"A new documentary finally captures the real New Orleans on film... Flat out brilliant ...This is a great piece of storytelling, filmmaking and testifying. It is also, arguably, the most poignant film ever made about New Orleans... See it as soon as you can. It will make you smile and cry and fall in love with New Orleans all over again. Some of us need that now more than ever."
-- J.B.Borders, New Orleans Tribune



Lincoln Bicentennial
This film presentation is part of Spokane's Lincoln Festival, endorsed by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.


Fauborg Tremé:
The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

(USA, 2008, 68 mins.)

Directed by
Dawn Logsdon, Lolis Eric Elie
Executive Producers:
Stanley Nelson, Wynton Marsalis
Producers:
Lucie Faulknor, Dawn Logsdon, Lolis Eric Elie
Screenplay:
Lolis Eric Elie
Camera:
Diego Velasco, Keith L. Smith, Bobby Shepard
Editor:
Dawn Logsdon, Sam Green, Aljernon Tunsil
Music:
Derrick Hodge
Screening Format:
DigiBeta
Awards and Honors:
Best Documentary at Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival 2008, Golden Gate Award at San Francisco International Film Festival 2008, Best Documentary at San Francisco Black Film Festival 2008, Best Documentary at Flyaway Film Festival, Official Selection of the Tribeca Film Festival.

Before Katrina, before a lot of the everyday history most people know about, was Faubourg Tremé, a section of New Orleans called "the Sixth Ward." The film is a powerful statement of reminiscence, told in low-key by New Orleans Picayune columnist, Lolis Elie, who takes us on a fascinating historical tour of what is near and dear to him. Furthermore, the births of the Civil Rights movement and jazz largely emanated from there. Faubourg Tremé represents a place of birth and rebirth, and though the film doesn't focus on Katrina, save for a few comments at the end, it's just as well. We see wonderful archival film and learn something new that we all should remember about a people and place of birth and rebirth--essentially a story of the unvanquished. Sweet and compelling, it's about living to love and build and fight again. Watch the trailer for Faubourg Tremé.

Rating:
Suitable for all audiences.

Contemporary Arts Alliance wishes to acknowledge the partnership of Lolis Eric Elie in presenting Faubourg Tremé.

Read the review in Short End Magazine

Preceded by

Downstream

(USA, 2008, 35 mins.)

Written and Directed by
Leslie Iwerks
Producers:
Philip Alberstat, Randy Bradshaw, Mark Cranwell
Associate Producer:
Ribert Hilton
Editors:
Leslie Iwerks, Stephen Myers
Camera:
Suki Medencevic, Steven D. Smith
Music:
Mike Shields
Executive in Charge of Production:
Claudio Scotto Di Carlo
Screening Format:
DigiBeta
Downstream tells the heartbreaking, yet hopeful, story of the people of Ft. Chipewyan and their resolve to stop the strip mining of oil and pollution of their water in Canada’s Boreal forest. The story of the community’s deep inner resources and the committed Doctor who comes to their aid is uplifting, even as it is set against the daunting larger tale of our oil addiction and those who conspire to feed it (Melanie Nakagawa, Attorney, International Program, Natural Resources Defense Council).

Contemporary Arts Alliance wishes to acknowledge the partnership of Leslie Iwerks in presenting Downstream. Leslie Iwerks screened her Academy Award-nominated Recycled Life at SpIFF in 2007.

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