269. Langston A. Williams, Part 2

269. Part 2 of our interview with filmmaker Langston A. Williams. Langston didn’t start off with a plan to make a social commentary as his master’s thesis film at the University of New Orleans. But the summer after Williams finished writing the screenplay for a horror short, a 37-year-old named Alton Sterling was shot by police officers in Baton Rouge. Williams discovered then that he had an entirely different screenplay in him – one about race, police brutality and the media. “The story almost wrote itself,” said Williams (M.F.A.,’17). Now, Williams’ 25-minute short film, “Stay Woke,” is racking up honors on the film festival circuit and, most impressively, was invited to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner on May 17, a first for a student film made through UNO’s Department of Film & Theatre program.

1. This week in Louisiana history. July 14, 1937. First piling driven for N.O. Charity Hospital.
2. This week in New Orleans history. Bob Hope came to New Orleans on July 14, 1955 to play in a golf match at Lakewood Country Club to benefit the United Cerebral Palsy Association. When the match had to be called off because of bad weather, Hope instead made two personal appearances at the Saenger Theater.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
      The International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo is held during the last weekend in July that includes the Sunday. Please fill out the registration form below and mail to
   P.O. Box 25
   Des Allemands, LA 70030
   by the deadline of July 16th.
      Registrations received after Friday July 16th will not be processed via mail.
   
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Tanya Huang plays a song by Evanescence on Royal St. 

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