Apparently four hours just weren’t enough… Spike Lee is returning to New Orleans this month for a follow-up for his epic Hurricane Katrina documentary When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. The sequel will air on HBO later this summer, sometime around the five year anniversary of the disaster (which will be on August 29th).
The plan is for Lee to revisit some of the subjects who appeared in the first film, but also to expand beyond The Big Easy and look at the effects of Katrina along the Gulf Coast as well. Considering that the tragedy has probably already faded from a lot of people’s minds, it will be a good chance to remind people about what happened, and also to evaluate whether or not such a thing could potentially ever happen again.
Interesting to note: HBO also has a new series premiering in April called Treme, from David Simon, creator of The Wire, that takes place in NoLA, post-Katrina. Check out a teaser for Treme after the jump.
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I was so moved by the documentary that I sent an email to our government and our congress about NOLA. No Mental Health Care, Public Housing or schools! What is going on in America when our own people are treated like nothing, I am so upset by the information I have received that I am grief stricken myself. I will end this with a poem by my mentor:
Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions. Be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits. Be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character. Be careful of your character, for your character becomes your destiny!!!!!