SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories Film Screening in Baton Rouge
We’re just wrapping up the editing of a beautiful, provocative film about Southern Louisiana – “SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories” – about man’s relationship with water in a part of the world where everywhere you look you’re surrounded by bayou, swamp or wetlands, the Mississippi River or Gulf of Mexico. Home to the most unique and vital culture in America, every Cajun has a story – or two, three or more – about … water.
Today too many of those stories are negative. SoLa’s waterways are home to some serious environmental problems, including oil and gas spills, petrochemical waste, fertilizer run-off from its neighbors and coastal erosion that is disappearing twenty-five square miles of Southern Louisiana each year.
This Saturday, we are screening a rough cut of our new film with our friends at LEAN in Baton Rouge. If you are in the area, please come by and join in the festivities.
Tags: Baton Rouge, Cajun, Coastal Erosion, Fertilizer Run-off, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River, Petrochemical Waste, SoLa
Can’t wait to see it, and looking forward to meeting you and the rest of the crew!
Jon: Nice meeting you at the Alligator Bayou benefit this evening. It looks like you’re finished with your Louisiana project, but if you ever need a re-visit, feel free to contact me. I have a shooting base near End Of The World (see http://claycoleman.tripod.com/id406.htm ), and lots of your video looked very familiar to me. Have you made many dives beneath the oil rigs in the Gulf or at the Flower Gardens NMS? -Clay
Mr. Bowermaster,
My name is Laura McKnight and I am a writer with The Courier and Daily Comet newspapers in Houma and Thibodaux, La.
I am interested in writing a story on your latest film, “SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories,” for our papers here in south Louisiana.
Would you have time to talk with me either tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday afternoon) or any time Wednesday?
I appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Laura McKnight
The Courier / Daily Comet
Houma and Thibodaux, La.