NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The influence of Africans and Creoles of color on Louisiana Architecture is the subject of a new documentary. LBJ spoke to some masters featured in the film. "Most of my work is ornamental. We're ornamental plasterers. We make a lot of crown molding. We make rooms in some cases that look like palaces," said Jeff Poree with Poree Plastering. VCPORA produces documentary examining ‘Overtourism’ in French Quarter Poree is one of the subjects of a new documentary from the Louisiana Architecture Foundation called Ancestral Artistry: The Influence of Africans and Creoles of Color on Louisiana Architecture. Also featured in the film is Master Blacksmith Darryl A. Reeves, who spoke to the restoration of historic work. "When you're doing a restoration you're tearing things apart, repairing it and putting it back together. When you tear something apart you're actually looking into the past. You're learning a technique…it's like a language really," said Reeves. The foundation hopes to shine a light on the incredible work of the men and women and influences who built our state. It certainly is the artisans and the craftsmen that have been involved from slave days to today that have made our buildings and our architecture that any other state surrounding us or in the United States," said Louisiana Architecture Foundation Board Chair Marcel Wisznia. Where Y’at this Weekend: Virtual book talk, New Orleans opera, Tremé Gumbo Fest, Three Rivers Arts Fest It is also the foundation's hope to share that the artisans and trades are a dying breed and we have an obligation to make sure that doesn't happen. "I feel like I'm kind of like the last of my generation. All of our friends and my contemporaries are retired. Of the previous generation, only two of them are alive. So I'm kind of the last one representing everyone," said Poree. The documentary Ancestral Artistry makes its New Orleans premiere Thursday, Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. at the historic BK House on Chartres Street Stay up to date with the latest news, weather and sports by downloading the WGNO app on the Apple or Google Play stores and by subscribing to the WGNO newsletter. Latest Posts Advancements in DNA testing helps solve 26-year-old Morgan City cold case Independence man arrested, faces 20 child porn charges No. 11 Alabama meets No. 14 LSU in a showcase of how the new CFP means more high-stakes games Trump picks Susie Wiles for White House chief of staff St. Tammany Parish Council considering mandatory spay-neuter ordinance