Les Vues Free Film Series: All on A Mardi Gras Day

Vermilionville - Performance Center

Les Vues, the free film series at Vermilionville is back! Our first selection for 2023 is a must-see. Winner of the Louisiana Filmmaker Award, Royce Osborn's All on A Mardi Gras Day tells the story of New Orleans' black carnival, from Congo Square to post-Katrina. This award-winning documentary mixes interviews with Big Chiefs, Zulu Kings and other carnival maskers with amazing archival footage and classic New Orleans music. The free film runs an hour, and after the film, Alton "Tiger" Armstrong will speak on his experiences as Big Chief of the Lafayette Mardi Gras Indians.

Les Vues Free Film Series: No One Went Hungry

Vermilionville - Performance Center

Les Vues, the free film series at Vermilionville is back! Our April 2023 selection is No One Went Hungry: Cajun Food Traditions Today, a film by Kevin McCaffrey. After the film, enjoy a presentation by Food Historian and Vermilionville interpreter Jay Steiner.

Les Vues April — Rodents of Unusual Size

Vermilionville - Performance Center

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'.

Les Vues — Reconstructing Creole

Vermilionville - Performance Center

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.