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IN THE EARLY SPRING OF 2007…

In the early Spring of 2007, I put an ad on Craigslist trying to find a room for 3 nights in New Orleans.  A man named Jim Thibodeaux answered and said I could stay on his couch, for nothing.  This was the beginning of a journey that in a sense is finally ending today.

I had decided to go to New Orleans to try and find some families that would allow me to film them for one day, to make a film contrasting different families in the post-Katrina world. I wanted to make a movie that just focussed on life- no interviews, no mention of the storm except what came up.  The New Orleans I found was sublime, powerful, calm, wild, incredibly exciting and welcoming.  The families I ended up filming were the same- sublime, powerful, calm, wild, exciting and welcoming.  

In 2010, I released the film

Who was I to make this film?  Who was I to enter these families lives for a couple days?