Kamp Katrina, an award winning cinéma vérité documentary, follows a small group of people who have taken refuge in a garden transformed into a tent city by an extraordinary New Orleans couple, Ms. Pearl and her husband, David. Kamp Katrina focuses on the dialectic between madness and hope in their pursuit of stability.

Awards

• SXSW Emerging Visions
• Special Jury Award: Independent Film Festival of Boston
• Best Documentary: Magnolia Film Festival
• Special Jury Award: Nashville Film Festival
• MOMA special screening
• Top of the List: The Best of Editor's Choice: Booklist
• Southern Film Circuit

Reviews

• “Fascinating... Achieve[s] potent dramatic and emotional impact... Artful, beautiful visual flourishes.” Joe Leydon, Variety
• “Kamp Katrina is an urban platoon movie. Its setting looks like a combat zone...” Stuart Klawans, The Nation
• “The movie's [a] portrait of New Orleans after the flood, a debris-strewn ghost town where human kindness is overflowing...” The New York Times
• “Poignant documentary captures beautifully and unflinchingly a harrowing breakdown of social order. The result is a slight little film with a remarkable generosity of spirit.” New York Magazine

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