John F. Beach took home the Grand Prize at the 2022 Louisiana Film Prize festival for his short film They Grow Up So Fast. The Film Prize was made up of a fiercely competitive battle royale arena of 20 films competing for the $50,000 award.
Louisiana Film Prize Festival runs from October 20th to 22nd, and the festival will stream virtually and with in-person screenings at various locations in Shreveport. Unicorn Poop by Lorna Street Dopson is one of 20 films you can vote for!
Richard Linklater’s Hitman starring Glen Powell as undercover hitman, begins production on October 4th in New Orleans, and will wrap on November 16th.
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.
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.
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.
Samantha, a short horror film written and directed by Josh Carley premiered February 8th as a featured short on the ALTER Youtube channel.