Directed by Luisa Dantas • Documentary • 2011 • 97 minutes
Through the eyes of urban planners, community organizers, displaced youth, immigrant workers, and public housing residents, this verité-style documentary reveals how the story of New Orleans is the story of urban America: how democratic processes can fail us, how economic crisis can pull the rug out from under us, and how (im)migration can prove to be a complicated bargain. As cities all over the world struggle to recover from disaster, whether economic, natural, or man-made, the lessons of post-Katrina New Orleans have only become more urgent. In the twenty years since Katrina, our tagline, "Happening to a City Near You" has sadly proved all-too prescient.
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The Collector of Bedford Street
Directed by Alice Elliott • Documentary • With Larry Selman • 2001 • 34 minutes
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The Caretaker
Directed by Theo Rigby • Documentary • 2014 • 7 minutes
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