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Wednesday,
October 4 at
7pm
Scribe
Video Center presents
When
the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Parts 2 + 3
dir.
Spike Lee, USA, 2006, BetaSP, approx
140 mins, color
Presented
in collaboration with HBO
Producer
and Supervising Editor Sam Pollard screens and discusses
Acts
2 and 3
 Hurricane
Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Like many who watched
the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was
shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow,
inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery
effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy,
a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. "Spike
wanted to offer multiple points of view," says his longtime
editor, Sam Pollard. "He needed to represent the voices
from the community, the different levels of government, activists
and the celebrity element to provide a balanced take on the
issues facing New Orleans." Structured in four acts, the
film examines the collision of race and politics in
the
aftermath of the storm.
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