Local

Over the past few weeks, a number of small film crews have taken to the streets of Shreveport. They’ve been shooting all around northwest Louisiana, like in a vacant former restaurant in the Highland neighborhood. They’re making short films – that must be shot locally – to enter into this year’s Louisiana Film Prize contest.

"The Bone Lady" – forensic anthropologist Mary Manhein of Baton Rouge – is one of the featured speakers in the adult science series “Looking Under the Lens” that begins Tuesday, June 11, at Sci-Port: Louisiana’s Science Center in Shreveport.

Manhein head’s up LSU's Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services Laboratory. She also directs Louisiana’s repository for missing and unidentified people – a database of 250 unsolved cases. Manhein is called on by law enforcement agencies in Louisiana and around the country to identify remains.