Southern Screen

Southern Screen Festival 2022 Schedule of Events

Thursday, November 10

6:30PM-9:35PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Champagne + Oysters Social
BAND OF OUTSIDERS (narrative feature screening)
In the 1964 Jean-Luc Godard reimagined gangster film, two restless young men enlist the object of both of their fancies to help them commit a robbery—in her own home.
 
Friday, November 11

6:00PM-7:00PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Short Fiction Writing Competition Winner Announcement + Reading
Join us as we name and read the winner of this year's short fiction story based on the theme of "Celebration and the South."
 
6:00PM-7:00PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Film Festival Programming AMA w/Eric Hatch
Baltimore based film programmer, critic, and distributor Eric Hatch will be available to answer any questions you have about film festival programming.
 
7:05PM-8:35PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY (documentary feature screening)
A delightful story of the beloved PBS children's series "Reading Rainbow," its iconic host LeVar Burton, and the challenges its creators faced in cultivating a love of reading through television.
 
8:30PM
Wild Child Wines
Friday Night Social w/ Boma Banga + Basher
Grab some drinks and enjoy the hypnotic reimagining of 1960s and 70s Congolese Rhumba with Boma Bango and the freak out dance, free avant-pop, post-jazz groove punk music of Basher.

Saturday, November 12
 
11:00PM-12:30PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Louisiana Storytellers Panel w/ Abraham Felix (Filmmaker), Cheryl Duvall (Storyteller), Drake LeBlanc (Filmmaker), Linda Midget (LPB/ Moderator)
From audio stories to commercial content to indie films, learn how these local creators celebrate community through their craft.
 
12:35PM-2:15PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Shorts Series 1-
 
11 – An unconfident hooper plays a pickup game to 11, and with the help of his best friend, he'll showcase skills that he didn't believe he had.
 
QUITTING TIME – City bus driver, Luis, end his shift—but fills his hours with an extra-curricular activity that keeps him on the move.
 
PATTERN – We all get lost in patterns. For some of us they can be totally consuming.
 
WILD CHILD – On a cold evening in the French Quarter, a woman's quiet evening transforms into something wilder.
 
EVA WANTS TO STAY IN – After coming home exhausted from work, Eve is confronted by a literal pile of chores and her wife, Audrey, ready to hit the town.
 
JUDY’S THOUGHTS – In 1981, a vibrant mother recorded her thoughts on a cassette tape as her life was slipping away.
 
THE QUIET CAJUNS – The story of Acadian Usher Syndrome sprinkles many Cajun family trees with deafblind aunts, uncles and cousins.
 
Followed by filmmakers Q&A
 
2:20PM-3:50PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Know Your Film Rights w/ Steven Lowy
Set yourself up for success by learning how to navigate the legal landscape of rights that often arise when making a narrative or documentary film.
 
4:15PM-6:35PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (narrative feature screening)
Social hierarchy is turned upside down when a celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich.
 
7:00PM-8:25PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
ROOTS OF FIRE (documentary feature screening)
Followed by filmmaker Q&A
The battle to revive dying traditions comes to life through the young musicians of Southwest Louisiana.
 
8:30PM
Hideaway Hall
ROOTS OF FIRE After Party w/Pine Leaf Boys and Special Guest

Sunday, November 13
 
11:00PM-12:40PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Shorts Series 2 –
 
THE NEGRO AND THE CHEESE KNIFE – Have you ever heard of a Black man with a cheese knife? Unfortunately for Antione, neither have the police.
 
DAY OF THE DEB – The looming apocalypse forces a broken-hearted man to come to terms with the women who left him.
 
CAFFEINATED – An ex-couple finds themselves facing the undead as they bide time in the shelter of a bar.
 
THE PERFECT DAY – Charlie Hoover, an aspiring ad man living in his van, eagerly answers a job posting to videotape Linda Lindell’s online life coaching series.
 
VIOLET BUTTERFIELD – A mortician beautician brings out the beauty in death that her clients could have had in life.
 
STRANGER THAN ROTTERDAM WITH SARAH DRIVER – The completion of Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise hinged on the smuggle of one of the world’s most controversial films.
 
A SHAMAN'S TALE – A powerful shaman embarks on a mystical journey from the deep jungle to the cosmos.
 
HOT MOTHER – At an idyllic hot springs retreat a vacationing mother and daughter bicker and avoid connection.
 
Followed by filmmakers Q&A
 
12:45PM-2:15PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Fixing it in Post: Digital Clean-Up on a Lo/No Budget Session w/ Dag Luther Gooch
Wanna know what you can and can't do in post or how to avoid a bunchofexpensivepostwork? Compositing? CameraTracking? Rotoscoping? Get all of your questions answered and more.
 
2:30PM-4:06PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
THE INTEGRITY OF JOSEPH CHAMBERS (narrative feature screening)
A family man, hoping to prove his survivalist capabilities to his family, irresponsibly heads off into the woods to go deer hunting.
 
4:15PM-5:45PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Storytelling in Marketing: Experiential and Digital Session w/ Franki Chan
Sit down with Crescendo! Host Greg Bresnitz to explore FRANKI CHAN’s IHEARTCOMIX, a Los Angeles based studio responsible for some of the most innovative modern marketing campaigns.
 
6:00PM-7:40PM
Acadiana Center for the Arts
FIRE OF LOVE (documentary feature screening)
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other, and volcanoes.
 
7:45PM
Blue Moon Saloon
Wrap Party w/ Speech Fuzz + Bruisey Peets
That’s a wrap for Southern Screen 2022. Close out the festive weekend with drinks, food and twee pop, indie-rock band Speech Fuzz along with the dreamy sounds of Bruisey Peets.

Upcoming Festival Dates

November 4-7, 2021
November 3-6, 2022
November 2-5, 2023
November 7-10, 2024