“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
― James Baldwin
This week marks ten years since Hurricane Katrina devasted the inhabitants of New Orleans. A nation watched in agony. A government responded with indifference.
Remember these images? Remember the way your heart sank to the pit of your stomach as you wondered how many dead bodies were floating in that water, next to those still trying make their way to safety?
Time Inc. decided to pay homage to the city and its residents by asking six filmmakers connected to the city to highlight stories from folks pressing their way in a post-Katrina New Orleans.
The docuseries, New Orleans, Here & Now, includes stories of an oyster farmer, a brass band, a quartet of high school seniors who were just 8 years old when Katrina hit, New Orleans native Tiffany Junot’s path to becoming the World Boxing Council welterweight world champion, and displaced New Orleanians rebuilding their lives in Houston.
Peep the Houston segment Two Cities, directed by award-winning filmmaker and Houston native Darius Clark Monroe by clicking here.
The series is produced and distributed by Time Inc., in partnership with Rampante, Killer Films (Still Alice, Boys Don’t Cry), and Field Office Films, a New Orleans-based company created by the producers of Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Click here for the full series.
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