Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival and Acadiana Center for the Arts have teamed up to celebrate five days of movies with an opening night event on Wednesday, Jan. 26 at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival is also pleased to announce their Jan. 26-30, 2011 festival films and events at venues around Lafayette, including the AcA, Cite des Arts, LITE, Pack and Paddle and the Lafayette Parish South Regional Library. Filmmakers, who have long supported this boutique film festival because of the our unique culture, will be in attendance from New Orleans, Shreveport, Austin, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago and Toronto, Canada. A complete schedule of events is posted at www.cinemaonthebayou.com. Support is provided by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the Lafayette Convention & Visitors Commission.
Opening the festival on Wednesday, Jan. 26 will be the Louisiana premiere of “Disfarmer: A Portrait of America,” a documentary on the discovery of an artistic genius who created hauntingly beautiful portraits of the American heartland in Heber Springs, Arkansas in the 1940’s and 50’s. The film will screen at 6:30 p.m. and will be followed at 7:30 p.m. by a reception for Toronto based filmmaker Dennis Mohr. Complimentary wine and appetizers will be served. Tickets for the opening night event are $10/$8 for AcA members and are available at www.acadianacenterforthearts.org or at the door.
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, in partnership with the Acadiana Center for the Arts, will also present its closing day events on Sunday, Jan. 30 beginning at 12:00 noon at the AcA. Events include the screening of “Tootie’s Last Suit,” about the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians, along with a short film on the rural southwest Louisiana Mardi Gras at Tee-Mamou and a panel discussion on urban and rural Mardi Gras traditions moderated by esteemed French Louisiana folklorist Barry Ancelet. The Festival will also present on Sunday afternoon the Louisiana premiere of the documentary “Coals to Newcastle – The New Mastersounds: from Leeds to New Orleans,” with filmmaker Marca Hagenstad in attendance. The Festival will close on Sunday afternoon at AcA with the screening of Harry Shearer’s documentary on the flooding of New Orleans after Katrina, “The Big Uneasy,” with Mr. Shearer in attendance. All events on Sunday at AcA are free.
“Cinema on the Bayou is proud to include the Acadiana Center for the Arts and its state-of-the-art James Devin Moncus Theater as the opening and closing venue for this year’s festival,” said Artistic Director Pat Mire. “We look forward to working with Gerd and his staff this year and in years to come to introduce a wide variety of wonderful films and filmmakers to the Acadiana area.”
In addition to an evening of films at Pack and Paddle on Thursday and LITE on Friday, there will be a full day of films screened on Saturday at Cite des Arts, as well as Saturday and Sunday at the Lafayette Parish Public Library South Regional Branch. Films include Win Riley’s “Walker Percy: A Documentary Film,” Shreveporter William Joyce’s “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore,” Aaron Walker’s “Bury the Hatchet,” Tim Watson’s “The Music’s Gonna Get You Through,” Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin’s “Veins in the Gulf,” and distributor Carnivalesque Films’ “Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo,” “Citizen Architect,” and “Loot.” The Southern Culture Film Series includes the Louisiana premiere of “Fire In The Mountain” as well as “Me, My Father and the Hurricane.” The Narrative Shorts Series includes Louisiana premieres of French language films by Paris based filmmaker Josephine Mackerras and Texas based filmmaker Edward Tyndall. Belgian born filmmaker Jimmy Ferguson will present the Narrative Shorts Series of films and will introduce Ms. Mackerras’ films in both French and English.
Leave a Reply