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The 2024 Lake Charles Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, Friday, October 4th, at 5 PM at the Wyndham Hotel (2940 Lake St). The evening will feature several independent short film screenings, culminating in a special 100th-anniversary showing of Buster Keaton’s classic 1924 film, 'The Navigator.'
At 9 PM, join us for the Kick-Off Mixer at Lagunas Mexican Grill and Cantina.

The festival continues at the hotel on Saturday at 9 AM, with a full day of film screenings, seminars, and workshops covering filmmaking, acting, producing, directing, stop-motion animation, PR strategies for your film projects, and more. The day wraps up with an awards ceremony and wrap party at MacFarlane’s Celtic Pub.

Meet celebrities, network with filmmakers, learn from industry pros, and make new friends—all while enjoying an entertaining weekend of cinema.

Make plans now to attend!
Tickets are available online at: https://lakecharlesfilmfestival.ticketleap.com/2024-lake-charles-film-festival

It's time for our LCFF annual 48-Hour Film Sprint!
It's completely FREE to participate and you can do it from anywhere in the world. Even if you've never made a film before or don't have any video equipment. You can use your phone as a camera if you wanted to.
This is good for families, friends, work groups, students, church groups, or anyone who wants to have some fun on a weekend.
All you have to do to enter is PM us your name, team name, and where your team is located. We will sign you up.
Here's how it works: Sign up and on Friday, September 20 at 6pm we will release 3 items that have to be in the film (a character name, a line of dialogue, and a prop). Then you have 48 hours to write, direct, shoot, and edit a complete short film, upload it to Youtube and send us the link before the 48-hour deadline. It's that simple. The completed films will be screened at the Lake Charles Film Festival.
Register now!

At this year's Serialfest, we will be watching select chapters from Superman (1948), Blackhawk (1952), Batman (1943), The Green Hornet (1940), Radar Men From the Moon (1952), The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941), Spy Smasher (1942), Captain America (1944), and The Phantom (1943).
We will also show a few Fleischer Superman cartoons.
Serial cosplayer Bill Necessary will be in attendance wearing several different serial costumes throughout the day.
The Calcasieu Serialfest if FREE to attend and there will be free drinks, free popcorn, and a free pizza lunch.
This awesome event is sponsored by Louisiana Film & Video Art and the Brimstone Historical Society.

Taking place this Saturday!
It's FREE to attend, thanks to the support of Louisiana Entertainment and the Brimstone Historical Society!
A day full of independent film screenings in different genres and different categories including narrative film, documentary, animation, music video, web series, and student film. There will also be a presentation on low-budget filmmaking for those who want to learn how to make a movie and get it distributed.
For more info, check out our website at www.Calcashorts.com
Hope to see you there!

Here's the schedule for the 2024 Calcasieu Parish Short Film Festival, happening Saturday, May 25th, at the Brimstone Museum Annex in Sulphur, Louisiana. We hope to see you all there!

For more information, check out our website at www.calcashorts.com

We are excited to announce that actor William deVry will be joining us at this year's Lake Charles Film Festival. With a diverse portfolio including hit television shows like "InSecurity," "Nikita," "Stargate: SG-1," "Earth: Final Conflict," "Hemlock Grove," "Quantum Leap," and "Seaquest," William deVry is a seasoned actor. Fans of daytime dramas may recognize him from popular series such as "All My Children," "The Bold and the Beautiful," and "General Hospital," for which he won an Emmy. Currently, he is working on developing his own action-adventure series, "C**t & McQueen," and a movie of the week titled "Christmas in Bordeaux." Don't miss the opportunity to meet William at this year's film fest and gain insights from him on acting, producing, and show development.

www.LakeCharlesFilmFestival.com

Attention filmmakers and screenwriters!
The "Call For Entries" is now open for the 2024 Lake Charles Film Festival which will take place October 4-5, 2024.
We accept entries exclusively through FilmFreeway.

Here is the link to our submission page:
https://filmfreeway.com/LakeCharlesFilmFestival

Visit our website for more festival details:
www.LakeCharlesFilmFestival.com

We have locked in a date for this year's Calcasieu Serialfest!
Time to start planning.
Special thanks to the Brimstone Historical Society for hosting us again!

Make plans now to attend the 2024 Calcasieu Parish Short Film Festival on Saturday, May 25.
Currently taking short film & short script submissions at:
https://filmfreeway.com/CalcasieuParishShortFilmFestival

We will see you Friday & Saturday at the Lake Charles Film Festival!
It takes place at the Holiday Inn (2940 Lake Street) in Lake Charles.
The schedule and events are listed on our website at www.lakecharlesfilmfestival.com
Come watch some great films, learn some new stuff about filmmaking and distribution, visit with other indie filmmakers, actors, screenwriters, and talk shop.
Don't miss our Friday night mixer at Rikenjaks and our Saturday night mixer and awards ceremony at MacFarlane's Celtic Pub.

Today is the day!
Our 48-Hour Film Sprint will start this evening.
There is still time to register your team and get in on the fun!
It is completely free to participate in and you can do it from anywhere in the world.
Just go sign you team up at https://lakecharlesfilmfestival.com/48-hour-film-sprint.html

We will post the 3 items your film must contain on our FB page around 6pm this evening. Sometimes we post it an hour or two earlier, but it will definitely be on here by 6pm central.

You can find more info about the sprint on our website under the 48-Hour Film Sprint menu tab.

www.lakecharlesfilmfestival.com

Please consider helping out this great Louisiana nonprofit company that documents & preserves Louisiana film history!

Movie Poster Archives is facing a crisis as we approach our seventh anniversary. It's been my privilege to serve as executive director since founding our nonprofit in 2016. Many people have contributed to achieving our mission of creating a vast physical and digital repository of movie posters and related film accessories for preservation, research, education, and exhibition.

Our collections contain over three million artifacts but it could all be lost.

For a motley set of reasons, we do not have the financial support so desperately needed to maintain the collection and realize its potential as a global resource. Deadlines are looming that could send us into a doomsday spin. It won't take much to save the Archives.

Thousands of people have enjoyed our exhibits, virtual museum, website, and gallery. If everyone gave $10, about the price of a movie ticket, we would be on solid footing again.

Please go to our website and donate today. Campaign 2023. https://MoviePosterArchives.org/Campaign-2023

In deepest gratitude for your support,

Linda Thurman
Executive Director

The 2024 Calcasieu Parish Short Film Festival is now accepting submissions of short films and short scripts.
You can submit through Filmfreeway at this link:
https://filmfreeway.com/CalcasieuParishShortFilmFestival

At this year's Lake Charles Film Festival, Mitch Laing will share tips for making an indie feature and getting it distributed like he did his feature Bigfoot film "The Bogman"... Ed Poole from Hollywood on the Bayou will give a fascinating presentation on the history of film in Louisiana, including some fun trivia and behind the scenes stories on some of these productions... there will be a special 100th anniversary screening of the silent horror film 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'... come out and meet Hollywood actor Johnny Whitaker and hear his stories from TV shows and films he has been in... attend an industry mixer, awards ceremony, and more.
Make plans now to attend the 11th annual Lake Charles Film Festival this October 6th & 7th!

Make plans to attend this FREE family event in Calcasieu Parish on Saturday, July 29th!

The 9th annual Calcasieu Serialfest is only one weekend away!
Join us Saturday, July 29th, at the Brimstone Museum annex in Sulphur, Louisiana for this FREE retro film festival. A full Saturday of cliffhanger serial screenigs.
This year's fest is sci-fi themed.
There will be a free pizza lunch and free popcorn, snacks, and drinks!
This awesome free event is made possible by Louisiana Film & Video Art, Inc. and the Brimstone Historical Society.
Make plans now to attend!
There will be plenty of space for rocket ship parking on site.

Here is the schedule for the 2023 Calcasieu Parish Short Film Festival. Make plans to attend! Saturday, May 20th at the Brimstone Museum Annex in Sulphur, Louisiana.
www.Calcashorts.com