Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008)

Directors

Dawn Logsdon

The story

The film uses interviews, live footage and archival material to tell the story of Tremé and the relevance of its context in not only Black history, but the greater American history as well. The film follows Lolis Eric Elie and the renovation of his Tremé home following Hurricane Katrina. The progress of the renovation of Elie's home reveals the neighborhood's riveting yet neglected past and eventually emerges as an eloquent and meaningful metaphor for the general state of reconstruction post-Katrina in New Orleans.

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