#CreateLouisiana French Culture Film Grant

#CreateLouisiana French Culture Film Grant is sponsored by #CreateLouisiana. The #CreateLouisiana French Culture Film Grant celebrates and supports films that reflect Louisiana's enduring cultural legacy of French-speaking storytelling.

French Culture Film Grant — #CreateLouisiana Louisiana has long since been known for it’s rich heritage and storytelling. From the early Acadian settlers to our French ancestors, the stories of French-speaking Louisiana have reached audiences around the globe, continually evolving and inspiring new generations to embrace this unique culture.

In 2015, #CreateLouisiana launched a new partnership to showcase the state’s deep connection to French and Francophone culture. With support from lead sponsor TV5MONDE USA, the #CreateLouisiana French Culture Film Grant was born. The #CreateLouisiana French Culture Film Grant is supported by TV5MONDE USA , Cox Communications , Deep South Studios , Louisiana Economic Development , and CODOFIL.

Production mentoring and support Special screening at the New Orleans French Film Festival Opportunity to broadcast on TV5MONDE USA GUIDELINES + APPLICATIONS Co-directors, Milton Arceneaux and Dustin Cravins Producer, Robert Chevalier Rooted in Louisiana French and Kouri-Vini, this film highlights Creole Zydeco musicians whose language, sound, and spirit power the state’s cultural identity and tourism economy. Musique(s)!

celebrates Louisiana’s rich tradition of music sung in French and Creole. An abstract portrait of Creole people in Louisiana and their connection to horses. Both Horse and Rider dancing their way to cultural preservation.

Footwork. Producer, Rachel Nederveld An elderly Black Creole grandfather must make money from street performing or move to Oklahoma with his daughter and grandson. Director/Writer, Luke Harris When Franky finds out his dad is sick and can't afford the treatments he needs, he enlists his crew of friends and movie-making cohorts to enter a local film fest and to compete for the prize of $100,000.

The catch is, they have 5 days to complete this monumental project. Director/Writer, Skyler Stroup Scott Tilton, Nous Foundation When a struggling immigrant takes a job as a caregiver to a dying woman, she shares with him a secret that casts a haunting shadow on the American life that he has desperately been pursuing.

Director/Co-writer, Logan LeBlanc Co-writer, Trevor Navarre Producer, Allison Bohl DeHart Intention follows the stories of eleven women who encompass the profound gradient of cultural heritage in Southwest Louisiana. Contextualizing language, music, food, art, and traditional faith healing, these Cajun, Creole, and Chitimacha preservationists inspire pursuits of passion in practice that give light to an untold cultural narrative.

Co-Directors/Co-Producer, Syd Horn Co-Directors/Co-Producer, Olivia Perillo Grammy-winning Louisiana band Lost Bayou Ramblers push the boundaries of Cajun music and breathe new life into the Louisiana French language through their genre-bending music. On the recording journey of their latest album Kalenda, the Ramblers let us explore the modern Cajun lifestyle, and discover that this “dying” language may not be so dead after all.

Producer, Lizzie Guitreau From within the New Orleans French immersion community, a francophone school teacher from Africa and a teenage former student connect through music, dance, and cathartic visions of their worlds reimagined.