EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Natchez , an expected Oscar contender that won the Best Documentary Feature Award at this year’s Tribeca Festival.

Suzannah Herbert ( Wrestle ) produced and directed the film set in Natchez, Miss., a historic town that has become a tourist magnet for its well-preserved and stately antebellum homes. Herbert captures remarkable scenes of white visitors indulging in nostalgia for the Confederacy blithely unaware, seemingly, of the violence and inhumanity of the pre-Civil War era when millions of African Americans were enslaved. Black townspeople and visitors to Natchez cast a warier eye on the spectacle of romanticizing this time in American history.

The acquisition announcement comes just days after Pen

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