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Conversation with the filmmakers and stars of Trouble the Water, Winner of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. A dramatic look into the real stories of New Orleans residents who battled Hurricane Katrina's deadly floodwaters, journeyed across post-disaster stumbling blocks, and seized a chance for a new beginning. Moderator: Judith Bell, President, PolicyLink Panelists include Danny Glover, Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, Kimberly Roberts, and Scott Roberts.Conversation with the filmmakers and stars of Trouble the Water, Winner of the 2008... more
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The rebirth of the New Orleans music scene has lifted the spirits of a city that has fallen on hard times. Leading the charge, bands like Rotary Downs have been touring to packed houses in Louisiana and around the country. Their sound is a good mix of soulful NOLA jazz rhythms, modern guitar and inspired lyrics.The rebirth of the New Orleans music scene has lifted the spirits of a city that has... more
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Social Dress New Orleans - 730 After
Takashi Horisaki and a small team of volunteers were working 20-hour days in the 100-degree heat when OPP found them completing an art project in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. Working on a largely abandoned block of the city, they worked with a mission to remind people of "what is still happening" in NOLA two years after the floods.
Takashi's ambitious media project involved the laborious process of covering the surface of the shotgun-style house in latex and cheesecloth to create a replica that itself could be "displaced" as a sculpture.
Falling Together in New Orleans: Vignette 4 looks at the process and motivations and then visits the artist and the sculpture at it's first home in New York City's Socrates Sculpture Park.
Takashi hopes to displace the sculpture across the U.S. and world to raise awareness about the still displaced people of New Orleans struggling to return home.
The film features music by Kevn Kinney. (http://www.kevnkinney.com)Social Dress New Orleans - 730 After
Takashi Horisaki and a small team of... more
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Emergency Communities is a non-profit organization that employs compassion and creativity to provide community-based disaster relief. Since Katrina, they have operated four relief sites, served over 300,000 meals and 25,000 residents of the Gulf. emergencycommunities.org
They run entirely on volunteers and donations.
The above clip (running time aprox. 17 minutes) is from June 2007 from the Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans. Emergency Communities set up thier first relief center in St. Bernards Parish in Fall 2005 (featured in Vignette 2)
Thanks to Katie Fogle and the St. Albans Church Youth Group and Volunteers for footage that was inspiring to edit and produce. One of the most exciting things about solo journalism is letting the stories tell themselves and this is one that does that so easily. As Louise says in the video "it is hard to get people to understand what it's still like here, but we will see what happens...". Yes we will. Thanks to everyone who makes Emergency Communities come true. Emergency Communities is a non-profit organization that employs compassion and... more
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