ST. MARY PARISH — Franklin’s Teche Theatre is set to bring history to life on the big screen with the screening of Ada and the Doc, a short film that revisits one of the most infamous murder trials in Louisiana history. Set in 1927, the film tells the story of Ada LeBoeuf, a housewife trapped in an abusive marriage, whose life became entangled in a case that gripped the state and led to her execution — making her the first woman put to death by the state of Louisiana in Franklin.

Typically period pieces are extremely expensive, because things don’t look like how they did in the 1920s anymore. Well, not in St. Mary Parish. A lot of that stuff is like little time capsules, and that’s kind of what allowed us to do what we did.

That attention to detail is what drove filmmaker Matison LeBlanc

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