Filmmaker Dagan Beckett on “Beautiful Faces” Revisited

Dr. Larry Sargent, preparing Beth Wilson for her mid-face surgical procedure during the film of “Beautiful Faces.”(Holt Webb Photography)(Aired 7/09/24) A documentary on the extraordinary work of a surgeon here in Chattanooga, three of his patients and their families is now available worldwide.The surgeon in the film “Beautiful Faces” is Dr. Larry Sargent, the founder and director of the Craniofacial Center at Children’s Hospital at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga - and the founder of the Craniofacial Foundation of America, serving patients with facial deformities for more than three decades.A close-up of the “Beautiful Faces” poster.(Beautiful Faces Film / Facebook)The filmmaker behind “Beautiful Faces” is Dagan Beckett, a graduate of our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.Dagan Beckett(Beckett Arts Project)