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With Glen David Andrews, Harold Evans, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin. Faubourg Treme documents the enduring legacy of one of the United States' oldest African American communities, an area just outside the French Quarter of New Orleans.
- (90)
- Documentary
- Dawn Logsdon
- 2008-04
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, is a 2008 documentary film directed by Dawn Logsdon and written by Lolis Eric Elie. Featuring a cast of local musicians, artists and writers, the film relates the history of New Orleans' Tremé neighborhood.
Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. Past and present collide in this powerful documentary about Faubourg Treme, the fabled New Orleans' neighborhood that gave birth to jazz, launched America's first black daily newspaper, and nurtured generations of African American activists.
Feb 1, 2009 · The Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. Nestled at the edge of New Orleans’ fabled French Quarter, Faubourg Tremé is one of America’s oldest African American neighborhoods: it is also the origin of the civil rights movement in the South, and the birthplace of jazz.
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans is riveting tale of hope, heartbreak and resilience set in New Orleans’ most fascinating neighborhood. Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone.
Dawn Logsdon uses pre-hurricane video to detail how the story of a Katrina-ravaged New Orleans black neighborhood constitutes a guide to the bitter failure of Reconstruction. While this is,...
Faubourg Tremé is a first-person documentary by New Orleans natives Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Eric Elie. Drawing on several years of pre-Hurricane Katrina footage, the film brings alive the history of Black New Orleans through an in-depth look at one historic neighborhood, the Faubourg Tremé.