Bless Her Heart

Eli Heaton and Callie Bacon · 2024 · 13 minutes

Screening as part of Made in Tennessee Shorts 1
Nov. 16 · Regal Riviera · 3:30 p.m.

Jamie works a sterile desk job and nurses a stagnant relationship until a great aunt’s funeral shakes up her life.

Eli Heaton has directed a wealth of commercial content with Big Slate Media and eight narrative shorts. He’s a proud producer of many projects by his friends and a founding member of Tennessee-based collective Mesmer Films.

Callie Bacon is an actress, writer, and filmmaker whose passion is using comedy as a tool to tell stories about Appalachian women on a broad scale. When she’s not working on personal projects, she works at the University of Tennessee.