Award Nomination: 30th Annual ATHENA Leadership Award

Each year, the Greater Shreveport Chamber Business Development Connection honors a select group of local individuals at the ATHENA Leadership Award Program. The prestigious ATHENA International Leadership Award is presented to a woman or man, who is honored for attaining professional excellence, engaged community service and for actively assisting women in their achievement of professional excellence and leadership skills.   The …

Bayou Brief: Bill Cassidy is Unseasoned Potato Salad

Bill Cassidy is unseasoned potato salad. With raisins. Read me out. I’m a frontline physician who’s been fighting COVID since the beginning. In fact, I came straight off maternity leave after the birth of my first (and amazing) child into the pandemic as a hospitalist. I’m not sure I’ve ever been as anxious as I was being post-partum in a …

Heliopolis: Shreveporters need to know just how bad COVID-19 really is

When patients are not around, we are in the office, looking at charts, and we are shrugging our shoulders wondering why people won’t stay home. About 30% of people sick with coronavirus that need hospitalization will end up on a ventilator. Of the people who end up on a ventilator, 50-80% will never go home. That’s what’s happening. It doesn’t matter …

BEST IN SHOW makes the Top 20!

HEYYY! It’s been awhile since we updated our news! Probably because somewhere around March we found out we were pregnant (!!!), and life took on a whole other branch! But BACK TO THE NEWS! Our second short film, Best In Show, has made it into the Top 20 of the Louisiana Film Prize! WHAAAAT! The Film Prize is an amazing …

Georgia On My Mind!

MEEEOWWWWY MONDAY! Are we tired of #laurels? Hard(l)y!  (Ok I tried really hard to make this a #laurelandhardy joke so just go with it, it’s Monday 😂) YAYAYAYY SO EXCITED to announce #BrownBridgetMD will be part of the ME Film Festival in GEORGIA this April!  Thankyou so much to the film festival judges! We are honored and excited! We first learned of Mark Datuin, this year’s festival programmer, …

New Podcast Interview!

A funny thing happened on the way to Alexandria! Ok, not really, I just wanted a catchy intro, but a VERY COOL thing happened while we were in Alexandria for the hometown premiere of #BrownBridgetMD! Leslie Borque, an activist and podcast host of “Put A Borque In It,” had been trying to coordinate schedules for some time, and we finally …

LIFF-off! Bridget goes to Baton Rouge!

Sooo this is exciting! #BrownBridgetMD has been selected to screen at the Louisiana International Film Foundation Festival in Baton Rouge, from April 4-7! According to their website, “The Louisiana Film Foundation (LIFF) advances promotes Louisiana’s film and digital storytelling through exhibition, education and economic development. The deep, rich history of storytelling in Louisiana is the perfect backdrop for LIFF FEST, …

#COTB was SUPER FUN!

We had an AMAZING time at Cinema On The Bayou! My only regret is that I wish we could have stayed longer. We fell in love with both the festival and the city of Lafayette. This film festival is MASSIVE but somehow laid back at the same time! There were filmmakers from Japan, Ireland, Australia, and all over the US! …

#BBMD to Screen in Alexandria, La.!

#BrownBridgetMD is going to have a premiere in my hometown of Alexandria, La.! We will be hosting the film along with a Q&A session at the Alexandria Museum of Art on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19th at 5:30pm. Seating is limited, so get there on time! This event is made possible by the LSUA Cavanaugh Lecture series, with the intention of showing …