Happy Mardi Gras, very late! The vibe here in Nola was as euphoric as a Tracey Porter interception. We hope your gris gris was greasy and you got your bead on like a chief.
February has been a cross-continental month for Ray Tintori. First, he broke free of New Orleans for Mr. Jefferson’s Academy in the [...]

Last December we welcomed to town Philly pop-gaze band A Sunny Day in Glasgow, who were wanted for several Federal Acts of Indecency committed in the Mormon states. They had fled to Court 13 headquarters in New Orleans, thinking for some reason it was a sovereign state. To help keep their exposure low, they enlisted [...]

You may recall that our project, formerly “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” currently “(Untitled Court 13 Southern Apocalypse Comedy)” qualified to become an Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award finalist. The new news is that we won! One of four winners from around the world, the project is now guaranteed distribution on Japanese TV, and will collect [...]

More often than not, the “global warming” hubbub is presented to us detached and distant– like a snuff film starring the Earth that we watch on TV, slightly horrified and mostly stunned stupid. But for Southern Louisianans not only does climate change present itself as visible, prescient, commonly known fact but it also determines an [...]

Mark, over at IndiePix, has a blog post up celebrating his favorite short films. It’s a good read, and I recommend it as an intro to a neglected narrative form. He had particularly kind things to say about “Glory at Sea,” his number 1; we thought we’d share some of it:
Perhaps it is the brilliant [...]

Hardy Holy Days, from the Court. We may be largely Jewish by birth and by profession, but we are secular/humanist in spirit… Like most New Orleanians, we jive with any and all causes for celebration.
And as a season greeting to you, enjoy this little article on the new movie from the Houma Courier, hometown paper [...]

The YouTube has given the “Glory at Sea” soundtrack a life of its own: first Obama, then Google, and now… its own mash-up track. Check it:

Excuse me–mash-up tracks, plural. Me likes this one better, even:
“Throw Your Arms Around Me (Remix)”
DJ Danger Mouse, beware.

Today we dig into the Court 13 archives to bring you a special treat, one that we’ve somehow never brought to the world at large before. It comes from the first incarnation of the Court 13 Acting/Moviemaking School for Young People, back on the Isle of the Manahattoes, where Benh taught filmmaking class to kids [...]