In celebration of the Lafayette Parish Bicentennial, Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday, January 25^th with the World Premiere screening of the documentary film, THE RAGIN’ 13, at 7:00 p.m. at Cité des Arts, 109 Rue Vine, Lafayette, Louisiana.  The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Nic Campbell and a gala reception honoring the members of the record-setting University of Louisiana National Olympic Weightlifting Teams.

To purchase tickets, go to: https://18thcinemaonthebayou.eventive.org/schedule.

The Festival will screen films both in-person and on-line over the course of the eight-day Festival. The 2023 Festival lineup, which was chosen from a pool of hundreds of film submissions, consists of over 175 Official Selections, including narrative and documentary features, narrative and documentary shorts, and animated and experimental films. With the Festival’s ongoing emphasis on the Francophone communities around the world, we will screen at least 68 French language films.  We will have filmmakers in attendance from New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Toronto, Montreal, and London, just to name a few, at in-person screenings throughout the Festival.