On January 22, 2020, the 15th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival will kick off an incredible eight days of films and the filmmakers who make them with the World Premiere screening of WHEN WE KILL THE CREATORS, a film by Los Angeles-based writer/director Cynthia Mort and starring Grammy Award-Winning singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne. The film tells the story of a singer's improbable journey to reach her dreams, and when she does, the price she has paid. The film also features Ally Walker and Tony Joe White. All original songs were written for the film by Cynthia Mort and Shelby Lynne.
Ms. Lynne and Ms. Mort will attend the screening along with producer Jan O'Connell.
Come join us at the Vermilionville Performance Center for this Red Carpet event on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, at 6:30 p.m. The film screening will be followed by a gala reception with complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite using the Get Tickets button, above.
When We Kill The Creators Trailer
The Festival, which will screen nearly 200 films from across the United States and around the world, including over 50 French language films, will continue through January 29, 2020, at venues across Acadiana, including the Vermilionville Performance Center, Cite des Arts, the Acadiana Center for the Arts and the Lafayette Parish Library South Regional Branch in Lafayette and St. Landry Cinema in Opelousas.
The Festival will close on Wednesday evening, January 29, 2020, with the International Premiere of POUR MIEUX T'AIMER (TO BETTER LOVE YOU), a narrative feature film by Moncton-based directors Denise Bouchard and Gilles Doiron, who will be in attendance for the film screening. The film, which made its World Premiere at the Festival International du Cinema Francophone En Acadie in November, won the Leonard Forest Prize for Best Acadian Long Film.
Come join us at the Vermilionville Performance Center for this Red Carpet event on Wednesday, January 29, 2020, at 6:30 p.m. The film screening will be followed by a gala reception with complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite using the Get Tickets button, above.
A complete schedule of film screenings, filmmaker expert panels and social events will be posted in early January 2020. Festival passes are available for purchase now.
15th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival Official Selections - Feature Films
Narrative Features
Dérive (The Far Shore) / Canada (Longueuil) / 104 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: David Uloth
Effigie - Das Gift und die Stadt (Effigy - Poison and the City)/ Germany / 85 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Udo Flohr
Electric Swan / Greece / 40 min / Southern U.S. Premiere / Director: Konstantina Kotzamani
Empty Nester’s Handbook / U.S.A. (Texas) / 87 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: David N. Reyes
History of Love / Slovenia / 105 min / Southern U.S. Premiere / Director: Sonja Prosenc
Hydra / Japan / 77 min / Southern U.S. Premiere / Director: Kensuke Sonomura
Inside the Rain / U.S.A. / 90 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Aaron Fisher
La Cinta de Alex (Alex’s Strip) / Spain, India / 115 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: Irene Zoe Alameda
Les fleurs oubliées (Forgotten Flowers) / Canada (Montréal) / 102 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: André Forcier
Mad Dog Labine / Canada (Montréal) / 77 min / U.S. Premiere / Directors: Renaud Lessard, Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr
Moi sans toi (Me Without You) / Canada (Montréal) / 70 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: Guillaume Collin
Nipponia Nippon Fukushima Rhapsody / Japan / 112 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: Ryo Saitani
No Such Thing As Monsters / Australia / 95 min / U.S. Premiere/ Director: Stuart Stanton
Philophobia / United Kingdom / 125 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Guy Davies
Pour mieux t’aimer (To Better Love You) / Canada (Moncton) / 111 min / International Premiere / Directors: Denise Bouchard, Gilles Doiron
Romance Analyst / U.S.A. / 92 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Rachel Wortell
Spiral Farm / U.S.A. / 90 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Alec Tibaldi
The Last Earth Girl / U.S.A. / 93 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Jim Weter
Things I Do For Money / Canada (Toronto) / 89 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: Warren P. Sonoda
Tokyo Offerings Flower / Japan / 83 min / Southern U.S. Premiere / Director: Masaya Kato
When We Kill The Creators / U.S.A. / 95 min / World Premiere / Director: Cynthia Mort
Wretch / U.S.A. / 85 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Matthew Dunehoo
Documentary Features
Avec un sourire la revolution (And With A Smile, The Revolution) / Canada / 87 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: Alexandre Chartrand
Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story / U.S.A. / 87 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Julie Sokolow
Des histoires inventées (Imaginary Tales) / Canada (Québec) / 71 min / International Premiere / Director: Jean Marc E. Roy
Entre mer et mur (A Wall Within) / Canada (Montréal) / 75 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: Catherine Veaux-Logeat
Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous / France / 118 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: Olivier Morel
Felix In Wonderland / Germany, France / 50 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Marie Losier
Last Night I Saw You Smiling / Cambodia / 78 min / Southern U.S. Premiere / Director: Kavich Neang
Le prince de l’acadie / Canada (Moncton) / 48 min / U.S. Premiere / Directors: Gilles Doiron, Julien Robichaud
Les Coasters (Coasters) / Canada (Québec) / 85 min / International Premiere / Directors: Nicolas-Alexandre Tremblay, Stéphane Trottier
Life After Life / U.S.A. / 63 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Christopher Boulton
Patrinell: The Total Experience / U.S.A. / 94 min / Louisiana Premiere / Directors: TiaYoung, Andrew Elizaga
Que l’amour (When Love Is All You Have) / France / 80 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: Laetitia Mikles
ruth weiss, the beat goddess / U.S.A. / 85 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Melody C. Miller
The Condor & The Eagle / U.S.A. / 79 min / Louisiana Premiere / Directors: Sophie Guerra, Clement Guerra
The Raven and the Seagull / Denmark / 71 min / Louisiana Premiere / Director: Lasse Lau
Un homme sage-femme (Midwife Man) / Canada (Québec) / 64 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: Martine Asselin
Vague d’Acadie (Acadian Music Wave) / Canada (Montréal) / 100 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: Phil Comeau
Vaillancourt: regard si c’est beau (Vaillancourt: Isn’t It Beautiful) / Canada (Québec) / 80 min / U.S. Premiere / Director: John Blouin
The 15th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, an annual international juried Film Festival, will be held on January 22-29, 2020, at venues in and around Lafayette, Louisiana. Come join us for the screening of nearly 200 independent films, along with the filmmakers who make them, from across the United States and around the world. The World, U.S. and Louisiana Premieres will include narrative and documentary features, and narrative, documentary, animated and experiemental shorts. All-Access Passes can be purchased through Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-cinema-on-the-bayou-film-festival-tickets-77756057461. Individual tickets, day-passes and tickets for the opening and closing night films and receptions will go on sale in December. A description of all films and a complete schedule of film screenings and events will be post on our web site in early January, 2020. See you in January!!!
Photo courtesy of Shannon Murray, star of RAG DOLL, which won a Best Narrative Feature Award at COTB 2019 along with Ms. Murray's Best Actor Award.
Lafayette, LA, February 3, 2019. After 8 days and over 180 films screened, including 41 feature-length narrative fiction and documentary films and 140 short films, among them narrative, documentary, animated and experimental films, the 2019 Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival announces its "goujon caille" award winners. The films and filmmakers listed below represent the best of international independent cinema, and we are proud to have shared them with our audiences in Acadiana and to support them as they continue on their creative journeys. Notably, two of our narrative short award winners – Marguerite (Best Narrative Short Award) and Fauve (Narrative Short Special Jury Award), both out of Québec – are nominated for an Oscar in this year’s Short Film (Live Action) category. Also, of the 25 award-winning films, 13 were directed by women.
"Once again, we made new friends and greeted old friends, some of the best storytellers I know," said Pat Mire, the Festival's Founder and Artstic Director. "I am proud to know and give support to these artists, and I am also proud that Cinema on the Bayou provides such a nurturing environment for their continued development."
2019 CINEMA ON THE BAYOU FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS
Narrative Feature Winners
Special Jury – Two Pictures / Seattle, U.S.A. – Director and Writer: Eric Stone, Producer: Nate Stone (both in attendance)
Special Jury - Palace / Indiana, U.S.A. – Director, Writer and Producer: Andrew Paul Davis (in attendance)
Best - Ailleurs (Elsewhere) / Québec, Canada – Director: Samuel Matteau
Best - Rag Doll - Los Angeles, USA – Director: Bailey Kobe, Producers: Shannon Murray (and lead actor), Kate Sloate (all in attendance)
Narrative Short Winners
Special Jury - Madina, IA / U.S.A., Lebanon – Director: Yumna Marwan (in attendance)
Special Jury - Duck Duck Goose / Nova Scotia, Canada – Director: Shelley Thompson
Special Jury - First Disco / Ireland – Director, Writer and Producer: Helen M. O Reilly
Special Jury - Novela Picaresca / Japan – Director Kenji Qurata, Producer and Lead Actor: Takashi Yuki (in attendance)
Special Jury – Fauve / Montréal, Canada – Director and Writer: Jérémy Comte
Special Jury - Ange & Ovni (Angel & Alien) / Québec, Canada – Director and Writer: Sandrine Béchade (in attendance)
Best – Marguerite / Montréal, Canada – Director and Writer: Marianne Farley
Best Actor
Shannon Murray (in attendance) for Rag Doll / Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Documentary Feature
Special Jury - New York Scherzo / U.S.A./France – Director and Producer: Shaan Couture (in attendance)
Special Jury - Thank You For Supporting The Arts / Portland, U.S.A. – Directors: Carolann Stoney and W. Alexander Jones (in attendance along with subject Liv Osthus)
Best - And Those Who Dance It Surrender Their Hearts To Each Other / Los Angeles, U.S.A. – Director: Cody Edison (in attendance)
Documentary Shorts
Special Jury - La Frontière (The Frontier) / Québec, Canada – Director, Writer and Producer: Félix Lamarche (in attendance)
Special Jury - L'île (The Island) / Québec, Canada – Director and Writer: Alexandra Guité (in attendance)
Best - Dans la Cour de Vivianne Gauthier (In the Heart of Vivianne Gauthier) / Québec, Canada,Haiti – Director: Marie-Claude Fournier (in attendance)
Animated Shorts
Special Jury - The Prodigal / Thailand – Director and Writer: Tod Polson, Producers Tod Polson and Brett Boesch (in attendance)
Best - My Yiddish Papi / Montréal, Canada – Director and Writer: Éléonore Goldberg
Experimental Shorts - The Robert Russet Award
Best - Mise au Monde (Carrying One) / Québec, Canada – Director, Writer and Producer: Maryse Goudreau (in attendance)
Le Train Bleu
Black Indians / France – Directors and Writers: Jo Beranger, Hugues Poulain and Edith Patrouilleau (in attendance)
Inspiration
La Veille (The Visit) / New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Director and Writer: Marshall Woodworth (in attendance)
Audience
Cajun and Creole: Black and White / Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Director and Writer: Chantelle Trahan, Producers: Chantelle Trahan, Horace Trahan (both in attendance)
Director's Choice
Finding Cajun / Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Director and Writer: Nathan Rabalais, Producers: David and Nathan Rabalais (both in attendance)
French director Shaan Couture holds her "goujon caiile" on the bayou.
