The eight-day international, juried 18th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival will be held in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana from January 25 - February 1, 2023, and will include more than 175 Official Selection films. For complete information on selected films, schedules of film screenings in person and virtually, and Festival passes and tickets, visit the Cinema on the Bayou at https://18thcinemaonthebayou.eventive.org/welcome
In celebration of the Lafayette Parish Bicentennial, the festival kicks off on Wednesday, January 25th with the World Premiere screening of the documentary film, THE RAGIN’ 13, at 7:00 p.m. at Cité des Arts, 109 Rue Vine, Lafayette, Louisiana. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Nic Campbell and a gala reception honoring the members of the record-setting University of Louisiana National Olympic Weightlifting Teams. To purchase tickets, go to: https://18thcinemaonthebayou.eventive.org/schedule.
“Each year, Cinema on the Bayou brings to Acadiana the best in independent film, and the filmmakers who make those films, from across the United States and Canada and from around the world,” said Cinema on the Bayou Film Society President and Festival Founder and Creative Director Pat Mire. “This is a labor of love, one we do each year to add to the richness of the community, the culture and the film industry in Louisiana.”
Again this year, the Festival will screen films both in-person and on-line over the course of the eight-day Festival. The 2023 Festival lineup, which was chosen from a pool of hundreds of film submissions, consists of over 175 Official Selections, including narrative and documentary features, narrative and documentary shorts, and animated and experimental films. With the Festival’s ongoing emphasis on the Francophone communities around the world, we will screen 68 French language films. We also will have filmmakers in attendance from New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Montreal, and London, just to name a few, at in-person screenings throughout the Festival.
For more information on the films and schedule go to our website at www.cinemaonthebayou.com or https://18thcinemaonthebayou.eventive.org/films.
The Festival will close with the screening of ROOTS OF FIRE on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, at 8:00 p.m. at Cité des Arts, followed by a reception and music by T’Monde.
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. Sponsors for Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival include the Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission, Cité des Arts and the Lafayette Parish Bicentennial.
