2025 New Orleans Film Festival

Louisiana Shorts: Portraits

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7 films in package
Last of the Shrimpers
A Louisiana shrimper fights to preserve his family’s legacy and a vanishing way of life as the shrimping industry crumbles under economic and global pressures.
T.Osborne
Terrance Osborne is an extraordinary New Orleanian artist who paints vibrant scenes of the city. This film follows his raw passion and deep love for his city, his family, and his wife, immersing viewers in Osborne's unique and eccentric vision.
Jan Beauboeuf: The Creative Spirit
Jan Beaubouef is an 88 year old artist from central Louisiana as she completes her latest project, a sculpture assembled from locally sourced materials. This film is a contemplative journey of the life, challenges and creative process of an aging artist.
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Embracing Instability
A filmmaker uses Super 8 film to come to terms with his diagnosis of Young Onset Parkinson's Disease.
Loves to Dance
When the world feels a little too heavy, one uninhibited three-year-old reminds us sometimes the best thing to do is dance.
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Pharmacy Museum Tour Guide, New Orleans
The enactment of a poem about the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, the oldest licensed pharmacy in the United States.
Anywhere I Lay My Head
An intimate portrait of four squatters making a home inside an abandoned power plant in New Orleans. Over two years, their lives, relationships, and daily struggles unfold against the looming threat of a rumored redevelopment plan.
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Louisiana’s stories live in its people—in calloused hands hauling shrimp nets, in brushstrokes on canvas, in the struggles and resilience of those navigating life’s hardest margins. These documentary shorts offer intimate portraits of Louisianans whose lives, in their variety and tenacity, reveal the beating heart of this place we call home.

An intimate portrait of four squatters making a home inside an abandoned power plant in New Orleans. Over two years, their lives, relationships, and daily struggles unfold against the looming threat of a rumored redevelopment plan.

  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    24 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    World
  • Director
    Fernando MacFarlane
  • Producer
    Frank Monteleone
  • Cinematographer
    Fernando MacFarlane
  • Editor
    Fernando MacFarlane
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