Front Page: On Our Way Back | Coming Soon

Formed in the 90s, the music trio Front Page (Octarve “Peanny” Anderson, Michael “Mike” Turner, and Gregory “Ringo” Ringo) reconnect and reminisce on how they started, their move from New Orleans to Los Angeles, and the ups and downs of being in the music industry.

Black Magic | Coming Soon

Adam Davis is a self-taught tintype photographer. His mission since 2020 has been to produce tintypes to create an archive of 20,000 portraits of Black Americans. In 2022, he was invited to photograph jazz musicians at the legendary New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Club.

In Search Of…Pregame

Eight years ago, after his son was born, the Jamaica-born US filmmaker Jason R.A. Foster began thinking about what it means to be a father to a son. Foster’s own late father was drafted by the Minneapolis Lakers around 1960, but he broke his leg after falling from a horse, ending his career before it began. Blending home movies and original footage shot in the US with archival audio recorded in Jamaica, this documentary explores the filmmaker’s relationship with his children, family, and love of basketball.

World Premiere at the Third Horizon Film Festival June 2022, | Tallgrass Film Festival September 2022 | New Orleans Film Festival November 2022 | Seattle Black Film Festival April 2023 | Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) October 7, 2023 | Timehri Film Festival (Guyana) October 26-29, 2023

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Special Jury Recognition for Best Louisana Documentary Short | New Orleans Film Festival

“The jury would also like to recognize a film, whose beautiful use of onscreen text expands the limits of what a frame can hold, giving the audience access to process and processing that neither the audio nor the visual can contain. Poignantly moving between reflections on self-imposed assignments, filmmaking, family legacies, blackness, fatherhood, and basketball, the film combines the intimacy of literature with the mind-wandering, associative qualities of experimental cinema."

Jurors: Summer Shelton, PJ Raval, and Jordan Lord

2023

 Seeing Sounds

Mr. Henry has been working in the same parking lot since 1959. Seeing Sounds takes a peek inside his world through an interview, portraiture and environmental still film photography, and Super 8 film footage.

Official Selections || New Orleans Film Festival (2020) | The Black Film Festival of New Orleans (2020) | Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL (2021)

2021

Bye Bye Bywater

Alfred Marshall

A Conversation with John O’Neal

Filmed in November 2012, this conversation with John O'Neal, co-founder of Free Southern Theater and founding Artistic Director of Junebug Productions centers around Mr. O'Neal's values and aesthetics that have guided his approach to art-making over the span of his 50+ year career as a civil rights organizer, playwright, director and actor. From the formation of Free Southern Theater and the story circle process to the creation of the mythical everyman character Junebug Jabbo Jones, Mr. O'Neal shares the importance and power of stories and its role in creating social change.

2012

Rethink: Greater than the Sum

Greater than the Sum was filmed during the 2014 Summer Leadership Program that Rethink (http://www.therethinkers.org) holds every year. Through the words of Rethinkers, Jamia and Rashad, and the visuals of the non-tourist New Orleans, they give us a glimpse into what it's like being a black youth in today's society.

Rethink: Restorative Justice

Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools is an organization that supports youth voice in New Orleans public schools and advocates for youth-led systemic changes in the education system. In the summer of 2013 we took a deep look at school discipline and held a news conference about the role of restorative justice in resolving conflicts peacefully instead of using harsh punishments that push young people out of school. This documentary tells the story of our 2013 news conference in the words of the Rethinkers themselves.