the Les Vues FREE Film Series for August presents "Our Spirits Don't Speak English", a documentary chronicling efforts by the U.S. Government to separate Native American children from their families and put them into "Indian Boarding Schools" to achieve 'cultural assimilation'. Conversation after the film will be curated by Chief Sitting Bear of the Avogel.
Our September selection for our FREE Les Vues Film Series is "Rivers Run Deep--the Atchafalaya."
Les Vues, Vermilionville's FREE film series looks at death, Louisiana style! Monday, October 30 at 6:30 PM, we'll show two short films on death and mortuary practices in Louisiana, Little Houses and Grave Houses. It all starts at 6:30 PM. Come enjoy this free showing at Vermilionville.
Vermilionville's FREE Film Series continues in November with two short films to commemorate Native American Heritage Month, "Finding Our Talk", and "The Chitimacha". Join us Monday evening, November 27, at 6:30 PM in the Vermilionville Performance Center.
Our Les Vues Free Film Series wraps up the year with "A Louisiana Christmas Story", Monday, December 18 at 6:30 PM. Join us!
Enjoy our FREE Film Series, Les Vues! Monday, April 29 at 6:30 PM in the Vermilionville Performance Center, we'll be showing Rodents of Unusual Size, a feature-length documentary film, which deals with the love-hate relationship between South Louisiana and the nutria, the titular 'rodent of unusual size'.
Enjoy Les Vues, Reconstructing Creole, FREE documentary Monday, July 1 at 6:30 PM. This film was named Best Documentary Feature at the 2007 Hollywood HD/DV Film Festival, as well as the 2007 Humanities Documentary of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.A burned-out plantation home is restored while the memoir of its former mistress reveals a world of slavery and society balls, of race-mixing and family bonds, of cruelty, love and joie de vivre.
Our Les Vues FREE Film Series continues in August with Acadian Brown Cotton, a documentary detailing all about "The fabric of Acadiana", Acadian Brown Cotton.
Vermilionville's Les Vues FREE Film Series continues in September, with "After the Spill', a documentary that examines the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion & spill on the coastline, the economy and the people of Louisiana. Join us for a thought-provoking and insightful evening, Monday, September 30 at 6:30 PM.
Join us for our FREE Film Series, Les Vues. In October, we'll show Closed for Storm, the story of the ill-fated New Orleans Jazzland Six Flags amusement park, devastated in Hurricane Katrina and left to slowly deteriorate.
