Third Listening Room Film Festival looking for films, music videos for December event

The 3rd Annual Listening Room Film Festival is seeking entries for its Dec. 6-15 event.

The entertainment and music-driven festival is looking for features, documentaries, shorts and music videos.

Film screenings will be from 3 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6-7 and 13-14, and from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8 and 15. The films will be followed by Q&As. 

Industry panels with professionals and executives are also a part of the presentations, along with musical performances.

The festival, which will be both in-person and virtual, focuses on performers, music and filmmakers from the Southeast area, although other film genre submissions will be considered. 

Local, regional, national and international films will be considered and reviewed by a selection committee and must have been completed between January 2021 and up to September 2024. Features can be up to 90 minutes, shorts up to 30 minutes and music videos up to 15 minutes. 

Entries are due by Nov. 1, and can be emailed to listeningroomfilmfestival@gmail.com.

For entry guidelines, tickets and more information visit www.htjmuseum.org or call (225) 802-9681. 

The festival was founded by music entrepreneur Henry Turner Jr. to give new and established filmmakers a place to screen their films in and play their music in a comfortable environment. It focuses on people who were pioneers or influencers in the entertainment industry, as well as the performers, actors, entertainers in the films and musicians who provided music for soundtracks.

Award-winning, retrospective features and shorts from the 2023 festival included the local debuts of “Séance Games: Metaxu,” “Santa’s Letters,” “El Seuno,” “The Tia’s,” A Night of Prayer” and “Good Business Sense.” International debuts were “Do-Over,” from India, with shorts from Iran, “Exchange” and “The Librarian” and “Mirrorty” from Turkey, among others. Regional films included “Battlegrounds: The Lost Community of Fazendeville.”

All events this year will take place at the Henry Turner Jr. Listening Room, 2733 North St. in Baton Rouge, and be presented by Henry Turner Jr.’s Listening Room Museum Foundation. Other sponsors to date are Visit Baton Rouge and Music Connection.