This coming Thursday I’ll be screening a documentary film for the College of Communications Senior Fellows program, about the impending death of South Louisiana’s wetlands and its music, called “By the River of Babylon: An Elegy for South Louisiana”. I made the film over the past 7 years, and it played on the PBS/World Channel program “America ReFramed” this past summer.

It’s aimed at viewers who have some sense that Cajun/Creole Louisiana is a special place, but who may not have visited there or know much about these issues in particular. Students who are studying or planning to make documentary films might be interested and they’re welcome to join us.

The screening will take place at 12:30 in the Belo Center for New Media, which is right across from the honors dorm quad, up on the 5th floor (BMC 5.102), and it will be free. There’s a lot of good music in the film, and enough science to understand the problem in the wetlands, and afterward there will be a discussion of the process we went through to make it, and a little time for Q&A.

Don Howard

Associate Professor and UT3D Director

Department of Radio/Television/Film, UT Austin