MUSIC PICTURES: NEW ORLEANS

Directed by Ben Chace

Tribeca Film Festival 2022 - Movies Plus

Behind the scenes of the iconic Music Scene of New Orleans.

  • Music Pictures gives us four legacy portraits of New Orleans music figures Irma Thomas, Little Freddie King, Ellis Marsalis, and The Tremé Brass Band. Now in their 80s, these local masters continue their practice, for the love of the music, in the city that made them who they are.

  • Director Ben Chace
    Producer Ben Chace
    Featuring Irma Thomas, The Tremé Brass Band, Little Freddie King, Ellis Marsalis, Jason Marsalis
    Executive Producer John Caulkins
    Co-Executive Producer Henry Kasdon
    Cinematography Bruno Doria, Nisa East
    Sound Ian Wood, Lee Garcia, Ben Sellers
    Studio & Church Music Misha Kachkachishvili
    Editor Ben Chace
    Music Supervisor Jonathan Finegold
    Coproducers Johnnie Chace, Eliot Nolen, Buff Chace, Tim Bradley, Bill Ramsey
    Year 2022
    Category Documentary
    Country USA
    Language English
    Run time 72 mns
    Production Company Lilting Films

  • Ben Chace's first feature Wah Do Dem won the Best Narrative at Los Angeles Film Festival, and was included in the top 10 films of 2010 in ArtForum. His follow up Sin Alas, the first American feature filmed in Cuba since 1959, was released by Kino Lorber in 2016. Music Pictures: New Orleans is his first feature length documentary.

  • Coming soon.

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  • Sun June 12 - 8:00 PM at The Indeed Theater
    Wed June 15 - 6:00 PM at Village East by Angelika: Theater 6
    Sat June 18 - 2:30 PM at Village East by Angelika: Theater 7

    After the Premiere Screening: Special performances by Irma Thomas, Little Freddie King & Jason Marsalis.

  • JMP Verdant
    Cordelia Sklansky cordelia@jmpverdant.com
    Julia Pacetti julia@jmpverdant.com