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| 'New Orleans Music in Exile' documentary New Orleans filmmakers Stephen Rue and Gabriel Dayan have gone through a personal and emotional journey as they have just completed filming over 250 hours of footage (over the last 11 months) for their upcoming feature length documentary film titled "New Orleans Story." Filmmaker and attorney Stephen Rue, a life long New Orleanian had started filming a documentary in the lower ninth ward of New Orleans three months prior to Hurricane Katrina destroying his city. He and his colleague Gabriel Dayan were producing a film regarding the Habitat for Humanity efforts in this impoverished area of New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina took aim on the Gulf Coast, Rue's home and law offices were flooded and the city that he knew and loved were changed forever, The cameras continued to roll as the documentary also changed.. Rue and fellow filmmaker Dayan found themselves in the midst of the largest natural disaster in American history. Rue states, "No one who is not from New Orleans can truly tell the New Orleans Story. We had no choice, it had become a personal mission to record history in the making and let the camera come along on this journey that we share with our extended family of Hurricane Katrina victims." "I have been in attics where people have died, " Rue said. "We have been with homeowners as they see their destroyed homes for the very first time. We have shared tears with those who were once strangers." Rue continued, "Our goal is to have the most contemporaneous and comprehensive film made regarding Hurricane Katrina" Stephen Rue concluded by saying, "As Americans go on with their own lives, we strive to let the people know that the tragedy continues; we must all heed the lessons learned at the expense of the lives lost and our great American city left in a wake of destruction and despair." write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |