Spotlighting Local Talent in Film
The in-person portion of the 2023 New Orleans Film Festival will
begin on Nov. 2 at venues across the Crescent City. The New Orleans Film
Society recently announced titles for its opening night, as well as some other
spotlighted screenings.
The opening
night film will be Musica! at 7:30 p.m. on November 2nd at the Prytania
Uptown. Multiple Oscar-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will
be in attendance. The film follows four young Cubans who view music as a way of
life. Some remain in Cuba; some leave home.
Also on opening
night at the Contemporary Arts Center's Black Box Theater is Commuted,
the world premiere of a film by New Orleans-based director Nailah Jefferson. In
it, a woman tries to find love and purpose in the world again after her triple
life sentence was commuted.
Saturday,
November 4th will see the screening of director Cord Jefferson's satire American
Fiction starring Jeffrey Wright (Westworld) as a Black author
struggling to get published. The film explores American culture's obsession
with cultural stereotypes. It will get a nationwide release in late December,
so the film fest will be a great opportunity for cinephiles to catch this one
early.
Monday, November
6th will see the festival's centerpiece film All The Dirt Roads Taste Of
Salt at the Prytania Uptown. The film is a lyrical, decades-long
exploration of a woman's life in Mississippi, directed by award-winning poet
and photographer Raven Jackson.
For more
information about the schedule or to purchase tickets, visit NewOrleansFilmSociety.org.
