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December 29th, 2011  The filmmaker and one of her subjects. This January, New Orleans filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West and the New Orleans Film Society will screen Hadleigh-West’s award-winning Player Hating: A Love Story, a documentary about Brooklyn “thug” culture.
Player Hating follows hip-hop artist Half-a-Mill and his Brooklyn crew, the Godfia Criminals, as they struggle to escape poverty and violence through music in the Albany Housing Projects. In raw, uncensored form, Player Hating delves intimately into the lives of young “thugs,” and reveals the core of human poverty.
 “Player Hating brings audiences into a world they might otherwise ignore, or be too frightened to enter,” says Hadleigh-West. “People watch this film and they see and feel the incredible humanity that is at risk daily of being lost to violence.”
The film will screen at 7pm and 9:30pm on January 14 at Café Istanbul (3272 St. Claude Ave in New Orleans). Hadleigh-West will be in attendance for the 7pm showing, with a discussion to follow. The film will also screen on Sunday, January 15, at 6pm, and on Monday, January 16, at noon. Tickets are $10 at the door.
For the rest of the screening schedule (through February 26), visit www.yomaggie.com/playerhating.html.
December 12th, 2011 Ed and Susan Poole, authors of reference book Hollywood on the Bayou, will be giving a free one-hour presentation tomorrow, Tuesday, December 13, at Chalmette Movies (8700 Judge Perez Dr. in Chalmette). The presentation begins at 7:30pm.
Based on Hollywood on the Bayou, which documents 1,170 films made in or about Louisiana, the presentation will …Read more…
December 2nd, 2011 Monroe-based R-Squared Productions has commissioned local artist Lissy Sanders Compton to design the New Hope movie poster.
New Hope is R-Squared Productions’ latest feature-length film, which addresses teen issues, including suicide. The painting will be auctioned off with 50 percent of the proceeds being donated to The Children’s Coalition. The Children’s Coalition is a non-profit …Read more…
November 30th, 2011 The 2nd annual Fear Fête Horror Film Festival has announced that it is now accepting horror film submissions for the 2012 festival. Fear Fête is Louisiana’s premier independent film festival for horror submissions. Baton Rouge will host this three-day festival, accepting short, feature, and full-length horror films. The event is open to the public and …Read more…
November 21st, 2011 New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC) will be holding an intensive green screen workshop on Saturday, December 10, at 9th Ward Studios.
Green-screen techniques are becoming more prevalent in today’s film production experience, even the indie. Green Screen Pop-Up is a one-day intensive look into just what is required to take advantage of this technology …Read more…
November 4th, 2011 Mark your calendars! R-Squared Productions has announced the screening date for the worldwide premiere of its newest feature film. New Hope will screen Friday, February 10, at First West, 500 Pine Street, in West Monroe at 7pm.
The film stars Samuel Davis (Abel’s Field), Perry Frost, and Ben Davies (Courageous), and also includes appearances by …Read more…
November 3rd, 2011 La Film Workshops, LLC offers informative, hands-on workshop events, each focused on a single aspect of production such as Screenwriting, Directing, Camera, Lighting or Editing. That is, until now!
LAFW’s newest event will combine Camera, Lighting and Sound into one workshop so intense it can only be described as a “boot camp”! LAFW’s Video Production …Read more…
October 31st, 2011 The Actors Fund’s Artists Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC) will offer a free health care seminar to visual and performing artists and entertainment professionals at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center (located at 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in New Orleans) on November 2 from 6 to 8pm.
The seminar, co-sponsored by Sweet Home New Orleans …Read more…
October 26th, 2011 MPD stands for Motion Picture Development. Through this program, students have learned writing, directing, cinematography, acting, and editing for television, digital film, documentaries, and more.
Through the efforts of Digital Media Production House and the non-profit Louisiana Arts & Entertainment (LA&E), producer/director Aaron L. Williams has begun his on-camera class that is televised weekly to offer Louisiana’s …Read more…
October 25th, 2011 Louisiana acting coach Jerry Katz, who teaches weekly acting classes in New Orleans, has just launched the first of a series of products designed to help actors “on the go.”
The first product, entitled AUDITION PREP is an audio pod that can be loaded onto a CD, MP3, and/or computer (etc.) that helps actors prepare …Read more…
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