Katrina Victims: Justice is Coming

We all need to learn more about this serious problem and what can be done for these nearly invisible victims.

Fortunately, a new movie brilliantly documents the story of 19 young survivors across the diverse socio-economic-racial spectrum of pre-Katrina New Orleans. Katrina’s Children is a documentary about these children’s representative perspectives, shifting between past and present and intermixing the children’s harrowing hurricane memories with scenes of their post-Katrina lives.

Filmed in 2006 shortly after the storm and directed by Laura Belsey (a zealous children’s advocate and New Orleans native), Katrina’s Children has been praised by the Times-Picayune as a “moving documentary” (“be prepared to have your heart broken”) and the American Library Association as “a film that convinces viewers the soul of the city is in the children.” The prestigious Booklist designated the movie as an “Editors’ Choice,” noting that “[t]he camera follows them as they explore the ruins of their homes, neighborhoods, and schools, struggling to come to grips with the tragedy.”

For more information about this remarkable oral history of the youngest and most emotionally vulnerable Katrina victims, check out http://www.katrinaschildren.com/web/html/h0200.html#.