Watch & Screen
Bring Desire home, or to your community.
Ask about watching the film at home, or host a screening and conversation at your church, school, library, festival or family reunion.
Ways to watch
Choose how you’ll see it
Host a screening
Community screenings with an optional conversation or Q&A with filmmaker Leonard Smith III, in person or virtual.
Classrooms & libraries
Educational screenings for history, Louisiana studies, African American studies, urban studies and sociology courses.
A DVD combo package is planned. Join the mailing list on the Support page to hear when it’s released.
Screening request
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Why host
A film made to start conversations
“Our goal is to have the film screened in theaters, schools, and community groups around the country to start dialogue.”
The film is a tool for discussions about family, a sense of belonging, and government involvement — or the lack of it — in urban communities.
— LS3 Studios
Where it has screened
Festivals, broadcasts and community screenings
- 2020New Orleans Film FestivalOfficial Selection, outdoor screenings
- 2020San Diego Black Film FestivalFinalist, Best Documentary
- 2020San Francisco Black Film FestivalOfficial Selection
- 2021Black Film Festival of New OrleansBest Documentary and Audience Jury Award
- —George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, New OrleansPrivate screening and panel discussion with Lenett Films Production
- 2022WYES-PBSBroadcast premiere, February 7
- 2023Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan8th Annual African American Film Series, presented by Communities First Inc.