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New Orleans Film Society

  • Submit Your Film to the 2012 New Orleans Film Festival

    Submit Your Film to the 2012 New Orleans Film Festival

    MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE has named the New Orleans Film Festival “One of the 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee.” Click here for more info on how to submit.

  • NOFS + Chalmette Movies Present BOOKER\'S PLACE May 20-22

    NOFS + Chalmette Movies Present BOOKER'S PLACE May 20-22

    Join the New Orleans Film Society and Chalmette Movies as we present the documentary film BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY May 20-22 in Chalmette. Click here for full details.

  • New Orleans Film Festival Named One of 25 Film Fests Worth the Entry Fee

    New Orleans Film Festival Named One of 25 Film Fests Worth the Entry Fee

    Click here to read the MovieMaker Magazine article that names the New Orleans Film Festival one of “25 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee.”

  • See Movies for FREE--Become a Film Society Member Today!

    See Movies for FREE--Become a Film Society Member Today!

    Click here to learn how to become a member of the New Orleans Film Society and start seeing FREE movies today!

  • Support Film in New Orleans

    Support Film in New Orleans

    Keep us doing what we do! Make a donation today to the New Orleans Film Society and help us fulfill our mission to engage, educate, and inspire through the art of film. Click here to find out how.

To engage, educate, and inspire through the art of film.

THE NEW ORLEANS FILM SOCIETY is host to the New Orleans Film Festival, fimOrama, French Film Festival, New Orleans International Children’s Film Festival, and many other year-round events.

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  • Louisiana Film Wins Big at Sundance--NOFS\'s On-the-Ground Account

    LOUISIANA FILM WINS BIG AT SUNDANCE--NOFS'S ON-THE-GROUND ACCOUNT

    NOFS executive director Jolene Pinder was on the ground in Park City for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where Louisiana film Beasts of the Southern Wild was the talk of the town, taking home three major awards (including the Grand Jury Prize) and getting bought by Fox Searchlight. The following is Jolene’s first-hand account of the festival and her witnessing the Beasts explosion, as well as her interview with Josh Penn, one…

  • Youth Film Contest Launches: \

    YOUTH FILM CONTEST LAUNCHES: "DROP BY DROP: WATER STORIES"

    The Social Change Film Festival & Institute announces the launch of “Drop by Drop: Water Stories,” a 60-second video contest for young filmmakers, ages 18 years old or younger, from across the globe. The contest seeks videos communicating the concerns and insights of youth on WATER, focusing specifically on environmental, cultural, and/or human needs issues. Youth 18 years old and younger can submit their film on the contest geomapping platform created by…

  • Men in Black 3D Fundraiser

    MEN IN BLACK 3D FUNDRAISER

    The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation in partnership with Real D and AMC Theatres present an exclusive sneak-preview screening of MEN IN BLACK 3 – in 3D, starring WILL SMITH and TOMMY LEE JONES Thursday, May 24, at 7:00 p.m. at AMC Elmwood Palace 20 (1200 Elmwood Park Blvd., Harahan, LA 70123). Tickets are $25, and all proceeds benefit the Don “Moose” Jamison HERITAGE SCHOOL OF MUSIC, the free music education…

  • NOA Fest Announces Film Series

    NOA FEST ANNOUNCES FILM SERIES

    NOAFEST is pleased to announce CINEMA PREMIERE @ Cafe Istanbul, the 2012 spring series of films by three bold and provocative filmmakers from Senegal. Friday May 11 – Ousmane Sembene’s Ceddo (1976, 120 mins): In an unspecified past, the Ceddo try to preserve their traditional culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, the beautiful, defiant…