Trailer: FAUBOURG TREMÉ

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans.

Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone. Faubourg Tremé is arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement in the South and the home of jazz. While the Tremé district was damaged when the levees broke, this is not another Katrina documentary. Every frame is a tribute to what African American communities have contributed even under the most hostile of conditions..

Here's the trailer:


Link, Boingboing.

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