Running StumbledUSA
2006, 85min.
 Script/Dir.: John Maringouin, Dir. of Phot.: John Maringouin, H.E. Dishman, Edit.: John Maringouin, Molly Lynch, H.E. Dishman, Prod.: John Maringouin, Molly Lynch.
After years of working in Hollywood, and after a twenty-five year absence, filmmaker Maringouin returns as the prodigal son to his Terrytown, Louisiana birth home. He films a most intimate, frank and strange portrait about the complex relationship between the filmmaker’s estranged father, the Dadaist painter Johnny Roe, Jr., and Roe’s self-destrucive common-law wife, Virgie Marie Pennoui. Johnny is a New Orleans legend, known for being a career heroin user, a street-fighting pimp, and an accused murderer. He also once tried to kill his son. A lament for lost time, the film is a dark, engaging hyper-real fable, shot with a Southern Soul, and always on-the-edge. | Maringouin, John  Born 1973, New Orleans.
In 1993 he started out as a designer and editor. He has worked for David Lynch and Billy Bob Tornton. As a filmmaker, he is interested in people who live on the seamy side of society. John has directed several feature length films about personal and bizarre subjects. He recently produced and directed Just Another Day in the Homeland, an apocalyptic-themed documentary about the first thirty days of the Iraq war, which premiered at the Rotterdam IFF in 2004.
Filmography
Just Another Day in the Homeland (2004), Running Stumbled (2006).
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