*Walker Percy: A Documentary Film
Video: DVD, color; 60 minutes
The film makes use of never before heard audio interviews with the renowned author who spent the last thirty years of his life in a modest house on the banks of the Bogue Falaya River north of New Orleans. The doctor turned writer/philosopher examined fundamental questions of human existence with a dry humor and from a perspective both Southern and universal. Scholars, colleagues, friends and family are interviewed and interspersed with archival photographs and previously unreleased footage.
Expected release date: December 2009
Producer/Director: Video Veracity/ Winston Riley
*T-Fred: The Last Frog Hunter
Video: DVD, color; 60 minutes
This film is about a young Cajun boy, son of the last traditional frogger in the Louisiana Atchafalaya Basin. T-Fred (short for Petit Fred) is truly unique in this age of sanitized indoor childhoods. He spends his time in the wild at night, competing with snakes and alligators for frogs which he snatches from the swamp with his hands! His is the story of roots, determination and a rich culture sensitive to its own dwindling strength but defiant in the face of an increasingly homogenized society.
Expected release date: December 2009
Producer/Director: Independent Feature Project/ Pamela Burke Cameron |
*A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House
Video: DVD, color; 30 minutes
Based on the critically acclaimed book by Danny Heitman, this LPB-produced documentary traces the formative summer painter and naturalist John James Audubon spent at Oakley Plantation in West Feliciana Parish in 1821. The film demonstrates how the landscape and surroundings at Oakley influenced the evolution of his artistic development. Audubon’s immense cultural legacy thrives even today through rich Louisiana traditions of ritual/cultural celebration, storytelling, artistic expression and conservation.
Expected release date: July 2010
Producer/Director: Louisiana Public Broadcasting/ Christina Melton
*Seafood and Smoke: Cajun Culinary Traditions
Video: DVD, color; 54 minutes
Film explores the meaning and cultural influence of Acadian culinary traditions, the nuances determined by local availability, ethnic influences and social traditions leading to a deeper understanding of the Acadian mind and lifestyle. Based on the book Stir the Pot: The History of Cajun Cuisine by Marcelle Bienvenu, and Carl and Ryan Brasseaux, these native grown scholars geographically differentiate the subtleties of Cajun food culture from the smoked meat Cajuns of the plains to the seafood Cajuns of the coastal areas.
Expected release date: January 2010
Producer/Director: Southern Food & Beverage Museum, Kevin McCaffrey |
