Louisiana-born singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Music in Film and New Orleans-based filmmaker Darcy McKinnon will receive the Lumière Award as the New Orleans Film Society gives out its highest honors at its Oct. 24 gala. This special night, part of the New Orleans Film Festival, supports the NOFS’s year-round independent filmmaker programs.

“This year’s festival is packed with incredible parties, panels, and red-carpet premieres, and the gala is at the heart of it,” said Dodd Loomis, interim executive director of the New Orleans Film Society.

The Lifetime Achievement Award for Music in Film honors artists whose work has left an indelible mark on both the art of cinema and the world of music. Lucinda Williams epitomizes these qualities

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