Photo courtesy of Beckett Media Pro / Dagan Beckett holds the Midsouth Regional Emmy he won for his film, “Songbirds: A Documentary.”And the Emmy award for documentary topical goes to “Songbirds: A Documentary.”
The film, which was created by Dagan Beckett, was given the honor last week by the Nashville/Midsouth chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Its competition was “Amber’s Halfway Home,” “Broken,” “Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville” and “The Skin We’re In.”
Dagan told the Times Free Press in a telephone interview that he originally made the film as a passion project because he had spent a lot of time at the museum. He has entered into several film festivals around the world and winning an Emmy is a next step he couldn’t have imagined when he started the process.
“It has been amazing,” he said of the last year.
In making the film, Beckett tells the story of not only the Songbirds Guitar Museum, which closed in August 2020, but the stories of as many of the nearly 1,400 guitars in the private collection as he could.