Presenter: Jordan Flaherty
The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival presents the world's most powerful and complete selection of films from New Orleans, dealing with grassroots responses to Katrina and its aftermath. From The Katrina Story, a film by New Orleans Bounce music legend Tenth Ward Buck, dealing with his experience during Katrina in the flooded and abandoned New Orleans East, and his evacuation to the Houston Astrodome, to a powerful selection of films by New Orleans high school students, to other short films about New Orleans culture and post-Katrina organizing by established New Orleans filmmakers, this film program will present vital first-hand perspectives from New Orlerans. Many of the films shown have not been seen outside of New Orleans.
