What s a 2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee about the devastation of New Orleans, American Movie or When the Levees Broke ?
American Movie American Movie is a 1999 documentary film directed by Chris Smith. The film chronicles the real 1996–97 making of "Coven", an independent horror film directed by filmmaker Mark Borchardt. Produced for the purpose of raising capital for another film that Borchardt intends to make, the epic "Northwestern," "Coven" suffers from numerous setbacks, including poor financing, a lack of planning, Borchardt's burgeoning alcoholism, and the ineptitude of the friends and family Borchardt hires as his production team. The documentary follows Borchardt's filmmaking process from script to screen, and is interspersed with footage from both developing projects. "American Movie" was produced by Sarah Price and edited by Jun Diaz and Barry Poltermann.
Jed Horne Jed Horne is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was for many years city editor of "The Times-Picayune", the New Orleans daily newspaper. He is the author of two books: "Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City" (Random House, 2006, updated 2008), which chronicled Hurricane Katrina and the city's gradual recovery, and "Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans" (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005), the story of a Louisiana death row case. Horne was named a senior consultant to President Obama's bipartisan National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling following the 2010 blowout of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2013 he made a documentary about the Fukushima tsunami and reactor disaster, that was broadcast on Japan's public television network, NHK. He has been interviewed by numerous radio and television personalities, including Terry Gross, Amy Goodman, Charlie Rose, and Tavis Smiley. With initial funding from George Soros, he helped,along with Ariella Cohen and Karen Gadbois to found http://thelensnola.org/, an investigative website focused on New Orleans governance.