Flyover Film Festival and celebrating 15 years of showcasing independent films in Louisville.

And this year, 21 movies will be featured at the five day event that kicks off tonight.

A Taste of Hollywood, Kentucky style and the arts and culture, a segment we call tapestry.

There's a lot of focus on, California and New York, as a filmmaking hub.

But there's so many people that are doing filmmaking here and creating some really, really interesting stuff.

This is the 15th annual Flyover Film Festival.

It's, put on by the Louisville Film Society.

And making a film festival that's local to Louisville is, one of their biggest drivers as a nonprofit is to support filmmakers in that way of showing content and being able to, really showcase the artistry of these flyover states.

And so Indiana, Kentucky, there's some Ohio, connections as well.

There's big film festivals that sound great, you know, and we were fortunate to premiere one of them.

But rather than continue and try and hit all of these big name festivals, we wanted to really hit the festivals that could bring the film to the audience, you know, and so it's really special for us to be to be screening in Louisville.

The film is a is an intimate look at fraud and corruption and the addiction treatment industry.

And interestingly enough, Laura and Daniel who are in the film are both from from Richmond, Kentucky, and they were one of the early families that I met.

So I think our goal is to is to raise the level of awareness.

We'd like to help, you know, provide people with some information so they can be their own advocates.

A lot of the documentary films that we play have an impact campaign that's attached to them, and part of that is wanting to raise awareness about a certain, subject and hopefully create some positive change.

It's a short documentary.

It's called Expression of Illness.

And it follows my experience with thyroid cancer and people who, like anyone who has had an experience in the American health system, you know, people of all walks of life have been patients or caregivers, which is really all of us at some point or another, you know, we're resonating with it and have their own stories to share.

And, so it'll be really special screening that flyover and just like, continue that conversation.

I think the biggest benefit to a film festival is that it gathers people together to watch content.

So many times nowadays, you'll see something on this, this tiny screen in front of you, and you can click share and you can send it to someone.

But it's so different from having that shared experience of being in the theater together and then coming out and having a discussion and talking about it.

You are here for this material.

People do want to support each other.

You know, it's like we live in such a divisive time, but film is this like is the most powerful medium in like bringing people together over a topic.

It's like they are people's neighbors, you know, it's like you can feel like the community was there, and the Q&A and afterwards ends up feeling more like a town hall sometimes, you know what I mean?

So I, you know, we're we're really looking forward to that.

And specifically because is in a lot of ways, you know, screen of filming in Kentucky is kind of like bringing the film home.

Attendees will be able to participate in Q&A sessions after each screening and attend parties.