Free Local Screening Of 'Left Behind"

Free Local Screening of
Left Behind: The Story of the New Orleans Public Schools

February 26, 2009: Freeman Auditorium - Woldenberg Art Center at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. 6 pm. Click here for a campus map.

What the Film is About

Left Behind is a 90-minute documentary that tells the story of three African-American high school seniors as they navigate through their final year of high school. Their final year in one of the poorest cities in the state; in a state ranked as the poorest in America; in one of the most violent cities, states and countries in the industrialized world.

The film, shot before, during and after Hurricane Katrina, shows how an uneducated impoverished population reacts under the stress. Our never-before-seen Katrina footage highlights our two-year-long documentary. We show reasons for the looting, rape, murder and mayhem -- the effects our man-made environment has on human behavior. We examine the core of our American values, the framework by which we live, and we show how our most vaunted beliefs and government policies have played a role in our nation's shame.

Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Jessie Jackson, Ice T, Congressmen William Jefferson and Maxine Waters, author Michael Eric Dyson, Jim Derleth (US AID Specialist in development and conflict resolution assigned to East and West Africa) and others accent our narrative.

Directed by Vincent Morelli and Jason Berry
Written, Edited, Produced by Vincent Morelli
MedArt Productions LLC

E-mail: leftbehindmovie@gmail.com

http://www.neworleansleftbehind.com/

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