Ziggy’s Arts Adventure by Clay Achee, a Baton Rouge native, is an educational series for K-5 on LPB that teaches the integral “soft” concepts of art education, social skills, and emotional intelligence.
Continuing the theme of upcoming Louisiana film festivals, the Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival is ramping up activity to prepare for its 17th annual festival from January 11th to 15th, 2023.
Cinema on the Bayou will have its 18th annual film festival from January 26th to February 2nd in Lafayette, LA. The festival is an international celebration of original voices from around the world, but especially gravitates towards French Louisiana’s cajun and creole cultures and screens an impressive number of French-language films.
New Orleans Film Festival will run from November 3rd through the 8th in various venues across New Orleans. NOFF is offering $50 discounts, and another $50 for the New Orleans Film Society members.
When you cut through the external buzz of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’, what you have is an adventure mystery built on the foundation of an atmosphere. The marsh – the buzz of cicadas and the sun that drips down through the cypress trees – it’s a living piece of this story. The effects and the composition are paramount.
We talked to editor Alan E. Bell and VFX Supervisor Kolby Kember of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ about how they helped build the atmosphere of Crawdads with their editing and visual effects expertise.
Cassie Doyle spoke to us about her process as a screenwriter, her path into it, and the collage of components that come together to make a good movie work.
“My boss was the head of scripted content at Lifetime and I read about 200 Christmas script submissions. After the 95th one, I found myself saying, “I can write a better Christmas movie than this.” And so I challenged myself to do it.”
Sex, grief, farting in bed next to your partner. These are a few things our society may deem worthy of the title “intimate”. But childbirth? Imagine sharing the most vulnerable moments of that experience with the world.
This is the basis of Lorna Street Dopson’s fifteen-minute short film Untitled Post-Baby Project, which was created and directed by Lorna Street Dopson during the pandemic and won the prestigious 2020 Louisiana Film Prize.
Last week Kolby Kember and Kyle Dutton of Crafty Apes visited with the Talk 107.3 Morning Show to talk shop with Brian Haldane, and then interviewed with We’ll Fix It In Post, a site that keeps their finger on the pulse of post-production and VFX news in the industry. Kolby and Kyle spoke at length about their technical process and their experience, including paying homage to the vibrant creative scene picking back up in Louisiana.
How can a film with a single character delivering just six minutes of conversation with the world have so much to unpack? That’s the compacted depth of Ms. Blue, the short film by Mary McDade Casteel starring Adella Gautier in one of her final film roles before her passing in August of 2021.