2nd Annual Listening Room Film Festival Announces Dates, Times and Call for Entries

BATON ROUGE, La. - June 26, 2023 - PRLog -- The 2nd Annual Listening Room Film Festival is pleased to announce the dates, times and call for entries. They are Friday and Saturday, December 8, 9, 15 and 16 from 3:00pm to midnight and Sunday, December 10 and 17 from 3:00pm to 9:00pm. The films will be followed by Q and A's. Industry panels with professionals and executives are also a part of the presentations, along with musical performances.

The Listening Room Film Festival's focus is on music and entertainment driven features, documentaries, shorts and music videos, with an emphasis on performers, music and filmmakers from the Southeast area, although other film genres submitted will be considered. It is presented by Henry Turner Jr.'s Listening Room Museum Foundation.

The festival will be both physical and virtual. Local, regional, national and international films will be considered and must have been completed between January of 2020 and up to September of 2023. A retrospective component will include films that were produced by  filmmakers that are important to the continuance of Louisiana filmmaking and its' history. These films need to have been completed in the last twenty five years. Films for consideration need to be entered by October 9, 2023. Features can be up to ninety minutes, shorts up to thirty minutes and music videos up to fifteen minutes.

For entry guidelines, tickets and more information please visit https://www.htjmuseum.org or call 225-802-9681. The venue is located at 2733 North Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802.

The Listening Room Film Festival was founded by music entrepreneur Henry Turner Jr. to give new and established filmmakers a place to screen their films in and play their music in a comfortable environment. It focuses on people who were pioneers or influencers  as well as the performers, actors, entertainers in the films and musicians who provided music for soundtracks.

Some of the films that were screened last year included multi-award winning documentaries. Renee Edwards' "One Note at a Time," Jason and Abby Berendt Lavoi's "Roots of Fire," Ted Baldwin's "Gutter Punks" and Evan Kidd's "We Lived the Blues." Rarely seen films included "Best of the Leon Russell Festivals" by Jeffrey Haas and Charles Bush's "Raining in My Heart" and "Back to the Blues."  Sneak peeks were "Still Rockin' the Story of Bill Haley and His Comets" by Julian and Bertie Higgins, with Andre Champagne and "Who Said You Can't: African American Women in Science" by Gisele Haralson.

Industry panelists included Cutting Edge Director Eric Cager, Music Supervisor Barry Coffing, Louisiana Entertainment & Digital Media Director Chris Stelly, journalist Hedi Butler, Podcaster and Music Store Owner Bob Sanchez, and Festival Director and publicist Marcia Groff, among others.