Shreveport: the Hollywood of the South on the Red River

On the Red River in northern Louisiana, Shreveport has become in recent decades an important and active center of American film production.

The downtown, nicknamed the Hollywood of the South, requires a car to navigate between distant neighborhoods on the Red River.

The Shreveport-Bossier Film Trail retraces the locations of the hundreds of Hollywood productions filmed in the city thanks to generous tax incentives.

A few minutes away, the R.W. Norton Art Gallery displays works by Remington and Audubon in a large park with artificial lakes and well-kept flower gardens.

Walking along the river, you visit the great floating casinos on the Red River, a tradition dating back to the legalization of gambling in the nineteen-nineties.

In the evening, the Highland district comes alive with restaurants and live blues and jazz venues typical of the American South.

Shreveport, nicknamed 'Hollywood South' for the tax incentives that have attracted hundreds of film productions since the 2000s, now rivals other American cities for volume of shoots.

The Red River, made navigable only in the 1800s after the long removal of a gigantic natural obstacle of logs stretching over 100 kilometers, transformed Shreveport into a prosperous river port.