Flood Streets, a New Orleans indie feature that features Simpsons legend Harry Shearer in a supporting role and has garnered rave revues on the film fest circuit, is being screened tonight as a benefit for the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic.
Presented in conjunction with the Threadhead Cultural Foundation, the event is from 7-11 pm at the Republic, 828 South Peters Street, in the Warehouse District. The Panorama Jazz Band and the Russian mafia band Debauche will perform.
Autographed DVDs and posters from Shearer (who is also an executive producer) and other members of the cast will be raffled off and there will be a Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening. Admission is $20 and includes one raffle ticket.
The film tells the stories of a group of creative malcontents searching for love, money and marijuana in the surreal streets of post-flood New Orleans. Flood Streets has won many awards including best Louisiana narrative feature at the New Orleans Film Festival. Critic Louis B. Parks of the Houston Chronicle calls it “upbeat, amusing…well-done and involving. There’s a big, raucous New Orleans soundtrack.”
