Item details

Date

Saturday, June 28, 2025 2:00PM

Description

The State Theatre presents

Pointe Noire

Regional Premiere

The State Theatre
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Doors: 1pm
Film: 2pm
Q&A Post Film

Louisiana style food, cookies and music in the lobby and available to all guests before the screening. Come early to enjoy the festivities!

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 (Zachary Richard). Along the way, Louis and Dolores discover a hauntingly beautiful and isolated community suffering from years of secrecy and deceit, a community that must now reckon with the events of 30 years ago to achieve its own form of folk justice.

“A story of mystery, of drama, and secrets as told through the setting, aesthetic, and atmosphere of the area. Setting as a sort of filter or lens through which one sees everything. Look past the crawfish, everything can be found.”
—Bill Arceneaux, Independent Film Critic, Rotten Tomatoes Approved

“Pointe Noire offers a unique portrait of Cajun folkways within a lushly rendered, ever interesting filmic experience . . . just not to be missed.”
—Allan Graubard, Poet, Playwright, Critic

Director:
Pat Mire
Screenwriters:
Rebecca L. Hudsmith, Pat Mire
Script Supervisor:
David Cheramie
Producers:
Rebecca Hudsmith, ​​Producer
Pat Mire​​​, Producer
Nikki Hudsmith, ​​Executive Producer
Scotte Hudsmith​​, Executive Producer
Roy Dupuis, ​​​Associate Producer

Key Cast
Canadian film star Roy Dupuis plays Louis Leger, a filmmaker and crawfisherman from Pointe Noire. Mr. Dupuis has acted in more than 50 feature films, including Forgotten Flowers, Shake Hands with the Devil, The Rocket and, most recently, Rumours, with Cate Blanchett. In addition, he has starred in multiple series for television, including the classic Warner Brothers production, La Femme Nikita.

Myriam Cyr, originally from New Brunswick, Canada, plays Dolores Arceneaux, a criminal defense attorney who returns to her childhood home in Pointe Noire to work on the case of Death Row inmate Joel Richard. Ms. Cyr has starred in such feature films as Kill by Inches, I Shot Any Warhol, Savage Hearts, and Pat Mire’s debut feature film, Dirty Rice.

Legendary singer/songwriter Zachary Richard plays Nathan Smith, a prominent rice farmer and philanthropist in Pointe Noire. Richard, a native of Louisiana, has released over 20 albums and toured throughout the world. He is also a published poet and author, and he has served as a film producer and host narrator in Zachary Richard toujours batailleur and Against the Tide: The Story of the Cajun People of Louisiana.

Michael Bienvenu, a native of St. Martinville, Louisiana, plays Joel Richard, a falsely accused Cajun man on Louisiana’s Death Row. Bienvenu has appeared in numerous short and feature films, including Polk County, Home and Love and Hostages.

Previous Film Festivals and Film Screenings:

17th Les Percéides — Festival international de cinéma et d’art de Percé
Percé, Québec, Canada
August 24, 2025
Official Closing Film

Films at Manship & Louisiana Entertainment
Baton Rouge, LA, United States
April 27, 2025

New Orleans French Film Festival
New Orleans, LA, United States
March 15, 2025

Cinema on the Bayou Presents at Robinson Film Center
Shreveport, LA, United States
February 8, 2025

20th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival
Lafayette, LA, United States
January 29, 2025
U.S. Premiere

38th Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA)
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
November 23, 2024
World Premiere