Photo Courtesy of Lee CelanoCinema on the Bayou Film Society announces the feature film official selections for the 11th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, taking place January 20-27, 2016, at venues across the city. The festival kicks off on Wednesday, January 20th at the Acadiana Center for the Arts with the opening night film and gala party. The festival has expanded from five to eight-days and will feature nearly 200 official selections from COTB’s open call for submissions from independent filmmakers around the world.
“The word is out among independent filmmakers that we have a top notch film festival that is very competitive and super fun with great food and music,” says Cinema on the Bayou Film Society President and Creative Director Pat Mire, “and that means we bring really good films and the filmmakers who make them here to Acadiana each January for the benefit of the community, the culture and the film industry in Louisiana.”
The 2016 festival lineup was chosen from a total pool of more than 1,000 submissions, a record number for the festival, and includes 27 narrative features and 25 documentary features, the majority of which are World, U.S. or Louisiana Premieres. The festival lineup will also include 30 documentary short films, 98 narrative short films and 18 animated short films, the majority of which are also World, U.S. or Louisiana Premieres. Included within the official selections are more than 30 French-language films and 20 films from Japan, as well as films from Nepal, India, Australia, the Dominican Republic, the U.K., Algeria, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Argentina, Canada and France.
Over 200 directors, producers, distributors, actors and other industry professionals will attend the festival from across the United States and Canada, as well as from Australia, India, the U.K. and France.
“I am so proud of the quality and breadth of the films we will screen this year,” says festival Director Rebecca Hudsmith. “From the Canadian Yukon to the mountains of Nepal to the streets of Tokyo to the wetlands of Louisiana, these films present heartfelt stories that will entertain, yes, but will also enrich our lives.”
Cinema on the Bayou Film Society, a non-profit Section 501(c)(3) Louisiana corporation, presents the annual Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, Louisiana’s second oldest film festival, as well as other film events during the year. Major sponsors for Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival include the Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission and IATSE Local 478 – Motion Picture Studio Mechanics of Louisiana & Southern Mississippi.
A complete program, as well as festival passes and tickets, will be available on the festival website in late December.
Feature Film Official Selections
Narrative Features
Adaline / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Bidisha Chowdhury
Alienated / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Brian Ackley
A Remarkable Life / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Vohn Regensburger
Cesium and a Tokyo Girl / Japan / U.S. Premiere
Director: Ryo Saitani
Death On A Rock / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Scott Ballard
Dirty Beautiful / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Tim Bartell
DisAssociationVille / U.S.A.-Texas / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: James Christopher
Fête National (National Day) / Québec, Canada / World Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Victor Paré
Five Grand / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Directors: Tyler Graham Pavey and Orson Ossman
Ghosting / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Kevin Boon
Hier, Aujourd’hui, Hier (Yesterday, Today, Yesterday) / Québec, Canada / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Xavier Beauchesne-Rondeau
Intersection / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Tim French
. . . In the Dark / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: David Spaltro
Mandy / U.S.A.-Texas / World Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Adam Vermillion
Max Peril / U.S.A.-Mississippi
Director and Screenwriter: Frank Ladner
Owl River Runners / New Brunswick, Canada / U.S. Premiere
Director: Danny Thebeau
Par hazard en courant . . . (By chance while running . . .) / Québec, Canada / U.S. Premiere
Director: Jacques Loiselle
Suite Dreams / U.S.A.-Louisiana
Director: Emily Perla
Superior / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Edd Benda
The Boatman / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Greg Morgan
The David Dance / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Aprill Winney; Screenwriter: Don Scime
The End of Days, Inc. / Toronto, Canada / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Jennifer Liao
The Happiest Place on Earth / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: John Goshorn
The Incredible Adventures of Jojo (and his annoying little sister Avila) / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Directors: Ann-Marie Schmidt and Brian Schmidt
The Sand Box / U.S.A. / World Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Jennifer Kramer
The Three Es / U.S.A.
Director and Screenwriter: Jason Aaron Goldberg
Writer’s Cramp / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director and Screenwriter: Darva Campbell
Documentary Features
Accordions Rising / U.S.A. / World Premiere
Director: Roberta Cantow
After the Spill / U.S.A.
Director: Jon Bowermaster
Bastion of the Giants / India / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Sumesh Lekhi
Beyond Glory / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Larry Brand; Writer: Stephen Lang
Break the Branch / India/U.S.A. / U.S. Premiere
Director: Samantha Cornwell
By and By: New Orleans Gospel at the Crossroads / U.S.A.-Louisiana
Directors: Joe Compton and Matthew T. Bowden
By the River of Babylon: An Elegy for South Louisiana / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Don Howard
Chasing Bonnie & Clyde / France / Louisiana Premiere
Directors: Olivier Lambert and Thomas Salva
Cimarron Spirit / Dominican Republic/U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Ruben Duran
Diva – Enemy of the People / U.K. / U.S. Premiere
Director: Tony Oldham
La Belle At The Movies / U.K. / U.S. Premiere
Director: Cecilia Zoppelletto
Lance / France / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Laura Taubman
No. 2: Story of the Pencil / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director: William Allen
Spoke / Australia / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Em Baker
Sunakali / Nepal / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Bhojraj Bhat
The Phantasmagorical Clarence John Laughlin / U.S.A.-Louisiana
Director: Gene Fredericks
Un film de chasse de filles (Girls on the Hunt) / Québec, Canada / U.S. Premiere
Director: Julie Lambert
Voyagers Without A Trace / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Ian McCluskey
White Cliffs / Australia / World Premiere
Director: Georgina Savage
Yazoo Revisited: Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town / U.S.A.-Mississippi
Director: David Rae Morris
Yukon parle français / British Columbia, Canada / U.S. Premiere
Director: Jean Baillargeon
Zydeco Breakfast / U.S.A. / Southern U.S. Premiere
Director: Tom Uhl
0-41* / India / World Premiere
Director: Senna Hegde
7th Generation / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director: John-L Voth
100 Mules Walking The Los Angeles Aqueduct – Artist’s Cut 2015 / U.S.A. / Louisiana Premiere
Director: Bruce Dickson