Part two of our review of the 2025 Louisiana Film Prize features two back-to-back interviews with the acting winners from this year’s event: from writer/director Alexander Jeffery’s The Old Man at The Bar, Best Actress honoree Abby Tozer, and Best Actor honoree from Girl Dad, Ty Hudson, who’s joined by wife/filmmaking partner Rachael Hudson. Ty wrote the movie and Rachael directed it.
In The Old Man at The Bar, Abby plays a temperamental French waiter who along with her irritating co-worker (played by Noah Silver) becomes charmed by a kind yet mysterious senior citizen (played by Stan Brown from Jeffery’s 2015 Film Prize Best Picture winner The Bespoke Tailoring of Mister Bellamy) with a taste for rare wine and a bittersweet story all his own.
Ty Hudson won the 2025 Film Prize award for Best Actor for his emotional and touching performance in the father-daughter time travel drama Girl Dad as a man, Anthony, who experiences the happiness and troubles of parenthood on one special day with Emily, a daughter he’ll never meet - but one who teaches him that a father’s love endures in spite of both devastating loss and the unstoppable passage of time itself.
Girl Dad, and Ty’s performance in the film, is a tribute to both fatherhood and to the beautiful memory of the child that Ty and wife Rachael tragically lost themselves.
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