King of the Chitlin Circuit
A rare, intimate look at one of the last great blues showmen, still bringing the house down after a lifetime on the road.
At 92, Bobby Rush is still on the road, taking the stage and testifying through his music. Told in fragments, echoes, and moments of sudden clarity, this intimate documentary stays close to Rush, with reflections from his longtime band members. Born in rural Louisiana, Rush rose from Delta juke joints to Grammy stages, sharing bills with blues legends before appearing in "Sinners" and performing at the Academy Awards. Rather than a career retrospective, the film is a portrait of an artist still performing for his life.
Maestro
More than a marching-band movie, “Maestro” is a moving New Orleans story about the power of music—and one remarkable man using it to change young lives.
In the historic neighborhood of Algiers, New Orleans, beloved band director Wilbert Rawlins Jr. has spent more than 30 years using music to save lives. At L.B. Landry High School, he leads one of the city's top marching bands while guiding students through the daily realities of gun violence, poverty, and systemic neglect, helping more than a dozen earn college scholarships each year.
Filmed over multiple years, "Maestro" offers rare, intimate access as Rawlins faces the greatest challenge of his career, rebuilding his band after the pandemic. It's a powerful portrait of one man's fight to lift up a generation of young people through music.
A Life In Rhythm: The Ray Conniff Story
Through personal interviews and vibrant performances, this is a heartfelt tribute to an international musical legend whose melodies continue to inspire.
Among The Disquiet
A musical journey conceived as a letter from the dead to the living explores the intersecting stories of a New Orleans Vietnamese family and their community as they make sense of their past, present, and future.
Boil That Cabbage Down
After a Black Banjoist learns about the instrument's forgotten history, it launches her on a lyrical journey to reclaim the joy that was lost along the way.
Butthole Surfers: The Whole Truth and Nothing Butt
Through exhaustive interviews, archival footage, cutting-edge animation and graphics, surreal reenactments, and more, we will make a film in the anarchic spirit of the band. It will be irreverent and funny, but also sincere and heartfelt at times as we get these post-punk rock legends to look back on their strange and extraordinary lives.
Finding Lucinda
In search of their own artistic identity, aspiring singer-songwriter Ismay embarks on a road trip across the southern United States, delving into the people and places that shaped three-time Grammy winner Lucinda Williams' early career.
In A Good Place Now: The Life & Music of Bobby Charles
Bobby Charles began his career as a teenager writing songs for Fats Domino, going on to a storied career from teen pop star to country-folk singer. While Bobby never learned to write or read music (or play an instrument), his influence on today’s music and musicians is far-reaching.
La Orquesta
A retired music teacher sets out to create a youth orchestra in Georgia, the first of its kind for undocumented and mixed status families.
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House
Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side of Chicago, a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement.
Musique(s), Le Film
Six musicians and musical ensembles from Louisiana explain why they made the choice to perpetuate the centuries-long tradition of performing in French and Creole.
Now, Hear Me Good
A musician living abroad ponders his sense of community, a self-imposed exile, and what propels him to create.
Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together
In 1980 filmmaker Stevenson Palfi proposed a concert performance by three generations of New Orleans musical legends: Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint and Isidore “Tuts” Washington. Each musician, a mentor to the next, had never performed together. The tortuous rehearsal process was documented with surprising, entertaining and tragic results.
The Rougarou
A Louisiana Dread production, "The Rougarou" tells the story of Miranda, an insurance adjuster, who comes across one of the most notorious folklore legends in Louisiana history: The Rougarou.
Scrim: New Orleans' Most Famous Dog
Scrim is the New Orleans Rescue dog that became a legend by escaping and evading rescue in true Action Movie fashion while capturing the hearts of many in true Louisiana Fashion. He inspired art, tattoos, and took over Mardi Gras while shedding a renewed and inspiring light on the Rescue World.
Bring the whole family to the Broadside for this special outdoor screening. And come early, from 6 to 7 PM for a pet adoption fair with local rescue organizations, where dogs and cats of all ages will be looking for their forever homes. You may leave with a new best friend of your own.
Second Line
This film is a love letter to New Orleans. It showcases the poet Chuck Perkins and his poem "Second Line," written for the movie.
Shouter/Rocker
The music started in enslavement, but now the traditions of the Ring Shout and Easter Rock are being brought to the masses.
Singing the Shapes: Songs of the Enduring Sacred Harp
World Premiere! A charming celebration of a singular Southern musical tradition where everyone sings and everyone belongs. Followed by a musical workshop and performance.
Strangers gather in churches, community halls, and living rooms to do something remarkably simple: sing together. “Singing the Shapes” enters the world of Sacred Harp, a 180-year-old American musical tradition where there are no performers or audiences, only participants. Loud, raw, and without instruments, its four-part harmonies bring together people of radically different generations, beliefs, and backgrounds. The film explores the unique alchemy of this participatory music, where listening, learning, and contributing together turns dissonance and difference into harmony.
Some Kind of Refuge
Dwellers of the breathtakingly lush and peaceful banks of the Mississippi River live outside the constraints of modern society. Their survival and slowly disappearing way of life depends on resourcefulness, a deep respect for nature, and identities that are defined by individuality, spiritual freedom and resiliency.
Take It Away
This dynamic documentary charts the rise of Tejano and Regional Mexican music through the groundbreaking legacy of Johnny Canales — the charismatic host who launched icons like Selena — revealing the cultural impact, triumphs, and untold story behind a genre that now dominates global airwaves.
Tessitura
Blending character portraits with historical context, "Tessitura" explores how voice and gender are continuously reformulated in opera.
Thibodeauxville - The Story of the Thibodaux Massacre: Race, Riot, and Resilience
A vital Louisiana story of history, memory, and racial justice, narrated by New Orleans native Wendell Pierce. In Thibodeauxville, Louisiana, where silence has long obscured a history of racial violence, a native daughter returns home to uncover the truth of the 1887 Thibodaux Massacre, when white vigilantes attacked Black sugarcane workers striking for fair wages and humane working conditions. Through descendants, historians, activists, and community members, “Thibodeauxville” confronts a history whose death toll and details remain contested, revealing how buried violence still reverberates across generations, and how remembering itself can be an act of reckoning and resilience.
What We Can Know About Edmond and Basile
Barès and Dédé were Creoles of Color – Dédé a free man, Barès born into enslavement. Both wrote and performed operas and concert pieces popular with black and white audiences. Now, New Orleans musicians are resurrecting their works.
Man On The Run
Man On The Run takes viewers on an intimate journey through Paul McCartney's extraordinary life following the breakup of The Beatles and the formation of Wings with his wife, Linda.
The Welcome Table
From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox (“Gasland”), a global climate-migration story that comes home to New Orleans. This is a film about the most devastating issue of our time—climate refugees and climate migration. The UN estimates that one out of every three people on the planet will be forced to move due to climate change. The film travels all over the world, documenting the stories of people displaced by climate change—from extreme weather, hurricanes, drought, famine, landslides, and fires. They are then invited to a single table on the levee in New Orleans to meet, talk to each other, and heal. A wall, on its side, can be a table.
Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon
A musical mystery with the emotional pull of “Searching for Sugarman”—and a fascinating window into a lost chapter of Vietnamese culture.
Vietnamese American filmmaker Khoa Ha sets out to recover the lost music of her grandfather, legendary composer Y Vân, whose songs once defined Saigon’s golden age. Traveling across Vietnam, she uncovers rare recordings, family stories, and a forgotten chapter of Vietnamese music history shaped by war and displacement. Spanning three generations, the film becomes an intimate journey of memory, cultural inheritance, and the enduring power of music.
