Attend Film Prize in-person October 16-17th or watch online starting October 15th, watch all 20 short films, and then you can vote for the grand prize winner of $50,000 cash. Plus you can vote for the best acting performance category!
When a powerful political wife kidnaps the young woman she suspects is having an affair with her husband, a tense spring afternoon of weed, whiskey, and psychological warfare spirals into a deadly loyalty test that exposes the true nature of love, power, and possession.
Produced by Gian Smith
Starring Grace Gibson, Patricia Guevara, Michael C. Forest
Cinematography by Patrick McGinley
Gian Francisco Smith is a New Orleans based, multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer Smith’s film franchise The Adulterer has screened in almost 20 film festivals around the country winning “Best Narrative Short” at the Festival of Cinema NYC 2018. The Gene Siskel Institute in Chicago, by way of the Black Harvest festival, sponsored Smith’s next work through a generous grant, and ultimately a nomination for the Ellen Sandor award, the festival’s top prize, for his original short Love tap. Gian’s 2021 film Tucker’s War closed out its festival run picking up a third award for best feature at the Hip Hop film festival in Harlem. 2021 also saw Smith receive a fellowship with the New Orleans Film Society’s Emerging Voices Program. Smith’s latest work The Capitalist received the Founder’s Circle Award and a generous grant at LA Film Prize 2023. Currently Smith is serving as festival director for the annual Black Film Festival of New Orleans which he founded in 2018.
