JMRL Documentary Film

The last Thursday of the month, come view and discuss documentary films on current issues. Light refreshments will be provided. Sign up to be added to the film email list: central@jmrl.org

The first film: FAUBOURG TREMÉ: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS Directed by Dawn Logsdon. A riveting tale of hope, heartbreak and resiliency set in New Orleans' most fascinating neighborhood. 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. Lolis Eric Elie, the award-winning New Orleans newspaperman who wrote, produced and narrates this deeply felt documentary, 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.