Walking on Dead Fish... (1 Viewer)

[TPS]

Heard an interview with the guy who put this together this morning on NPR. It's the story of East St. John High in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as Laplace doubles in size and kids from all over New Orleans from various ethnic, religious and racial backgrounds get thrown into a situation without even enough equipment to face rival Hahnville High. Director Franklin Martin was from New Orleans but moved on after his parents had to leave following Hurricane Betsy in 1965. He returned 3 days after Katrina to begin filming the story which is narrated by Louisiana's own [tm] Terry Bradshaw, and Reggie Bush was also involved at the executive level.

This isn't a made-up feel good story, it's the actual story/documentary staring the real people involved from Coach Dauterive on down.

http://www.walkingondeadfish.com/

Should be a low-key piece and opens tonight at Elmwood for a limited engagement. I can't be in the city tonight to see it, but I'll probably pick up the DVD down the road.

ALSO

Opening tonight at Canal Place is another Katrina story TROUBLE THE WATER which was shot by 9th Ward Residents Kimberly and Scott Roberts beginning the day before landfall and continuing until her camera lost power. This film takes you behind the scenes like no other and won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance 2008.

http://troublethewaterfilm.com/content/pages/the_story/

TPS = Louisiana

http://troublethewaterfilm.com/

 

[geauxboy]

I want to see Trouble the Water and I had a chance to see a private screening, but I had previous plans. I met a guy who was in NYC trying to pitch it to anyone that would listen, but he wouldn't give me too many details about the piece.

 

[City Champ]

sounds like two flicks i would like to see...
good finds piggy

 

[ibelieve]

Im going to try to make it tonight to go see it. I know some kids that were on that team.

 

[efil4stnias]

they also spotlighted South Plaquemines that just beat Hahnville this week ( 1A beats a 5A ) and said a book has been written. Real good stories.

 

[TPS]

The thing is, it's hard for anyone who was here and dealt with the aftermath where you lived in the fetal position because FEMA was foot-dragging, your insurance company was promising you an adjuster for the nth time, you couldn't get power until you got an electrician, and you couldn't get a camper until you had power, flat tires, substantially reduced access to groceries, etc. It was a nightmare that many of us lived at different levels. It's still hard not to well up when anything "real" about Katrina is in the media (radio or television) because you know the pain of what happened - dead or lost family members (including 4-6 months after landfall), everyone you knew displaced across the country, immediate families spread over multiple cities and states (e.g. me in Dauphin Island, AL; ex-wife alternating between sharing a room at EJGH and Muhraruh; my kids in SW NY State; my dog in Bayou Lafourche). It was absolutely crazy. So perhaps the redemptive appeal 3 years after the fact will bring out some powerful imagery and help with some of the healing when we all still have the television images of those sitting on their roofs waiting for help, bloated bodies floating down the street, and the lives, people and places we knew forever changed.

TPS

 

[V Chip]

Hey TPS didn't you know that Trouble The Water is only propaganda? http://saintsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83570

 

[TPS]

*Staff edit*

JeffDaSaintsGuy: More JUNK propaganda....This is the kind of **** that reminds me why I left New Orleans.

Enjoy your life in white suburban Atlanta. I'm sure you fit in well there. We don't need you. The Falcons do as their fan base could use a little help. Please don't ever come back to my city.

Flippy: Where's my FEMA check? Why didn't they do a film about the million dollar houses that flooded in Old Metairie, Lake Vista,Mid City, Broadmore, Lakeview etc.? According to all media outlets, it's seems as if the lower ninth ward was the only place effected by Katrina. That prapaganda b.s. ****** me off.

*Staff edit*

Thanks for your time.

TPS

 

[Shawn]

Flippy: Where's my FEMA check? Why didn't they do a film about the million dollar houses that flooded in Old Metairie, Lake Vista,Mid City, Broadmore, Lakeview etc.? According to all media outlets, it's seems as if the lower ninth ward was the only place effected by Katrina. That prapaganda b.s. ****** me off.

If anyone actually said that, they must live in a self-referential reality. There's been plenty of broad based coverage of the consequences of the storm. Even Spike Lee's movie points out that plenty of places other than the 9th Ward shared equal devastation. People who say these kind of things mostly seemed to have reached their own conclusions about the storm without ever bothering to actually learn anything. All they needed to know was that some black kids stole some shoes, and that settled everything. Hell yeah, manh.

Someone should certainly do a film that covers all the destroyed million dollar houses in Mid-City.

Because there were so many.

 

[blackadder]

*Staff edit*

JeffDaSaintsGuy: More JUNK propaganda....This is the kind of **** that reminds me why I left New Orleans.

Enjoy your life in white suburban Atlanta. I'm sure you fit in well there. We don't need you. The Falcons do as their fan base could use a little help. Please don't ever come back to my city.

Flippy: Where's my FEMA check? Why didn't they do a film about the million dollar houses that flooded in Old Metairie, Lake Vista,Mid City, Broadmore, Lakeview etc.? According to all media outlets, it's seems as if the lower ninth ward was the only place effected by Katrina. That prapaganda b.s. ****** me off.

*Staff edit*

Thanks for your time.

TPS

 

[geauxboy]

*Staff edit*

JeffDaSaintsGuy: More JUNK propaganda....This is the kind of **** that reminds me why I left New Orleans.

Enjoy your life in white suburban Atlanta. I'm sure you fit in well there. We don't need you. The Falcons do as their fan base could use a little help. Please don't ever come back to my city.

Flippy: Where's my FEMA check? Why didn't they do a film about the million dollar houses that flooded in Old Metairie, Lake Vista,Mid City, Broadmore, Lakeview etc.? According to all media outlets, it's seems as if the lower ninth ward was the only place effected by Katrina. That prapaganda b.s. ****** me off.

*Staff edit*

Thanks for your time.

TPS

You geaux boy!

 

[Colin311]

Sounds interesting.

 

[FLIPPY]

If anyone actually said that, they must live in a self-referential reality. There's been plenty of broad based coverage of the consequences of the storm. Even Spike Lee's movie points out that plenty of places other than the 9th Ward shared equal devastation. People who say these kind of things mostly seemed to have reached their own conclusions about the storm without ever bothering to actually learn anything. All they needed to know was that some black kids stole some shoes, and that settled everything. Hell yeah, manh.

Someone should certainly do a film that covers all the destroyed million dollar houses in Mid-City.

Because there were so many.

Name the other places Spike Lee covered in his documentary besides the two white women in St. Bernard screaming about George Bush.

 

[MamaSaint]

Name the other places Spike Lee covered in his documentary besides the two white women in St. Bernard screaming about George Bush.

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/whentheleveesbroke/synopsis.html

Lee and his team selected close to 100 people from diverse backgrounds and representing a wide range of opinions to interview, including Governor Kathleen Blanco; Mayor Ray Nagin; residents Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Kimberly Polk, Shelton "Shakespeare" Alexander and Rev. Williams; activists Al Sharpton and Harry Belafonte; CNN's Soledad O'Brien; and musicians Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard and Kanye West.

I remember some socially prominent white New Orleans residents from the "good" neighborhoods. You must not have watched the whole thing.

Jan

 

[feoinfunroe]

*Staff edit*

JeffDaSaintsGuy: More JUNK propaganda....This is the kind of **** that reminds me why I left New Orleans.

Enjoy your life in white suburban Atlanta. I'm sure you fit in well there. We don't need you. The Falcons do as their fan base could use a little help. Please don't ever come back to my city.

Flippy: Where's my FEMA check? Why didn't they do a film about the million dollar houses that flooded in Old Metairie, Lake Vista,Mid City, Broadmore, Lakeview etc.? According to all media outlets, it's seems as if the lower ninth ward was the only place effected by Katrina. That prapaganda b.s. ****** me off.

*Staff edit*

Thanks for your time.

TPS