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Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
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75 min | Documentary

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Wade in the Water, Children (2007)

Not Rated

75 min | Documentary

Through a passionate mixture of private videos, uncensored interviews and school-day adventures, the children of New Orleans' notoriously violent Central City neighborhood have created a riveting portrait of childhood at the heart of an ...See moreThrough a passionate mixture of private videos, uncensored interviews and school-day adventures, the children of New Orleans' notoriously violent Central City neighborhood have created a riveting portrait of childhood at the heart of an ongoing American crisis. No one set out to make a film: six months after Katrina, filmmakers Elizabeth Wood and Gabriel Nussbaum moved to New Orleans with a free art program, devised to help students creatively express their thoughts in response to the chaos of the storm. Their documentary-filmmaking class at Singleton Charter School at the local YMCA invited students to take video cameras home, and tell their stories on their own terms. The results quickly transcended the classroom. 300 hours of deeply personal video-tape later, "Wade in the Water, Children" took shape. Through their own remarkably honest and unusual footage, we enter the students shuttered housing projects, fractured families, flooded homes and darkened streets. We discover a New Orleans that was a disaster long before Katrina, a place where role models are scarce and gun violence is normal. The children reveal a New Orleans that adults are afraid to discuss, and that a conventional film crew could never penetrate. "Wade in the Water, Children" offers a poetic and devastating look at life in the Crescent City through the eyes of its youngest citizens. See less

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Wilie Batiste Actor Actor See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Avis Brock Actress Actress See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Jonathon Brookin Actor Actor See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Alfred Cobbins Actor Actor See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Barbara Cook Actress Actress See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Jessica Duhon Actress Actress See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Brenton Edwards Actor Actor See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Douglas Evans Actor Actor See fewer	ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series (2007)
Rose Gilliam Actress Actress See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Tawanee Green Actress Actress See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Anitra Howard Actress Actress See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Troy Johnson Actor Actor See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Mitch Landrieu Actor Actor See fewer	The First 48 (2004)
Nathaniel Lang Actor Actor See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Derion Mathis Actor Actor See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Darryle Montgomery Actor Actor See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Mikeisha Muse Actress Actress See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Ray Nagin Actor Actor See fewer	Labou (2008)
Gabriel Nussbaum Actor Actor See fewer	White Girl (2016)
Dashone Reynolds Actor Actor See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Latrelle Sawyer Actress Actress See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Keith Singleton Actor Actor See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Kathleen Stokes Actress Actress See fewer	Buttleman (2003)
Anitra Williams Actress Actress See fewer	Wade in the Water, Children (2007)
Elizabeth Wood Actress Actress See fewer	White Girl (2016)