Katrina: Five Years Later New Orleans: Jazz Funerals From The Inside

Dir. David M. Jones, 1995, 59 mins.

While The Carter focuses on one of New Orleans’ most distinct contemporary musicians, this program thoroughly looks at the rich and colorful development of a historical tradition that has become an icon of the Crescent City. Hosted and narrated by Milton Batiste, Jr. the late trumpet player/manager of Dejan's Olympia Brass Band, Jazz Funerals from the Inside tells of this fascinating celebration of death from the perspective of musicians, family and scholars. The program was given the highest rating by the New Orleans Times-Picayune and has been a local PBS staple for membership drives since 1995.

7:30 pm

Sound After the Storm

Dir. Patrik Soergel, Ryan Fenson-Hood, Sven O. Hill, 2009, 80 mins.

Three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is part ghost town and part third world country. Well known musicians Lillian Boutté, Dr. Michael White and photographer Armand “Sheik” Richardson use jazz as a philosophy and tool to save themselves and their abandoned, crumbling city. The Sound After the Storm tells a story in which this “music born of slavery” is reborn in response to Katrina’s devastation.

Q&A with dir. Ryan Fenson-Hood and Today dir. Naftali Beane Rutter

Katrina: Five Years Later Trouble the Water

Dir. Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, 2008, 90 min.

Academy Award-nominated "Trouble the Water" tells a story of one extraordinary family's survival of the flooding of New Orleans after Katrina, and their journey into a new life. Time Magazine's Richard Corliss called it "[A]n endlessly moving, artlessly magnificent tribute to people the government didn't think worth saving." Directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal and executive produced by Danny Glover, "Trouble the Water" won the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and was named one of the top ten films of 2008 by critics at Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker.

- added by sara 08/17

8:30

Today

Dir. Naftali Beane Rutter, 2010, 70 mins.

Today is the only film of its kind, the true story of one day in the life of three families in New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina. Stylistically bold, each scene shot with gripping intimacy, this film is about far more than just New Orleans. In the heroism of Robert McPeek, a policeman patrolling the crime ridden city, in the struggle of Alice and Lewis Blaise to catch just one fish to feed their children, in the tragic life passions of young Angelo Stanich Jr.--amidst three fascinating families and their prayers, songs, fights, laughter, and love, Today is the story of a day in the life of America, in all of its beautiful, disturbing, hilarious glory.

Q&A with dir. Naftali Beane Rutter