U.S. and Louisiana premieres of vanguard narrative films, documentaries, animated shorts — it’s all in a day’s work for Cinema on the Bayou, filmmaker Pat Mire’s labor of love now approaching its 11th iteration at the Acadiana Center for the Arts and several satellite locations.
This year’s celluloid soirée, set for Jan. 20-27, promises to be the biggest and best ever. The majority of the nearly 200 films by filmmakers from around the world will make either their Louisiana, U.S. or world debut. The main venue for the festival is the AcA Downtown, but CotB has also scheduled screenings and other events at several satellite locations: the main and south branches of the Lafayette Public Library, Pack & Paddle, Vermilionville, Celebrity Theaters in Broussard and Cité des Arts, also Downtown.
Tickets for individual events generally run in the $5 to $10 range. Day passes for venues can be obtained for $20, and a full festival pass that will get you into anything will only set you back $100. So worth it.
For the schedule, ticket orders or just to find out more, check out Cinema on the Bayou’s website.