new orleans film festival 2013

OCTOBER 10-172013

24th Annual

New Orleansfilm festival

While we’re celebrating more than 200 talented filmmakers who are attending and showing here at the festival, we would like to take a moment to honor these industry pioneers.

What began as after-school work in his family’s silent movie house became an active career in the industry that spanned seven decades. With Doris by his side, Teddy grew his family’s single movie screen into more than 600 theaters and drive-ins spread across the country.

He was elected president of the National Association of Theatre Owners, where he led the reform of film bidding practices that continue to shape the industry. He built and opened the first stadium-style megaplex in Greater New Orleans. He was also the catalyst that established the popular tax incentive programs for filmmakers that have made Louisiana known as “Hollywood South.”

And, nearly a quarter of a century ago, Teddy and Doris helped start the New Orleans Film Society.

What inspired them to become so involved and invested in the movie business? It was the talent, passion and hard work of filmmakers like you. It gave Teddy and Doris great joy to share their love for movies with countless others.

Because when the lights dim and the projector rolls in a darkened theater...it’s pure magic.

Not All Movie Stars Shine In Front Of The Camera

Teddy and Doris Solomon built a theatre empire.

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4 FREE SCREENINGS 4Some Velvet Morning 65Sparkle 87Spooners 81StandUp 80Steve Chong Finds Out 65Suicide Is a Bad Idea Stones in the Sun 67Straight Down Low 81Stranger by the Lake 67The Sunshine Egg 82Suitcase of Love and Shame 67Summer Suit 79The Swimmer 79Tailypo 82They Glow In the Dark 69Things Found on the Ground 69This Is It 87Tiny Tape Recorder 79Tokyo Halloween Night 78Touchy Feely 69Tough Bond 70Towheads 70Tradition Is a Temple 70Upaj: Improvise 71VARMiNT 79VIrtual Virtuoso 83(Virtuos Virtuell)Visitors 71The Wand 85A Warehouse on 71Tchoupitoulas Wash Song 87Water Like Stone 72We Could Be Your Parents 81Wednesday 85Well-Fed 81What I Hate About Myself 81What the Cluck? 87When We Lived in Miami 29, 83The Whole Gritty City 16, 72Whole New Person 81A Will for the Woods 72Would You Be Kind 78to Leave, Sir? Yeah, Kowalski! 87You Make Me Feel So Young 73Young Lakota 73Your Day Is My Night 29, 73

> Tuesday, October 15 | Sundown (around 7:00 p.m.) Lafayette Square | Camp and South Maestri Streets

Take in some classic Coen Brothers fare under the stars with this special screening of the 1987 classic starring New Orleans bon vivant Nicolas Cage. Vowing to go straight, a convenience store bandit (Cage) proposes marriage to the police department’s photographer (Holly Hunter). All is wedded bliss until they discover she’s unable to get pregnant and are turned down by every adoption agency in town. It does not take long before they realize the only solution is to kidnap one of the town’s celebrated quintuplets and hit the road! Bring a chair or blanket and get comfy!

MOVIES TO GEAUX: RAISING ARIZONA OUTDOOR SCREENING

FREE SCREENINGS THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL

I I THURSDAY I FRIDAY I SATURDAY I SUNDAY I MONDAY I TUESDAY I WEDNESDAY I THURSDAY

The New Black p. 56

Twee Love p. 81

One Chance p. 57

Confrontations p. 78

Fitting In / Standing Outp. 79

Raising Arizona

Your Day is My Night p. 73

Headspace p. 79

Casual Encounters p. 78

Borscht Corp Shorts p. 83

EDUCATION / OUTREACH

On a budget? No excuses! Enjoy the Fest while giving your wallet some much-needed breathing room. There’s at least one free screening per day of the Festival. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Now in its second year, our education program is a free, youth-focused film series for high school students from New Orleans public schools that affords local students the opportunity to interact with film. Students will view and analyze films broadening their knowlege of digital media wihle learning about important social issues. Filmmakers will be there for an in-depth Q + A after the film, focusing on the production process, and offering an education experience beyond the classroom. Students will further benefit from visiting the New Orleans Film Festival, the Contemporary Arts Center, and the Cinema Reset Gallery.

MMXIII p. 56

Hasta Nunca p. 49

Upaj: Improvise p. 71

Curiouser & Curiouser p. 78

Trailers Screening all day at CAC

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This program is supported in part by Community Arts Grants funding made possible by the City of New Orleansand administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans.

Supported in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency.

CONTRIBUTING

Creative America

PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS

LEAD MEDIA SPONSOR

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GRANTORS

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THANK YOU TO OUR GALA COMMITTEE + SUPPORTERS

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FESTIVAL PARTNERS

Ashé Cultural Arts CenterContemporary Arts CenterClandestine New OrleansCreative Alliance of New Orleans (CANO)Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association (LFEA)

New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)NOVACNOLA Fugees Press / ProductionsPeople Say ProjectWomen in Film and Television Louisiana (WIFT-LA)

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4 HOW TO FEST FAQS 4>Do I have to pick up a physical pass at the box office if I purchased it online?If you purchased an All-Access Pass, you must pick up your pass at the Main Box Office (at the CAC, 900 Camp Street). Please wear your All-Access Pass to all NOFF events as this pass will grant you entry to parties, receptions, the Filmmaker Lounge, and the priority access line for all screenings. If you purchased a Six Film Pass or a Deluxe Six Film Pass, you are not required to present a pass. You may just print your reserved tickets at home and present them at the door.

>I have an All-Access Pass. Can I simply flash my badge and get into a movie?We recommend that all passholders reserve tickets for all screenings in advance, but if there is availability at the venue, All-Access Passholders can enter the screening, simply by having the barcode on their pass scanned.

>Can I share my Festival Pass?No. All passes (All-Access, Six Film Deluxe, and Six Film) are non-transferable. Your name will be written on your pass, and ID may be required when securing tickets. Your pass entitles you to only one ticket per individual screening (for All-Access, Six Film and Deluxe Six Film Passes). The only pass that may be shared is a “Guest of” pass that is an option for festival sponsors and dual NOFS memberships.

>Can I get student rush tickets in advance?No. These tickets will go on sale only after all regular ticketholders are seated in a theatre and open seats remain. You must present a valid student ID to be able to purchase rush tickets.

>Why can’t I purchase an individual ticket online for Opening Night?We are excited about holding our Opening Night screening at the Civic Theatre. However, the demand for this event far exceeds the venue’s capacity. Attending NOFF filmmakers, NOFF sponsors, Film Society donors (Producers Circle, Movie Mogul, and Scene Stealer members), and All-Access passholders have priority access to this event. Only All-Access Passholders may claim a ticket for Opening Night in advance. Given the anticipated demand for this event, we highly recommend that All-Access passholders reserve tickets in advance to avoid waiting in line or arriving too late to secure a seat. These tickets are available on a first-come first-serve basis to All-Access Passholders. You may reserve a ticket online or at the Main Box Office. To guarantee a seat, you MUST reserve one in advance. We do anticipate selling a limited number of General Admission tickets at the door, based on availability. The Civic Theatre Box Office will open at 6:00 p.m. at which time customers may begin lining up for these limited tickets. Any available seats will be sold shortly before the film begins.

>I was told that no more tickets were being sold to a movie I really want to see? Is there any way to still get tickets? Usually, the answer is yes. Even though all tickets in a given theatre may be reserved, there are usually tickets that go unclaimed. We strongly recommend that you show up for the screening and inquire at the box office for a waitlist number—these will start being handed out 30 minutes before the start of the film and will be numbered (the first person requesting one will have a “1” on their card, the second person a “2”). Five minutes before the start of the film, we will begin selling unclaimed tickets to waitlist number holders in sequential order. (If you are not there when waitlist numbers are called, you forfeit your place in line to purchase an unclaimed ticket.) In general, never give up hope until the venue manager announces that the screening is at capacity and turns away those with waitlist numbers.

>I want to purchase tickets online in advance, but I don’t have a printer at home. What do I do?You may still purchase tickets online and visit any NOFF Box Office to have your tickets printed. Simply present a photo I.D. or an NOFS membership card. Each ticket will have a unique barcode, and may only be scanned once for admission.

>What methods of payment are accepted at the Festival Box Offices?All Festival Box Offices accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card and cash. Checks are not accepted.

>I purchased a Festival Pass, but I lost it. Can I get a new one?No. There are no replacements for lost passes.

>I can’t find my Print-at-Home tickets. What do I do?Visit any NOFF Box Office and upon presenting your photo I.D. or NOFS membership card your tickets will be re-printed.

>I’m a NOFS member. How many tickets may I reserve at the member price for an individual screening?You may reserve only one ticket per screening at the member price. Encourage your friends and family to join NOFS and they too can take advantage of the member discount!

>What if I am late to the screening?To guarantee seating, you must be at the venue five minutes before the start of the film, even if you have an actual ticket. If you are not at the venue five minutes beforehand, there is no guarantee you will be able to get in the theatre and your purchase will not be refunded. We will start to sell all unclaimed seats in the venue starting five minutes before the start of the film.

>Are venues accessible?All venues are wheelchair accessible.

>Can I get a refund or exchange for a ticket that I’ve purchased?No, all ticket and pass sales are final. There are no refunds or exchanges.

>I don’t have an All-Access Pass but I would like to attend NOFF Parties. Can I purchase tickets to get into Festival parties?Consult the Parties and Events section (pages 16-17) to learn more about which parties are open to the general public.

>Why is there a barcode on my pass?We will have scanners at all Festival events in order to scan the passes of all attendees. This enables us to track Festival attendance more precisely.

>How do I use the barcode on my membership card?When buying tickets and passes at the box office, simply present your membership card and it will be scanned to access your member account. All purchases will be attached to your individual account. You will then be able to see your purchase history when accessing your member account online.

>Are my member number and pass number the same?Producers Circle, Movie Moguls, Screen Idols, and Scene Stealers will be able to use their member number as their pass number. All other levels of membership have a separate pass number from their member number. When you login online, you will be able to choose pass or membership access. Choose pass access to reserve tickets.

MORE QUESTIONS?If you have any problems or questions regarding ticketing, or any other inquiries, you can e-mail us at: [email protected] or reach us by phone at 504-309-6633.

WHAT’S DIFFERENT THIS YEAR?> Purchasing tickets through the NOFF Mobile App

FREE for iPhone users at www.neworleansfilmsociety.org/app/

> Discounted rush tickets for students, based on availability

> Deluxe Six-Film Pass will include the Closing Night Movie (not Opening Night)

> Scanning tickets on mobile devices will not be an option

> Each pass will have an individual barcode that can be scanned

> Pass number will be the same as your NOFS membership number

> New member cards can be scanned at the box office to access member’s account

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FILMMAKER WELCOME PARTY: AN EVENING ON ESPLANADE

> Friday, October 11 | 10:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.Sixteen19 New Orleans - French Quarter Film House | 807 Esplanade

Soak up the ambience of this 1859 mansion turned post-production studio, French Quarter Film House. Rumored to be the most expensive home in New Orleans at the time of its construction, this building is full of history and on this night, it will host NOFF’s most special guests: our 2013 class of 200+ filmmakers. Nosh on delicious bites and imbibe refreshing cocktails while listening to live music in a charming courtyard. Food and drinks provided by Café Amelie. After the party, continue your night with a stroll on nearby Frenchmen Street, a bustling two-block stretch known for live, authentic music of all varieties.

THIS PARTY IS OPEN TO ALL-ACCESS PASSHOLDERS ONLY

Sponsored by:

WORLD PREMIERE PARTY:THE WHOLE GRITTY CITY

> Saturday, October 12Film Screening at 6:30 p.m. | Reception at 8:15 - 9:15 p.m. Contemporary Arts Center Theatre and Atrium | 900 Camp Street

Celebrate the world premiere of documentary The Whole Gritty City (Dir. Richard Barber), a film that tells the story of three New Orleans marching bands as they push to prepare for Mardi Gras parades. Enjoy live performances of the music at the heart of this film, with O. Perry Walker’s “The Chosen Ones” Brass Band filling the CAC’s atrium with their joyful sounds at the premiere party for this much-awaited film. Light refreshments will be served.

THIS PARTY IS OPEN TO THE WHOLE GRITTY CITY TICKETHOLDERS AND ALL-ACCESS PASSHOLDERS ONLY

STEP RIGHT UP...TO THE BOUNCE HOUSEFEATURING MUSICAL GUEST SISSY NOBBY

> Saturday, October 12 | 10:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.Generations Hall | 310 Andrew Higgins Drive

You won’t want to miss this year’s NOFF Saturday night party spectacular, our largest party of the Festival. Join our carnival of fun; we’ve got free food, complimentary drinks, games, as well as special Bounce performances by Sissy Nobby and DJQ.

FREE ADMISSION FOR ALL-ACCESS PASSHOLDERS, $5 ADMISSION FOR FILM SOCIETY + LFEA MEMBERS (AT THE BOX OFFICE AND AT THE DOOR ONLY), $10 GENERAL ADMISSION

Sponsored by

COMING SOON: MOVIEHOUSE NOLA PARTY

> Sunday, October 13 | 10:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.The Saratoga | 212 Loyola Avenue

A celebration of the New Orleans Film Society, a teaser of the upcoming exhibition Moviehouse NOLA, and an opportunity to say goodbye to opening weekend of the New Orleans Film Festival. Enjoy atmospheric projections of New Orleans’ movie-going past while dancing to the sounds of DJ Amanda Brinkman (Pelican Bomb / The Drop). Capture the night in the “Coming Soon” photo booth, which makes you the star of film genres like smut, gangster, and southern gothic. Hosted by Pelican Bomb / The Drop and Moviehouse NOLA.

THIS PARTY IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Sponsored by:

Creative America

Sponsored by:

With Sixteen19

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DRINK SPECIALS AT BELLOCQ:THE OFFICIAL NOFF HANGOUT

Open to All-Access Passholders October 10-13 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.The Scene Magazine Filmmaker Lounge offers the ultimate location for All-Access passholders to rest and refuel in between screenings throughout the festival. The Lounge will play host to special receptions and happy hours (see below). The Filmmaker Lounge is open only to All-Access Passholders only.

SCENE MAGAZINE HAPPY HOURJoin the staff of Scene Magazine as they host a networking event/mixer for members of the local film community and visiting NOFF filmmakers. Come eat, drink, mingle, and celebrate the kickoff of the New Orleans Film Festival! Open to the All-Access passholders.> Thursday, October 10 at 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

OUTAKES QUEER FILM MEET-UPConnect with other LGBTQ filmmakers and film professionals during this special happy hour celebrating OUTakes. Open to the public.> Friday, October 11 at 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

CANOpener Reception*takes place in the CAC’s Spun CaféStop by the CAC’s Spun Cafe to join the Creative Alliance of New Orleans for a CANOpener. This is a chance for you to meet new and familiar faces in the film, video, and other creative industries in New Orleans. Share ideas and come up with new ones with CANO as your host! Refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you there. Open to the public, but limited space is available.> Friday, October 11 at 3:00 p.m.

WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION LOUISIANA (WIFT-LA) HAPPY HOURAfter WIFT’s panel, head on down to the Scene Magazine Filmmaker Lounge and raise a toast to women directors at this year’s Festival. Learn more about upcoming WIFT-LA programs and membership. Open to All-Access passholders, WIFT-LA and WIFTI members. If you are a Women in Film Member, please rsvp to: [email protected]> Saturday, October 12 at 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

LOUISIANA FILM AND ENTERTAINMENT ASSOCIATION (LFEA) RECEPTIONFollowing the “Mapping the Future of Film in Louisiana” discussion, join the Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association (LFEA) for a special reception celebrating the thriving film industry in our state. Special legislative guests in attenance. Open to the public.> Saturday, October 12 at 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

CINEMA RESET PARTYAfter the Experimental Shorts screening, enjoy a chance to mingle with Cinema Reset filmmakers and curators while celebrating the second installment of this new media showcase. Open to the public.> Saturday, October 12 at 10:45 - 11:30 p.m.

STORIES FROM THE GULF RECEPTIONCelebrate two films telling timely stories about the Gulf, “Can’t Stop the Water” and Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek. With live music and refreshments. Supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures. Open to the public.> Sunday, October 13 at 3:15 - 4:00 p.m.

HEY BARTENDER SCREENING AND RECEPTION

> Monday, October 14Film Screening at 8:15 p.m. | N.O. Premiere Reception 10:00 - 11:00 p.m. Contemporary Arts Center Theatre and Atrium | 900 Camp Street

Calling all cocktail enthusiasts: this is the event for you! Check out Hey Bartender, a documentary that chronicles the rebirth of the bartender and the comeback of the cocktail. A bevy of craft cocktails that will be flowing this evening. Enjoy a complimentary cocktail before the film and linger after the screening where the team from William Grant & Sons will serve unforgettable drinks featuring Hendrick’s Gin, Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum, Milagro Tequila, Lillet, and Reyka Vodka. Bartender Charlotte Voisey, featured in the film, will be on hand mixing along with Steve Schneider, Jaime Salas, and Amanda Boccato.

THIS PARTY IS OPEN TO HEY BARTENDER TICKETHOLDERS AND ALL-ACCESS PASSHOLDERS ONLY

Sponsored by:

MOVIES TO GEAUX:RAISING ARIZONA OUTDOOR SCREENING



THIS SCREENING IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

*FILMMAKER LOUNGE MUSIC IN THE FILMMAKER LOUNGE PROVIDED BY LOUISIANA MUSIC FACTORY AND VEN PA’CA.

sponsored by

Stop in at Bellocq between screenings, for happy hour, or after hours. Mention NOFF for these drink specials offered throughout the Festival:

$5 Glasses of Champagne

$5.50 Champagne Cocktail

$5.50 Port Cobbler

At The Hotel Modern936 St. Charles Avenue

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- ALL PANELS + CONVERSATIONS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC -

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONMapping The Future of Film in Louisiana

Saturday, October 12> 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Rehearsal Hall at the Contemporary Arts Center (Second Floor)

Louisiana’s role as an alternative to the traditional centers of film and television production has been much ballyhooed by both local and national media in the past several years, even catching the eye of travel reporters across the pond, with the BBC showcasing Louisiana’s production boom this past August. Having succeeded at attracting large-scale film productions, now we must pursue the best direction forward: how can the filmmakers, business owners, and legislators involved in our industry build on this promising start while ensuring sustainability in the years to come? Senate Resolution 132, adopted during the recent legislative session, created the Entertainment Industry Advisory Commission and empowered it to make official suggestions by 2015 for ways to make the film and entertainment industry in Louisiana more self-sustaining. This roundtable seeks to kick off the work of the Commission by eliciting ideas and suggestions from the public. Be a part of the conversation and have your ideas heard.

Reception to follow in the Filmmaker Lounge, hosted by the Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association

PANELISTS:

ANDRE CHAMPAGNE is founder and CEO of Hollywood Trucks, LLC, the largest entertainment transportation company in the southeastern U.S., and founder of Scene Magazine.

WILL FRENCH is the co-founder and President of Film Production Capital, which provides tax incentive-based financing to the domestic motion picture industry. He is also President of the LFEA Board. JEAN-PAUL J. MORRELL represents the 3rd District as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate. He authored Louisiana Senate Resolution 132, which provides for an advisory committee to guide the future of the entertainment tax incentive program.

CHRIS STELLY joined Louisiana’s fledgling entertainment tax incentive program in 2004. He is now the Executive Director of Louisiana Entertainment.

MELISSA WISEMAN is a Manager of EP Financial Solutions. She is also part of the Entertainment Industry Advisory Committee appointed by LFEA.

CALL & RESPONSE: Post-Disaster Storytelling on the Gulf Coast

Sunday, October 13> 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Rehearsal Hall at the Contemporary Arts Center (Second Floor)

When a region is in the grip of a disaster, there is a natural call to tell stories of destruction and survival, and through them find the power, the political positioning, and the humanity to rebuild, restore, and reclaim home. How do we find a place for these stories as acts of resurgence alongside the brick-and-mortar projects of a material recovery? Can films and interactive online digital projects, long-form journalism, non-fiction and fiction alike, help communities find their voice, become more resilient, and prepare for the next disaster? This panel is an opportunity to explore the call of the story—from the perspective of the filmmakers adding to the growing body of post-disaster media-making in the Gulf and the funders who supported their projects.

With support from Chicken & Egg Pictures

PANELISTS:

WILLIAM BUSTER is the director of Mississippi and New Orleans programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

LUISA DANTAS is the producer/director of the LandofOpportunity project. She also co-produced the acclaimed web-series Voices From the Gulf for ColorofChange.

DERRICK EVANS is an Advisory Group member at the Gulf Coast Fund, a grant-making institution that supports progressive movement building in the Gulf Coast region. He is also founder and ED of Turkey Creek Community Initiatives.

REBECCA FERRIS is the director of “Can’t Stop the Water.” Previously, she worked as a staff producer with the renowned documentary film company, Pennebaker Hegedus Films. LEAH MAHAN is a documentary filmmaker and director of COME HELL OR HIGH WATER: THE BATTLE FOR TURKEY CREEK. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, ITVS, and The Ford Foundation.

And a co-founder from Chicken & Egg Pictures.

INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING WITH LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

Sunday, October 13> 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Rehearsal Hall at the Contemporary Arts Center (Second Floor)

This panel explores the burgeoning field of interactive documentary and how it breaks boundaries to engage audiences in new and provocative ways. The discussion will feature Luisa Dantas, producer/director of LandofOpportunity, an upcoming interactive video platform featuring multimedia narratives about urban America through the lens of post-Katrina New Orleans. Additional topics include navigating the transition from traditional “linear” filmmaking to interactive web-based content, and the collaboration between filmmakers and technologists.

With support from Chicken & Egg Pictures

PANELISTS:

LINDSEY PHILLIPS (moderator) is a freelance editor and videographer. Having served previously as the Cinema Reset Eduction Coordinator, she is currently the Director of Cinema Reset, an experimental film initiative focused on new media exhibition, educational workshops, and film screenings. She has also worked for the New Orleans Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival.

LUISA DANTAS is the producer/director of the LandofOpportunity project. She also co-produced the acclaimed documentary, WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF THE LOW PRICE, and produced/directed the web-series Voices From the Gulf for ColorofChange.

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FELIX ENDARA is an Ecuador-born, New York–based independent filmmaker and curator whose films have screened at festivals including Berlin, Frameline, Outfest, and Mill Valley. From 2008 to 2012, he programmed Arts Engine’s works-in-progress documentary film screening series DocuClub. In 2010, he was a fellow at the IFP Documentary Finishing Lab as producer for Wildness, which premiered at MoMa’s Documentary Fortnight series in February 2012, and was an official selection at SXSW.

ALLISON KOBAYASHI is a visual artist working in video, performance, installation, and drawing. She has exhibited and screened work widely in North America and overseas at venues such as Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Jakarta International Film Festival, The Power Plant Contemporary, Anthology Film Archives, Bilbao International Film Festival, and The Flaherty International Film Seminar. In 2012 she was commissioned by Les Subsistances to develop and stage her first live performance. Her video work is distributed by VTape in Toronto.

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS JURY

JAN-ERIK MAAS is a classic stop-motion animator. Originally from Germany, he received a degree in animation in Norway and spent his early training years working on TV series like Pingu and Bob The Builder in the UK. He went on to work for films like Peter and the Wolf (winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short), and the Oscar-nominated features Coraline, Paranorman, and The Pirates! He is currently working for Laika on their feature project The Boxtrolls, which will be released next summer.

QUIQUE RIVERA is a Puerto Rican artist and filmmaker specializing in stop motion animation. His award winning films have been screened at multiple festivals internationally including Ottawa International Animation Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, Slamdance, Raindance, and NOFF, where his short “Lionfish Delusion” won the jury prize for Best Animated Short. Rivera is currently pursuing an MFA degree in Experimental Animation at CalArts where he received the LAIKA Annual Scholarship 2013-2014 and was a member of the 2013 CILECT Awards Selection Committee.

ANIMATION SHORTS JURY

CULLEN CONLY is a motion picture literary agent at ICM Partners. He had previously been manager of the Feature Film Program of the Sundance Institute, where he was involved in selection and project support for the Screenwriters Labs, Directors Labs, and the New Frontier Story Labs. Among the filmmakers he helped nurture are Beasts Of The Southern Wild’s Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin and Nobody Walks’ Lena Dunham and Ry Russo-Young. Before Sundance, Conly worked in development and production at Paramount Vantage.

MICHAEL GOTTWALD is a producer whose credits have included Court 13’s “Glory at Sea” and the multiple Oscar–nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild (winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Camera d’Or at Cannes). Michael also produced documentary filmmakers the Ross Brothers’ second feature, Tchoupitoulas, which premiered at SXSW and was distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories. Currently, he’s producing the Brothers’ third feature, Western, as well as Ping Pong Summer, an 80s-era coming of age comedy, directed by Michael Tully.

NARRATIVE FEATURES JURY

DONAL MOSHER is a filmmaker, photographer, writer, and musician. He is the co-director, along with Michael Palmieri, of the documentary feature October Country, which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary and screened at the L.A. Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, and won the top US feature prize at Silverdocs. Their second feature Off Label premiered earlier this year at Tribeca and is now in theaters. Their short film “Rougarouing” (about Cajun Mardi Gras) screens at this year’s NOFF.

SADIE TILLERY is the Director of Programming of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Now in its 17th year, the four-day festival showcases 100 documentaries each April, attracting filmmakers and film lovers to downtown Durham, North Carolina. Sadie joined the Programming Department in 2005 and became Director in 2008. She has been fortunate to collaborate with many talented guest curators during her tenure, including Steve James, Julia Reichert, Ross McElwee, and Sam Pollard.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES JURY

ROYA RASTEGAR is an artist, curator, and scholar. She co-wrote Wildness (2012), which premiered at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight Festival and received a Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. She has served on the programming teams of Sundance, Tribeca, and L.A. Film Festival. Rastegar earned a doctorate in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, under the guidance of Angela Davis. She is a recent Creative Capital grantee in Emerging Fields, and currently a visiting professor and postdoctoral fellow at Bryn Mawr College.

DEBRA ZIMMERMAN has been the Executive Director of Women Make Movies, a NY-based non-profit film organization that supports women filmmakers, since 1983. During her tenure it has grown into the world’s largest distributor of films by and about women. Earlier this year, she was the recipient of Hot Doc’s 2013 Doc Mogul Award, given to someone who “over the course of their career has made an essential contribution to the creative vitality of the documentary industry, both in his or her country or abroad.”

LYNNE SACHS makes films, videos, installations, and web projects that explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. Since 2006, she has collaborated with her partner Mark Street in a series of mixed-media performance collaborations they call The XY Chromosome Project. Lynne’s films have screened at the NYFF, Sundance, and Toronto’s Images Festival as well as a five-film survey at the Buenos Aires Film Festival. Lynne teaches experimental film and video at New York University and The New School. She lives in Brooklyn.

STEVEN SHWEIKART holds an MFA in animation/visual effects from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He’s been working in production management for feature visual effects and animated films for over 10 years, five of which have been spent supervising lighting production for Dreamworks Animation on such films as How To Train Your Dragon, Megamind, and The Croods. Other film credits include visual effects production on Elf, The Rundown, Scooby Doo 2, Garfield, The Ring 2, and Fantastic Four. He spends what little free time he has working as an illustrator, animator, and visual/performance artist.

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MARI KORNHAUSER is an award-winning independent filmmaker and a professor of screenwriting at LSU. Recently she was a writer for the HBO series TREME and had a reality TV pilot shot for A&E. She also wrote and co-produced two independent features, Zandalee, starring Nicolas Cage, and The Last Ride, starring Mickey Rourke. She also wrote and directed Housebound, starring Peter Sarsgaard, which premiered at SXSW. Currently, Mari is writing and directing a micro budget film scheduled to shoot winter 2014.

KELLY LEOW was born and raised in Singapore. She moved to Los Angeles to study English at UCLA and has lived in California ever since, currently serving as Associate Editor of MovieMaker Magazine. Her writing credits include award-winning essays on the Divine Comedy, bad sex scenes in HBO’s Girls, and MovieMaker’s 2013 Guide to Video-on-Demand Distribution. She aims to make independent filmmaking more rewarding, but not easier (where’s the fun in that?), one article at a time.

LOUISIANA FEATURES JURY

MATT BRENNAN is a film critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in L.A. Weekly, Bright Lights Film Journal, Thought Catalog, and other publications. He currently contributes to Thompson on Hollywood!, an Indiewire blog, and is pursuing a Ph.D in U.S. history at Tulane University. Born in the Boston area and a graduate of the USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, he moved to New Orleans four years ago to work as a public schoolteacher. Like so many transplants to the city, he has no plans to leave any time soon.

MAGGIE HADLEIGH-WEST is an internationally recognized filmmaker and social justice activist. Since 2002 the U.S. Department of Defense has used her work to educate all branches of the military on issues of sexism and sexual harassment. Earlier this year, she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Award, and has also received a 2010 Accolade Award, was a 2000 Rockefeller Fellow Nominee, and a nominee of the 1998 Caligari Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. She also holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and she currently lives in New Orleans.

LOUISIANA SHORTS JURY

MIMI BRODY is currently the Curator of Film and Director of Block Cinema at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. She was previously a film programmer at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and an associate programmer for the L.A. Film Festival. Prior to that she was in charge of the Golden Gate Awards, the San Francisco International Film Festival’s competitive section for documentaries, animation, short works, experimental film, and video.

MAAIKE GOUWENBERG is an independent curator and producer based in Rotterdam. In addition to serving as a short film programmer at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, she is a co-pilot of Enough Room for Space in Brussels, and committee member at the Mondriaan Fund. Since 2010 she has collaborated with artist Joris Lindhout on the long-term research project Gothic as a Cultural Strategy, which will begin a residency program in New Orleans for theatre makers and visual artists, named Deltaworkers, to begin in 2014.

NARRATIVE SHORTS JURY

CHARLOTTE COOK is Director of Programming at Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival. She was previously Head of Film Programming and Training at the Frontline Club in London and has worked with BBC Storyville, the Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation’s Puma Creative Catalyst Fund and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Charlotte has written extensively for a number of different outlets and was the main photographic researcher for the launch of The Times Onlinearchive project.

TRAVIS MORSS has been with the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana, since 2006 as a Programming Associate and Festival Coordinator. In 2011 he became Director of Programming. He has served as a juror for both the Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts and Science Student Academy Awards and the International Documentary Challenge. Travis also works on documentary productions; the last two films he has worked on, Code of the West and All The Labor, premiered at SXSW in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS JURY

SARAH HARRIS is the Film Programmer and Industry Liaison at the Dallas Film Society, host of the Dallas International Film Festival. She has worked as a Programming Associate for the Sundance Film Festival and Industry Coordinator for AFI FEST. A film graduate of SMU, Harris began her film career as a production assistant on commercials and music videos prior to joining the Deep Ellum Film Festival’s programming department in 2005. After spending most of her life in the South, she currently resides in L.A.

SABRINA SCHMIDT GORDON is an Emmy-winning editor and producer whose work includes the critically-acclaimed documentary Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, about masculinity and gender politics in mainstream Hip-Hop, and Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter, about a young Malian mother’s fight for asylum to protect her daughter from genital cutting. She is currently the co-producer and editor of DOCUMENTED (centerpiece film at AFI Docs), as well as producer and editor of BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez, about the renown poet and activist. She also teaches documentary filmmaking at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

NINA PARIKH has served as the deputy director of the Mississippi Film Office for 15 years. She took a leave of absence to produce the independent feature Ballast, which won many honors including two awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Co-founder of the Crossroads Film Festival and Mississippi Film & Video Alliance, she also directs the Canton Young Filmmakers Program and is an adjunct professor at Millsaps College.

DANEETA JACKSON is a writer, filmmaker, and multimedia artist. A proud native of Southeast Louisiana, her work has been published, screened, and exhibited at home and abroad. She is one half of the creative partnership known as the Elektrik Zoo, which produces films, photographs, writings, and hybrids. Their short film, “Destiny Lives Down the Road,” won the Best Louisiana Short award at NOFF in 2011. Daneeta most enjoys that sweet spot between fiction and reality where facts can be blurred and story can be manipulated into revealing a whole new set of truths.

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Roman Polanski’s first feature film, Knife in the Wa-ter (1962), appeared on the cover of TIME magazine as illustration for its story on that year’s first New York Film Festival. His subsequent films, including Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown established him as a leading director of his generation. He won an Oscar in 2003 for his direction of The Pianist.

Leah Mahan’s documentary Sweet Old Song was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement and screened at Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival. She was invited to work on the rough cut of Come Hell Or High Water at the Sundance Institute Documentary Editing and Story Lab.

Rebecca Marshall Ferris has been working in documentary films since 1998. Her film Miller’s Tale was produced by ITVS and broadcast on PBS. Jason Ferris began his career in NY with the international PBS series Wide Angle. He and Rebecca founded Cottage Films in 2006.

CHINATOWN

DIRECTOR: Roman Polanski WRITER: Robert Towne PROD: Robert Evans DP: John Alonzo ED: Sam O’Steen

It’s the film that cemented Jack Nicholson’s reputation as the best American actor of his generation, and it was the last film Roman Polanski would make before he fled the country in disgrace. Now, almost 40 years later, this 1974 release is hailed as “the greatest film ever made” by a distinguished panel of critics from the British journals The Guardian (quoted above) and The Observer.

Originally titled Water and Power (canny use of a double meaning, but not so poetically evocative as Chinatown), the scenario by Robert Towne has become a classic of the well-constructed screenplay, what now seems like mostly a lost art. In classic noir fashion, private investigator J.J. Gites (Nicholson) is hired by a mysterious woman (Faye Dunaway) to spy on the chief engineer for the Los Angeles water department who she claims is her husband and which eventually will lead to the uncovering of secrets both personal and public.

> Sunday, October 13, 10:00 a.m.Prytania Theatre

> Tuesday, October 15, 9:30 p.m.Prytania Theatre

> Wednesday, October 16, 10:00 a.m.Prytania Theatre

COME HELL OR HIGH WATER:THE BATTLE FOR TURKEY CREEK

DIR/DP: Leah Mahan PROD: Jane Greenberg ED: Jane Greenberg (co-editors: Bill Anderson, Dawn Logsdon)

Come Hell Or High Water follows the painful but inspiring journey of Derrick Evans, who moves home to coastal Mississippi when the graves of his ancestors are bulldozed to make way for the sprawling city of Gulfport. Over the course of a decade, Derrick and his neighbors stand up to powerful corporate interests and politicians and face the twin disasters of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill in their struggle for environmental justice and self-determination.

Turkey Creek residents are descendants of emancipated slaves who settled on the Gulf Coast in the 1860s. They have been stewards of the creek’s rich wetland habitat for generations, and have farmed, fished, hunted, and been baptized along its banks. The story begins when Turkey Creek residents attempt to stop a development that would fill hundreds of acres in the watershed. The mayor of Gulfport calls the protestors “dumb bastards” for standing in the way of progress. Turkey Creek residents and allies succeed in halting the development, only to see their victory unravel after Hurricane Katrina.

>Join us for a reception celebrating the film’s world premiere before the screening, from 3:45–4:30 p.m. in the CAC atrium, sponsored by Chicken & Egg Pictures.

>Following the film will be a panel discussion with the director, subject Derrick Evans (representing Turkey Creek Community Initiatives), and Reilly Morse (Mississippi Center for Justice), to be moderated by filmmaker Luisa Dantas.

> Scheduled to attend: director Leah Mahan, film subject Derrick Evans, and co-editor Dawn Logsdon

> Sunday, October 13, 4:30 p.m.Contemporary Arts Center

CAN’T STOP THE WATER

DIR: Rebecca Marshall Ferris, Jason Ferris PROD: Kathleen Ledet DP: Jason Ferris ED: Bryan Gunnar Cole, Fiona Otway

For 170 years, a Native American Cajun community has occupied Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny island deep in the bayous of south Louisiana. They have fished, hunted, and lived off the land. Now the land that has sustained them for generations is vanishing before their eyes. Years of gas and oil exploration have ravaged the surrounding marsh, leaving the island defenseless against the ocean tides that will eventually destroy it. As Chief Albert Naquin desperately looks for a way to bring his tribe together on higher ground, those that remain on the island cling to the hope that they can stay.

Filmmakers Rebecca Marshall Ferris and Jason Ferris spent three years documenting life on Isle de Jean Charles, immersing themselves in the lives and daily dramas of the families that call this place home. At what point will they finally be forced off their sacred land? And at what point will other coastal communities realize that they are next to be washed away?

>Join us for a reception celebrating the film’s world premiere immediately following the screening, from 3:45-4:30, in the CAC atrium, sponsored by Chicken & Egg Pictures.

> Scheduled to attend: directors Rebecca Marshall Ferris and Jason Ferris, producer Kathleen Ledet, subject of the film Chief Albert Naquin, and members of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indian Tribe

> Sunday, October 13, 2:45 p.m.Contemporary Arts Center

ROMAN POLANSKI LEAH MAHANREBECCA MARSHALL FERRIS & JASON FERRIS

USA | 1974 | 130 min NARRATIVE USA | 2013 | 57 min DOCUMENTARYUSA | 2013 | 38 min DOCUMENTARY

World Premiere World Premiere

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CRYSTAL FAIRY

DIR/WRITER: Sebastián Silva PROD: Juan de Dios Larrain, Pablo Larrain CAM: Cristian Petit-Laurent ED: Sebastian Silva, Sofia Subercaseaux, Diego Macho

When Jamie invites a complete stranger to come along on a road trip to the north of Chile with his Chilean friend Champa and two of his younger brothers, he fails to realize that this woman—a fellow American who goes by the name of Crystal Fairy—is ready and willing to accept any invitation that comes her way. Jamie s acid and self-absorbed personality clashes with Crystal Fairy s free and esoteric nature as all five of them head into the Atacama Desert with the concise mission of drinking a San Pedro cactus for a mescaline-fueled psychedelic trip. As the journey unfolds and the traveling companions get to know each other better, Jamie learns that he must be more accepting of others, while Crystal finds the way to accept herself. Starring Michael Cera and Gabby Hoffman as the Crystal Fairy.

Winner of the Best Director (World Cinema) Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

> Saturday, October 12, 9:00 p.m.Chalmette Movies

> Monday, October 14, 9:00 p.m.Chalmette Movies

> Thursday, October 17, 9:00 p.m.Chalmette Movies

DEAR MR. WATTERSON

DIR/ED: Joel Allen Schroeder PROD: Christopher Browne, Matt Mcusic, Joel Allen Schroeder DP: Andrew Waruszewski

Calvin & Hobbes took center stage immediately when it appeared in newspaper comics across the country in 1985. The funny pages were a big part of popular culture, and it was hard to find a comics reader who didn’t like Calvin & Hobbes. A decade later, when Bill Watterson retired his strip, millions of readers felt the void left by the sudden departure of Calvin and his beloved tiger, and many fans would never find a satisfactory replacement. In his retirement, as he did during his career, Mr. Watterson has steadfastly declined to license his beloved Calvin and Hobbes characters for any wider commercial purposes, aprincipled decision that left perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars on the table. It has now been 18 years since the end of the Calvin & Hobbes era. Bill Watterson has kept anextremely low profile during this time, living a very private life in Ohio. Despite his quiet lifestyle, he is remembered and appreciated daily by fans who still enjoy his amazing collection of work.

Dear Mr. Watterson is not a quest to find Bill Watterson, or to invade his privacy. It is an exploration to discover why his “simple” comic strip has made such an impact on so many readers, and why it still means so much to us today.

The screening will include a special introduction from Michael Tisserand, former editor of Gambit Weekly who is currently working on a biography of George Herriman, New Orleans–born cartoonist whose Krazy Kat cartoons were hugely influential on later cartoonists like Bill Watterson. > Monday, October 14, 7:00 p.m.

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Sebastián Silva is a Chilean writer and director based in New York. He has made a comedy series and five feature films, including The Maid, which won the dramatic Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and Old Cats, which screened at the Festival in 2011. He also directed Magic Magic, which also premiered at Sundance this year.

SEBASTIAN SILVA

Joel Allen Schroeder grew up reading Calvin & Hobbes in the Post-Crescent newspaper in Appleton, Wisconsin, identifying in particular to Calvin’s imagination and love of snow. He attended the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and now resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their two greyhounds.

JOEL ALLEN SCHROEDER

USA | 2012 | 98 min NARRATIVE USA | 2013 | 90 min DOCUMENTARY

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Trailers of Festival Films / FREE / 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

12 Years a Slave 133 min / 7:00

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It Happened One Night (Narr Shorts)82 min / 5:30

Forty Years from Yesterday87 min / 7:30

Delivery 87 min / 9:45

Birdbath69 min / 6:00

MMXIII67 min / 2:00

Good Ol’ Freda86 min / 7:00

Made in Louisiana 177 min / 5:30

Father-Like Son93 min / 10:15

CANO Reception in CAC Cafe 3:00-4:30

New Worlds (Narr Shorts) 93 min / 5:15

Off the Wall (Doc Shorts)85 min / 5:30

The Republic of Two 98 min / 7:30

Stones in the Sun93 min / 7:45

Awful Nice96 min / 9:45

Death Metal Angola83 min / 10:00

God Loves Uganda90 min / 4:00

Trailers of Festival Films - FREE 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Confrontations(Narr Shorts) - FREE107 min / 2:00

Your Day Is My Night 65 min / 6:00

Hasta Nunca80 min / 7:45

Mademoiselle C93 min / 12:00

Furever80 min / 1:45

Our Nixon84 min / 3:30

Drunk Wedding90 min / Midnight

2 Bedroom 1 Bath90 min / 9:00

Water Like Stone86 min / 7:45

Hillbilly Wolf75 min / 10:00

August: Osage County130 min / 7:30

Filmmaker Welcome Party(NOFF Filmmakers Only)10:30-1:30

Borscht Shorts61 min / 4:15

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Drunk Wedding90 min / Midnight

Filmmaker Welcome Party(NOFF Filmmakers Only)10:30-1:30

Cinema Reset Party 10:45 - 11:30

Casual Encounters (Narr Shorts)88 min / 4:00

Aboard the Carousel82 min / 8:00

Shadow Zombie 72 min / 10:00

The Whole Gritty City95 min / 6:30


Your Day Is My Night65 min / 4:15

Crystal Fairy98 min / 9:00

Visitors86 min / 7:00

Forev 88 min / 9:15

Mapping Future of La. Film 4:00 - 5:00CAC 2nd fl.

Editing Panel1:00-2:00CAC 2nd fl.

Magical Universe88 min / 11:30

Fitting In / Stand-ing Out (Narr Shorts) FREE85 min / 11:45

Headspace (Narr Shorts)93 min /1:45

Sons & Daughters (Narr Shorts)96 min / 2:00

Off the Wall (Doc Shorts)85 min / 4:00

Things Found on theGround64 min / 4:15

Towheads86 min / 6:00

For I Know My Weakness89 min / 6:15

Hide Your Smiling Faces80 min / 8:00

Elle71 min / 8:15

See You Next Tuesday84 min / 10:00

Solace76 min / 10:00

Portraits(Doc Shorts)107 min / 11:30

American Commune90 min / 1:45

Skook85 min / 6:00

Pitch Perfect-FREE(CAC Theatre)Narr: 10:00-11:30 Doc: 11:30-1:00

Northern Light105 min / 1:45

BIG JOY: The Adventures of James Broughton83 min / 4:15

ExperimentalShorts87 min / 9:15


MMXIII67 min / 9:30

Made in Louisiana Shorts 286 min / 12:15

The Pleasures of Being Out of Step86 min / 2:30

Brasslands88 min / 4:45

Schism88 min / Midnight

Gender Lens Panel2:30-3:30CAC 2nd fl.

WIFT Reception3:30-4:30FilmmakerLounge

LFEA Reception5:00-6:00Filmmaker Lounge

Bounce House - NOFF Party10:30 - 1:30 / All-Access & TicketsGenerations Hall301 Andrew Higgins Drive

Bible Quiz76 min / 2:45

The Retrieval94 min / 6:45

Searching for Bill76 min / 9:00

Come Hell or High Water: Turkey Creek57 min / 4:30


Your Day Is My Night65 min / 2:45

One Chance -FREE for NOFS members103 min / 7:00

2 Bedroom 1 Bath90 min / 9:00

King of Herrings81 min / 5:00

Nebraska115 min / 7:15

Conversation w/ Godfrey Reggio 4:00 - 5:00CAC 2nd fl.

Funding GulfStorytelling12:30-1:30CAC 2nd fl.

Getting Even (Narr Shorts)66 min / 12:45

New Worlds(Narr Shorts)93 min / 12:30

Curiouser & Curiouser(Narr Shorts)78 min / 2:30

It Happened One Night (Narr Shorts)82 min / 2:45

Medora82 min / 4:30

A Will for the Woods93 min / 4:45

The Garden of Eden87 min / 6:30

Purgatorio80 min / 7:00

Tough Bond84 min / 8:30

You Make Me Feel So Young85 min / 9:00

Louisiana Stories (La. Doc Shorts)94 min / 12:30

Twee Love (Narr Shorts)75 min / 4:45

Animated Shorts89 min / 12:30

Can’t Stop the Water 38 min / 2:45

Tradition Is A Temple 83 min / 8:15


MMXIII67 min / 4:30

Chinatown130 min/ 10:00

Made in Louisiana Shorts 390 min / 12:30

Plan C95 min / 2:45

The African Cypher88 min / 9:30

Chicken & Egg Reception3:45-4:30CAC Atrium

Moviehouse NOLA Party10:00 - 1:00 / Open to AllSaratoga Building (212 Loyola Ave)

Cinéma Vérité (Doc Shorts)80 min / 6:15

Land of Op-portunity Panel1:30-2:00CAC 2nd fl.

Homefront Case Study2:30-3:30CAC 2nd fl.

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Tough Bond84 min / 6:00

Awful Nice96 min / 8:00

Shadow Zombie72 min / 10:00

Young Lakota83 min / 6:00

Dear Mr. Watterson90 min / 7:00

Schism88 min / 9:30

Between Valleys80 min / 5:45

Magical Universe88 min / 6:00

They Glow In the Dark69 min / 7:30

Perry & Emile70 min / 8:00

BIG JOY: The Adventures of James Broughton83 min / 9:30

Some Velvet Morning83 min / 9:45

Headspace (Narr Shorts) FREE to ALL93 min / 4:00

Water Like Stone86 min / 12:00

Brasslands88 min / 2:00

The Whole Gritty City95 min / 4:15


Hey Bartender94 min / 8:15

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom152 min / 6:30

The Pleasures of Being Out of Step86 min / 6:00

Hillbilly Wolf75 min / 8:00

The African Cypher88 min / 9:30

Omitted50 min / 8:30


Le Week-end93 min / 7:30

Bible Quiz76 min / 6:15

A Will for the Woods93 min / 5:45

Hide Your Smiling Faces80 min / 8:15

Searchingfor Bill76 min / 8:00

Between Valleys80 min / 10:00

Delivery87 min / 9:45

Twee Love (Narr Shorts)-FREE to ALL75 min / 5:00


The Republic of Two98 min / 1:45

King of Herrings81 min / 3:45

Stranger By the Lake97 min / 9:00

Aatsinki87 min / 6:30

Forev88 min / 5:30

The New Black[FREE]89 min / 6:00

Chinatown130 min / 9:30

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Civic Theatre Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker93 min / 7:00


You Make Me Feel So Young85 min / 7:45

Death Metal Angola83 min / 8:00

Kill Your Darlings104 min / 8:00

A Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas74 min / 8:45

Decoding Annie Parker91 min / 8:00

Upaj: Improvise [FREE]80 min / 6:00

The Retrieval94 min / 3:00

Skook85 min / 9:45


See You Next Tuesday84 min / 9:45


Forty Years From Yesterday87 min / 7:45

American Commune90 min / 12:45

Chinatown130 min / 10:00

Steve Chong Finds Out...81 min / 6:30

Animated Shorts89 min / 6:00


Suitcase of Love & Shame81 min / 6:15

Towheads86 min /5:00

TBA9:30Purgatorio

80 min / 6:00

Aboard the Carousel82 min / 7:45

Furever80 min / 6:15

16 Acres93 min / 5:30

God Loves Uganda90 min / 6:00

Medora82 min / 6:15

For I Know My Weakness89 min / 8:00

Curiouser...(Narr Shorts)FREE to ALL78 min / 4:30

Le Week-end93 min / 12:00

Birdbath69 min / 2:00



Suitcase of Love & Shame81 min / 8:15

Touchy Feely89 min / 7:30

TBA9:30

Some Velvet Morning83 min / 9:45


Casual Encounters(Narr Shorts) FREE to ALL88 min / 4:30

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4 FILM INDEX4#PostModern 29, 832 Bedroom 1 Bath 3412 Years a Slave 15, 3416 Acres 34Aatsinki 35Aboard the Carousel 35Above the Sea 79The African Cypher 35AM800 85American Commune 36and/or 82Atlantic Avenue 78August: Osage County 36Awful Nice 36Barbie Boy 79Battle of the Jazz Guitarist 81Bayou Maharajah: 15, 37The Tragic Genius of James BookerBetter Days Hip Hop 82Between Valleys 37 (Entre Vales) Bible Quiz 37BIG JOY: 39The Adventures of James Broughton Birdbath 39Boneshaker 80Bourbon in the Bathtub 85Brasslands 39Breakfast 85The Broken Flute 78Bumpy Night 80Butler, Woman, Man 83C#CKFIGHT 29, 83Cabbie 85Can’t Stop the Water 40Chicken or the Egg 82Chillin’ With Her 81Chinatown 40Christmas Day 82Clowns and Robbers 85Cockroach 85Come Hell or High Water: 40 The Battle for Turkey Creek Crystal Fairy 41Curtis 85Date of the Dead 85The Daughter (La Hija) 78The Day I Finally Decided 85to Kill Myself Dear Mr. Watterson 41Dear Santa 79Dear Valued Guests 81Death Metal Angola 43Decoding Annie Parker 43Delivery 43Dinner With Holly 78The Discontentment of 79Ed Telfair Disgrace 80Distant Meadows 83Divine Rite 80

Dog Meet Goose 78Dotty 87Drunk Wedding 45Eight Thousand 78(Achttausend) Elk Grass 82Elle 45Exploration of Confinement 83Faces From Places, 82Louisiana: La Boucherie Father-Like Son 45Flamingos (I Fenicotteri) 80The Flogstra Roar 82(Flogstavrålet) For I Know My Weakness 46Forev 46Fort Apache 87Forty Years From Yesterday 46Fourth Date 85Foxed! 82Furever 47Garden of Eden (Gan Eden) 47God Loves Uganda 47Gold Party 82Good Ol’ Freda 49Growing in the Desert 87Gun 79Hasta Nunca 29, 49Head Over Heels 82Hey Bartender 17, 49Hide Your Smiling Faces 51Hillbilly Wolf 51Homelicide 85Hsu Ji Behind the Screen 80I go to war with everything 85that doesn’t make sense in a bathtub. I Want a Straight Line: 87The Artistry of Jim Sohr I’m Gonna Punch 85Sam Mackey in the Face In to Wonder 82Jack’s Not Sick Anymore 79Jamón 82Kalifornija 80Kill Your Darlings 51King of Herrings 53Kiss Me 79Lambing Season 80Le Week-end 53A Life With Aspergers 82Lillian 85Long Days 78Love Story (Ástarsaga) 79Loves of a Cyclops 78Mademoiselle C 53Magical Universe 55A Man Without Words 81Mandela: 55Long Walk to Freedom Mari 81McCrea 1971 87Medora 55MMXIII 29, 56

The Most Girl Part of You 81Most Likely to Kill 85Mousse 78Natives 80The Naturalist 79Near Death 85Nebraska 56Nervous Person 83The New Black 56Night in a Hotel 78Noah 78Normandie 82Northern Light 57Not For Sale 87Old Man 82Omitted 57One Chance 57One Song (Unser Lied) 80Oscillare 81, 87Our Nixon 59Pearl Was Here 80Perry & Emile 59Phil Collins and the 82Wild Frontier Pineal Warriors 29, 83Places Where We Lived 29, 83Plan C 59The Pleasures of 61Being Out of Step The Prank 79Prisoner’s Cinema 83Purgatorio 61The Record Breaker 81The Republic of Two 61The Retrieval 62Retrocognition 83Rougarouing 87The Runners 87Safety 78Sam’s Formalwear 80Same Ghost Every Night 78Samnang 87Scattered 81Schism 62Scoundrels (Ratitas) 80The Search for 83 Inspiration Gone Searching for Bill 62See You Next Tuesday 63A Shade of Grey 78Shadow Zombie 63The Shelter (Miklat) 87Shelved 82Shino’s Show 80Si Nos Dejan 29, 83Signs of Life 87Skook 63Sleight of Hand 82Solace 65Some Velvet Morning 65Sparkle 87Spooners 81

StandUp 80Steve Chong Finds Out 65Suicide Is a Bad Idea Stones in the Sun 67Straight Down Low 81Stranger by the Lake 67The Sunshine Egg 82Suitcase of Love and Shame 67Summer Suit 79The Swimmer 79Tailypo 82They Glow In the Dark 69Things Found on the Ground 69This Is It 87Tiny Tape Recorder 79Tokyo Halloween Night 78Touchy Feely 69Tough Bond 70Towheads 70Tradition Is a Temple 70Upaj: Improvise 71VARMiNT 79VIrtual Virtuoso 83(Virtuos Virtuell)Visitors 71The Wand 85A Warehouse on 71Tchoupitoulas Wash Song 87Water Like Stone 72We Could Be Your Parents 81Wednesday 85Well-Fed 81What I Hate About Myself 81What the Cluck? 87When We Lived in Miami 29, 83The Whole Gritty City 16, 72Whole New Person 81A Will for the Woods 72Would You Be Kind 78to Leave, Sir? Yeah, Kowalski! 87You Make Me Feel So Young 73Young Lakota 73Your Day Is My Night 29, 73

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MOVIES TO GEAUX: RAISING ARIZONA OUTDOOR SCREENING

FREE SCREENINGS THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL

I I THURSDAY I FRIDAY I SATURDAY I SUNDAY I MONDAY I TUESDAY I WEDNESDAY I THURSDAY

The New Black p. 56

Twee Love p. 81

One Chance p. 57

Confrontations p. 78

Fitting In / Standing Outp. 79

Raising Arizona

Your Day is My Night p. 73

Headspace p. 79

Casual Encounters p. 78

Borscht Corp Shorts p. 83

EDUCATION / OUTREACH

On a budget? No excuses! Enjoy the Fest while giving your wallet some much-needed breathing room. There’s at least one free screening per day of the Festival. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Now in its second year, our education program is a free, youth-focused film series for high school students from New Orleans public schools that affords local students the opportunity to interact with film. Students will view and analyze films broadening their knowlege of digital media wihle learning about important social issues. Filmmakers will be there for an in-depth Q + A after the film, focusing on the production process, and offering an education experience beyond the classroom. Students will further benefit from visiting the New Orleans Film Festival, the Contemporary Arts Center, and the Cinema Reset Gallery.

MMXIII p. 56

Hasta Nunca p. 49

Upaj: Improvise p. 71

Curiouser & Curiouser p. 78

Trailers Screening all day at CAC

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While we’re celebrating more than 200 talented filmmakers who are attending and showing here at the festival, we would like to take a moment to honor these industry pioneers.

What began as after-school work in his family’s silent movie house became an active career in the industry that spanned seven decades. With Doris by his side, Teddy grew his family’s single movie screen into more than 600 theaters and drive-ins spread across the country.

He was elected president of the National Association of Theatre Owners, where he led the reform of film bidding practices that continue to shape the industry. He built and opened the first stadium-style megaplex in Greater New Orleans. He was also the catalyst that established the popular tax incentive programs for filmmakers that have made Louisiana known as “Hollywood South.”

And, nearly a quarter of a century ago, Teddy and Doris helped start the New Orleans Film Society.

What inspired them to become so involved and invested in the movie business? It was the talent, passion and hard work of filmmakers like you. It gave Teddy and Doris great joy to share their love for movies with countless others.

Because when the lights dim and the projector rolls in a darkened theater...it’s pure magic.

Not All Movie Stars Shine In Front Of The Camera

Teddy and Doris Solomon built a theatre empire.

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