Entertainment and Music Driven Festival Open to Features, Documentaries, Shorts and Music Videos
BATON ROUGE, La. - LouisEagle -- The 4th Annual Listening Room Film Festival announces dates, times and call for entries. Dates are Friday and Saturday, December 5, 6, 12, 13 from 3:00pm to midnight and Sunday, December 7 and 14 from 3:00pm to 9:00pm. Films will be followed by Q and A's. Industry panels are also a part of the presentations, along with musical performances.
The Listening Room Film Festival's focus is on music and entertainment driven features, documentaries, shorts and music videos, with an emphasis on performers, music and filmmakers from the Southeast area. Other genres submitted will also be considered. It is presented by Henry Turner Jr.'s Listening Room Museum Foundation.
The festival is both physical and virtual. Local, regional, national and international films will be considered and reviewed by selection committee and must have been completed between January of 2022 and up to September of 2025. Films for consideration need to be entered by October 31, 2025. Features can be up to ninety minutes, shorts up to thirty minutes and music videos up to fifteen minutes. Submissions can be emailed to listeningroomfilmfestival@gmail.com.
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For entry guidelines, tickets and more information please visit https://www.htjmuseum.org
or call 225-802-9681. The venue is located at 2733 North Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802.
The Listening Room Film Festival was founded by music entrepreneur Henry Turner Jr. to give new and established filmmakers a place to screen their films and play their music in a comfortable environment. It focuses on people who are pioneers or influencers in the entertainment industry, as well as the performers and actors in the films and musicians who provided music soundtracks.
Award winning features from the 2025 festival included the documentaries "Wasted: Overtourism in the French Quarter, "When Men Greave (Lionel Baptiste's Funeral) and "A Night of Artist Renewal: History in Living Color." Features included "Peanut Man-The Story of George Washington Carver," "King Bee-The Slim Harpo Story" and "Without A Name." Shorts included Frances's "You Rose Like a Tempest, Quebec's "Un Not Kankan" and "Shi Nassha" a Native American tale.
Music videos blocks included Listening Room and Festival Alumna, Louisiana Musicians, with videos from Here and Abroad. Panels included Songwriting for Film and Television by Barry Coffing, How Filmmakers and Attorneys Interact with Eugene Radcliff, Esq. and Vernon W. Thomas, Esq. and The Making of Music Videos with Tawanna Louis and Ms. Pressure.
Live musical performances, to name a few, were by Henry Turner Jr. & Flavor, Tawanna Louis, A'Dria, Ervin "Maestro" Foster, Kelton 'Nspire Harper and Kevin White.
Sponsors to date are Louisiana Lottery, Cutting Edge NOLA, Henry Turner Jr.'s Listening Room Museum Foundation and LPJ Productions.
The Listening Room Film Festival's focus is on music and entertainment driven features, documentaries, shorts and music videos, with an emphasis on performers, music and filmmakers from the Southeast area. Other genres submitted will also be considered. It is presented by Henry Turner Jr.'s Listening Room Museum Foundation.
The festival is both physical and virtual. Local, regional, national and international films will be considered and reviewed by selection committee and must have been completed between January of 2022 and up to September of 2025. Films for consideration need to be entered by October 31, 2025. Features can be up to ninety minutes, shorts up to thirty minutes and music videos up to fifteen minutes. Submissions can be emailed to listeningroomfilmfestival@gmail.com.
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For entry guidelines, tickets and more information please visit https://www.htjmuseum.org
or call 225-802-9681. The venue is located at 2733 North Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802.
The Listening Room Film Festival was founded by music entrepreneur Henry Turner Jr. to give new and established filmmakers a place to screen their films and play their music in a comfortable environment. It focuses on people who are pioneers or influencers in the entertainment industry, as well as the performers and actors in the films and musicians who provided music soundtracks.
Award winning features from the 2025 festival included the documentaries "Wasted: Overtourism in the French Quarter, "When Men Greave (Lionel Baptiste's Funeral) and "A Night of Artist Renewal: History in Living Color." Features included "Peanut Man-The Story of George Washington Carver," "King Bee-The Slim Harpo Story" and "Without A Name." Shorts included Frances's "You Rose Like a Tempest, Quebec's "Un Not Kankan" and "Shi Nassha" a Native American tale.
Music videos blocks included Listening Room and Festival Alumna, Louisiana Musicians, with videos from Here and Abroad. Panels included Songwriting for Film and Television by Barry Coffing, How Filmmakers and Attorneys Interact with Eugene Radcliff, Esq. and Vernon W. Thomas, Esq. and The Making of Music Videos with Tawanna Louis and Ms. Pressure.
Live musical performances, to name a few, were by Henry Turner Jr. & Flavor, Tawanna Louis, A'Dria, Ervin "Maestro" Foster, Kelton 'Nspire Harper and Kevin White.
Sponsors to date are Louisiana Lottery, Cutting Edge NOLA, Henry Turner Jr.'s Listening Room Museum Foundation and LPJ Productions.
Source: Henry Turner Jr. Listening Room Museum Foundation
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