Faubourg Tremé: new New Orleans docu

Premiered recently in SF and NYC. Snip from description:

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. It is a film of such effortless intimacy, subtle glances and authentic details that only two native New Orleanians could have made it.

Link, trailer. (thanks, Clayton James Cubitt)

[#1 posted by doktor tchock , May 10, 2008 8:21 PM]

man, new orleans swing never fails to put a smile on my face.

[#2 posted by bunnyman2112 , May 10, 2008 8:40 PM]

And, as usual here in New Orleans, this is the first anyone here's heard about it...

[#3 posted by the boy , May 10, 2008 9:37 PM]

Excellent stuff! Treme's a fascinating neighborhood. I once did some work at Craig Elementary there, which is across the street from what is now Louis Armstrong park, and which was once Congo Square. http://www.nps.gov/archive/jazz/Armstrong%20Park_congo_square.htm)

We dug up bricks (slave bricks, the architecture professor claimed) in our attempt to plant some trees. There were at least three layers of sidewalk beneath the grass. It was really cool.

[#4 posted by Tamu , May 10, 2008 10:16 PM]

Oh, I look forward to this.

[#5 posted by strider_mt2k , May 11, 2008 4:33 AM]

I was bummed when the trailer ended!

Yes I will enjoy this too I think.

[#6 posted by marteen , May 11, 2008 7:58 PM]

I don't know what the previous poster is talking about, I know of at least three screenings this film had, here in NOLA, last winter and this Spring. And, this is an awesome doc. One of the most fantastic pieces of footage is that of the majestic Oak trees that once divided Claiborne Ave. going through Treme. Anyone who's familiar with that street today knows its towered over by eight elevated lanes of I-10 without a tree in sight.

[#7 posted by BattyMcDougall , May 11, 2008 10:04 PM]

I am looking forward to seeing this piece of documentary magic.
I hope distribution allows me to view it within the next nine months.

[#8 posted by meep , May 12, 2008 4:07 PM]

BUNNYMAN2112, this screened last fall at OUR New Orleans Film Festival and has screened at other events in the city thanks to our thriving film society. Check the Gambit or the Lagniappe and you might catch it next time.