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.
Join us in November for Les Vues, our FREE Film Series, as we present Can't Stop the Water. This documentary tells the story of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana and the Native American community fighting to save its culture as its land washes away. For 170 years, a tribe of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians has occupied Isle de Jean Charles, an island deep in the Louisiana bayous. 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 tide 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.
Join us for our FREE Les Vues film for January, Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras. Pat Mire's film explores the ritual, history and community of the Courir de Mardi Gras, practiced in rural communities in Acadiana.
Join us for our FREE Les Vues film for February, Intention. The film follows the stories of eleven women who encompass the profound gradient of cultural heritage in Southwest Louisiana. Contextualizing language, music, food, art, and traditional faith healing, these Cajun, Creole, and Chitimacha preservationists inspire pursuits of passion in practice that give light to an untold cultural narrative. The discussion after the film will be curated by director/producer Olivia Luz Perillo. Don't miss it!
Join us Monday, March 31 for Les Vues, our FREE film series. Our March selection is L'eau Est la Vie: From Standing Rock to the Swamp. The film features fierce Louisiana Indigenous women who are ready to fight-to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it.
The Quiet Cajuns, this month's Les Vues free film series selection -- join us Monday, April 28 at 6:30 PM. Please like and share, and follow us for all the latest!There are hundreds of Cajuns who have never heard a fiddle waltz and who lose their vision because of a genetic quirk that came here with the Acadians over two centuries ago. This documentary tells the story of Acadian Usher Syndrome.