Paavo Hanninen

With sharp humor and a critical sense of curiosity, comedian CJ Hunt documents the fraught removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans. As the scope of his film expands, Hunt investigates the origins of a romanticized Confederacy and confronts hard truths much of America has yet to face.

On the night before she is set to leave New Orleans to audition for a high-budget television pilot in Los Angeles, Ashley must overcome her best friend and closest collaborator's attempts to thwart her ambitions as this sudden opportunity reveals the long-festering differences between the two of them.

College students confront sexual violence on their campus through a transformative theater process. This urgent coming of age story follows young adults grappling with sex, consent, identity, and power on their paths to adulthood.

A daughter comes home for the weekend to look after her father, ailing with Dementia. The appearance of a mysterious woman shines a light on their changing parent-child power dynamic, threatening to throw their world out of orbit.

At only twelve inches long, the menhaden are a keystone species in the East Coast's marine ecosystem, yet their numbers are threatened by industrial-scale fishing operations in the Chesapeake Bay.

A woman visits New Orleans and in an effort to make a connection with someone and distract herself from her troubles back at home, she pretends to be someone else and soon finds herself caught up in another man's dreams and fantasies about the woman he thinks she is.

Wind Session Tiger Woman is the story of a young man who is alone in a new city. The only person he meets is the lonely woman who lives downstairs from him. They share a surprising connection.

Two people re-connect after a failed first date to discuss a potential medical concern.

When a couple's cat goes missing on a cross country move, their relationship is tested.

Hollow Tree follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis.

A family of 3 siblings deals with the mysterious appearance of a portal in their backyard following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. When Renee decides that the portal is her only means of escaping her surroundings, she will facilitate a paradigm shift that will change their world forever.

An existential comedy about tourism (and difficult software).

A look at the people that live and work on the disappearing coast of Louisiana via travelling with oysters from the coast to New Orleans and back again.