. For a stroll back in time, bucolic Natchez , MS offers tourists a comforting view of the antebellum South, glossing over such inconvenient realities as millions of people held in bondage.

That striking contrast between an idealized version of the Confederate era and a sterner reckoning with the truth is explored in the documentary Natchez , directed by Suzannah Herbert and produced by Darcy McKinnon . The film, winner of the top prize for documentary at the Tribeca Festival , just screened at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas.

The new edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast comes to you from Hot Springs, where we spoke with the Natchez filmmakers. Herbert and McKinnon tell us how their backg

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