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FAUBOURG TREME
The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Lolis Eric Elie, a New Orleans newspaperman, takes us on a tour of the city – his city – in what becomes a reflection on the relevance of history folded into a love letter to the storied New Orleans neighborhood, Faubourg Treme. Arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America and the birthplace of jazz, Faubourg Treme was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South during slavery and a hotbed of political ferment. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor cohabitated, collaborated, and clashed to create America's first Civil Rights movement and a unique American culture. Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans is a riveting tale of heartbreak, hope, resiliency and haunting historic parallels.
While the Treme district was damaged when the levees broke, this is not another Katrina documentary. Long before the flood, two native New Orleanians—one black, one white—writer Lolis Eric Elie and filmmaker Dawn Logsdon, began documenting the rich living culture of this historic district. Miraculously, their tapes survived the disaster unscathed. The completed film, Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, which critics have called "devastating", "charming", and "revelatory" is a powerful testament to why New Orleans matters, and why this most un-American of American cities must be saved.
Elie and director Dawn Logsdon make clear the city's present, up through Katrina, remains steeped in its past- one that, for New Orleans, naturally includes an emphasis on music, heightened here by Derrick Hodge's original jazz score and over a hundred years of New Orleans music. This is a film of ideas, a historical film, a personal film and a celebration of place.
- Directed by Dawn Logsdon
- Co-Directed & Written by Lolis Eric Elie
- Produced by Lucie Faulknor, Dawn Logsdon, & Lolis Eric Elie
- Edited by Dawn Logsdon, Sam Green & Aljernon Tunsil
- Directors of Photography: Diego Velasco, Keith Smith & Bobby Shepard
- Executive Producers: Stanley Nelson & Wynton Marsalis
- Original Score by Derrick Hodge
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Faubourg Treme:
The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
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The neighborhood of Faubourg Tremé gave the world much of what is special about New Orleans' rich expressive culture. Take an eye-opening journey through three centuries of African American history in this eye-opening and poignant film.
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Winner of the Award of Commendation from the Society for Visual Anthropology 1. Intro - Spirit of Treme 2. Resistance: Slavery & Free Black People 3. First Black Daily in the US 4. Reconstruction: From Promise to Defeat 5. Plessy Court Case 6. Jazz is Born 7. Urban Renewal and Displacement 8. Katrina and Its Aftermath With 20 years of experience in arts administration, Lucie Faulknor has worked with and produced several projects such as Ireland’s Women in Film and Video film festival, and San Francisco’s Artists Up-Close series. Dawn Logsdon was an acclaimed editor in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years until she returned to her New Orleans hometown in 1999 to begin work on her first feature-length directing debut. She has previously edited The Weather Underground and The Castro: Hidden Neighborhoods of San Francisco, and has directed and produced several short documentaries. Lolis Eric Elie is a writer and filmmaker based in New Orleans who is a respected food and culture critic, having published several anthologies on Southern food as well as a thrice-weekly column in theNew Orleans' Times-Picayune for 14 years. He is currently writing for the HBO series, Treme. Faubourg Treme is a co-production of Serendipity Films, LLC, Independent Television Service (ITVS), WYES TV12 New Orleans, Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) and National Black Programming Consortium (NPBC). Major funding for this program was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, State of Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, The Ford Foundation, Southern Humanities Media Fund, Open Society Institute, LEH & others. For a complete list please go to www.tremedoc.com The Faubourg Treme filmmakers are available for speaking engagements. Please visitwww.tremedoc.com for contact information. >via: http://newsreel.org/video/FAUBOURG-TREME |