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== Preview ==
 
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If you're on the Williams campus, you can watch the high-resolution copy of the film '''[http://rain-stars.com/rs/movies/flv/player/?filename=http://cs.williams.edu/~yh1/storage/beyond-the-french-quarter-nola.flv&height=480&width=640&external=true&autostart=true here]'''.
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If you're on the Williams campus, you can watch the high-resolution copy of the film '''[http://rain-stars.com/rs/movies/flv/player/?filename=http://cs.williams.edu/~yh1/storage/beyond-the-french-quarter-nola.flv&height=480&width=640&external=true&autostart=true here]''' (Flash video).
  
 
Watch on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN1AR-A0Cfc&fmt=6 YouTube].
 
Watch on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN1AR-A0Cfc&fmt=6 YouTube].
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Running Time: 08 minutes 50 seconds
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Official website: [http://www.purplevalleyfilms.com/nola http://www.purplevalleyfilms.com/nola]
 
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[http://www.purplevalleyfilms.com/pvf/?page_id=79 Purple Valley Films captures strife ongoing in post-Katrina New Orleans] (Williams Record, April 2008)
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[http://www.purplevalleyfilms.com/pvf/?page_id=79 Purple Valley Films captures strife ongoing in post-Katrina New Orleans] (Akemi M. Ueda, ''Williams Record'', April 2008)

Latest revision as of 20:33, December 4, 2008

Produced by Purple Valley Films, Beyond the French Quarter is a student documentary production that captures the unconventional accounts of youth volunteers in New Orleans. Follow us beyond the cameras and tourists, as we try to find hope in the areas that still haunt of desolation three years after Hurricane Katrina.

Preview

If you're on the Williams campus, you can watch the high-resolution copy of the film here (Flash video).

Watch on YouTube.

Technical details

Title: Beyond the French Quarter

Date of completion: October 2008

Form/Genre: Documentary/Short

Running Time: 08 minutes 49 seconds

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Language: English

Background of this project

In March 2008, our eight-person production team visited New Orleans. We were all members of Purple Valley Films, an independent student film production company in Williams College, MA. Funded by the College, this project is not only about doing community services and helping with the reconstruction in the region over the Spring Break; it is about telling our peers stories of the City of Jazz three years after Hurricane Katrina. During our one-week stay, we talked to people — college volunteers hammering on roofs, ordinary folks, kids in the neighborhood, the homeless in Tent City — and filmed the interviews. We captured images of the destruction and reconstruction, faces of volunteers and local residents. In the French Quarter there may be parties, neon lights, tourists, fine dining and jazz; beyond that, there is still a lot to be done.

Poster

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External Links

Official website: http://www.purplevalleyfilms.com/nola

Purple Valley Films captures strife ongoing in post-Katrina New Orleans (Akemi M. Ueda, Williams Record, April 2008)