No Ward (2009)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 11M
Director : Terence Nance
Sinopse
No Ward is a short documentary about the forced migration of New Orleans residents to cities in Texas. The film juxtaposes the migrations that occurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Gustav in 2008.
Um pequeno ato de heroísmo, após a passagem do furacão Katrina, resulta em uma promoção para o policial Terrence McDonagh, mas também em uma lesão nas costas que causa dores constantes. Os medicamentos não funcionam e ele começa a usar narcóticos, mergulhando no mundo da corrupção.
Após o furacão Katrina, uma mulher dá à luz a uma criança, mas acaba morrendo por complicações no parto. O pai, Nolan Hayes, precisa salvar seu bebê mesmo com a cidade vivendo o caos. Ele fará de tudo para buscar um gerador de energia e comida.
Quando quatro amigos de infância retornam ao Distrito Lower Ninth, em Nova Orleães, depois do furacão Katrina, eles encontram suas casas destruídas, e as perspectivas de trabalho são inexistentes. Sem alternativas, decidem recorrer a um gângster local, em busca de emprego, e são contratados para assaltar um cassino, no coração da cidade.
Alunos do ensino médio deslocados pelo furacão Katrina formam um time de basquete.
Uma série de coincidências geológicas desastrosas começam a ocorrer, criando o cenário para uma tempestade perfeita e formando o maior furacão da história da humanidade. Enquanto tenta sobreviver à tempestade, uma família é ameaçada por uma série de eventos interligados a esses desastres geológicos. E as coisas ficam ainda mais tensas porque essa mesma família já passou por um tragédia semelhante quando teve de lutar para sobreviver à destruição causada pelo furacão Katrina.
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Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The first, Jay Dee, was a feared and powerful crime boss who is humbled when he loses everything and winds up as a lowly clerk at a retail chain store. The second, Shawn, an underachieving poor kid from the neighborhood gets a fresh start and becomes a writer/novelist.
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MURDA CAPITAL documents the harsh reality of a post-Katrina New Orleans. Rapper, entrepreneur and New Orleans native K. Gates sets out into New Orleans most treacherous ghettos to discover the root of a cycle of killing. People from all factions of the city give their take on how murder has affected them directly and indirectly. Stories of a convicted murderer and a mother who lost all four sons to gun violence shivers the soul. Drugs, money, ignorance, ego, and envy make a deadly concoction which equates to the nation's highest murder rate for more than a decade. See how violence intertwines with the cities rich culture. Obtain access to the part of New Orleans hidden from tourist as K. Gates strives to 'Save The City'.
No Ward is a short documentary about the forced migration of New Orleans residents to cities in Texas. The film juxtaposes the migrations that occurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Gustav in 2008.
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A girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten very short stories, residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out atmospheric scenes of everyday life and the relentlessness of labor in their extreme landscape.
This no holds documentary chronicles the days before, during and after Hurricane Katrina. Told from the viewpoint of several families stuck in New Orleans, this moving and unflinching story says so much by saying so little. Most of this footage has never been seen by the public, and there is absolutely no stock footage used in this film.
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