
"Louisiana has a really great infrastructure for film, with really talented filmmakers. That's where I started my career, so I've done many films there. I came up in New Orleans in the..."
Sinners, a supernatural horror film directed by Ryan Coogler set in 1932 Mississippi Delta, features Academy Award-winning production designer Hannah Beachler's moody Southern Gothic visuals. The film follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack returning to their hometown of Clarksdale to open a juke joint, unaware of lurking evil. Though set in Mississippi, the production filmed in Louisiana, utilizing the state's secluded rural countryside rather than its famous nightlife areas. Beachler, based in New Orleans for over twenty years, leveraged her intimate knowledge of Louisiana's landscape and infrastructure to authentically recreate the 1930s Mississippi setting, drawing on real locations to establish the film's distinctive visual character.
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