NOLAsynchroniCITY – Good For What Ails You

Please join us for NOLAsynchroniCITY, a new monthly film series featuring the extraordinary culture of New Orleans and our Louisiana heritage. The films are screened at 8:00pm and 10:00pm on Sunday nights at Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant. Filmmakers will be available for questions in between screenings. Admission FREE.

GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YOU: Healing Secrets of the Cajuns, Creoles, and Bayou Indians by Glen Pitre and Michelle Benoit
On the Louisiana bayous, even today, alligator grease relieves asthma, a buried potato cures warts, and “smoking a baby” eases the pains of colic. To pull back the curtain from this distinctive tradition of faith healing, herbal remedy, and ritual magic, Good For What Ails You follows respected “treaters” as they gather wild teas, brew home-made cough syrup, invoke the saints at their home altars, and most of all, heal the sick.  (1998, 57 minutes)

For more information visit www.nolasynchronicity.com, and Good for What Ails You.

UPCOMING FILM:
April 21st 
Streetcar Stories by Michael Mizell-Nelson and Matt Martinez 
streetcarstories.org