"Pointe Noire" A Pat Mire Film

Tickets are $15.00 and can be purchased at https://cinemaonthebayou2026.eventive.org/schedule or at the door. All proceeds will be used to present the annual Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, an all-volunteer international, juried film festival which is held annually during the last week of January, as well as to present film screenings and events throughout the year.

"Pointe Noire" is a murder mystery in which filmmaker and crawfisherman Louis Leger (Roy Dupuis) and criminal defense attorney Dolores Arceneaux (Myriam Cyr) join forces in the Cajun prairie community of Pointe Noire to save the life of Joel Richard (Michael Bienvenu), a falsely accused man on Louisiana's Death Row who faces imminent execution. What follows is a search for the truth -- to find out what really happened 30 years ago when two people were killed the night of the traditional courir de Mardi Gras on the property of prominent rice farmer and philanthropist Nathan Smith…