KAMP KATRINA BOOKINGS

We are currently booking Kamp Katrina in theatres, colleges, Human Rights organizations, and special screenings. Please email, info (at) carnivalesquefilms.com with queries. We are currently updating the theatrical screenings and will soon announce several more venues. Kamp Katrina is available to colleges for $305.00. You can order the DVD by clicking "Pay Now." 

   

THEATRICAL SCREENINGS

Houston Institute for Culture, Houston, TX August TBA 

 

PREVIOUS SCREENINGS 

World Premiere: South by Southwest: (Austin, TX)

Magnolia Film Festival (West Point, MS)

True False Film Festival (Columbia, MO)

Florida Film Festival

AFI Dallas (Dallas, TX)

All Souls Film Series (Kansas City, MO)

New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival (New Orleans, LA)

Nashville Film Festival (Nashville, TN)

Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)

Independent Film Festival of Boston (Boston, MA)

Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore, Maryland)

Artsfest Film Festival, (Harrisburg, PA)

Hands on Miami, (Miami, FL)

Real to Reel Film Festival (Kings Mountain, NC)

The Culture Project, Women Center Stage, (NY, NY)

The Thin Line Film Festival (Denton, TX)

Museum of Modern Art, MOMA (NY, NY) August 23, Time TBA

Pioneer Theatre (NY, NY) August 24-30. 

Real Art Ways Cinema (Hartford, CT) August 24-30

Facets Cinematheque (Chicago, IL) August 31 - September 6

Dev-Zone (Aotearoa, New Zealand) August 29, Time TBA

Boston Cares (Boston, MA) August 29, Time TBA

Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (New Orleans, LA) August 29

Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI) September 7-9

Time and Space Limited (Hudson, NY) September 17  

Clinton Street Theater (Portland, OR) September 14-19

Bluestockings Bookstore (NY, NY) September 20 

Camden International Film Festival (Camden, ME) Sept 27-30

Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, AL) September 28-30 

Texas State University, San Marcos (San Marcos, TX) October 15 

Rag Tag Theatre (Columbia, MO) October 19, 5:30PM & October 20, 1:30PM

DocLisboa (Lisboa, Portugal) October 18-28 

Document 5, International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (Scotland, UK) October 17-20 

Columbia County Film Festival (Chatham, NY) October 18-21 

Community College of Baltimore County, Maryland. October 25, 12:45 and 2:10 

Echo Park Film Center Human Rights Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA) October 28, noon

Modified Arts (Phoenix, AZ) October

Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (New Orleans, LA) November 3, 8:00PM

Global Visions (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) Sat, November 3

Connecticut College (New London, CT) Sunday November 4, 4PM, Olin 014 

Crown Point Film Festival (NY, NY) October 27-November 17 

Olympia Film Festival (Olympia, WA) November 2-10 

Asheville Film Festival (Asheville, NC) November 8-11

Trail Dance Film Festival (Duncan, OK) January 11-13 

Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI) January 17-20

Georgia Museum of Art, March 12. 7:00pm - Athens, Georgia

Nickelodeon Theatre, March 13. 7:00pm - Columbia, South Carolina

Arts Council of Beaufort County, March 14. 7:30pm - Beaufort, South Carolina

I.P. Stanback Museum and Plantetarium, March 16. 5:00pm - Orangeburg, South Carolina

Capri Theater, March 17. 7:00pm - Montgomery, Alabama

Mobile Arts Council, March 18. 7:00pm - Mobile, Alabama

Manship Theatre, March 19. 7:30pm - Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Duncan Theater, March 20. 7:00pm - Lake Worth, Florida.

 

AWARDS

Special Jury Prize, Independent Film Festival of Boston

Honorable Mention, Nashville Film Festival

Best Documentary, Magnolia Film Festival

 

PRESS 

Directors Notes Interview 

WNPR Radio Interview with Ashley Sabin 

NY Sun Article on Kamp Katrina 

The Reeler Interview 

Kam Williams Review 

WTIC 1080 Radio interview 

KOPN radio interview with Ashley Sabin about Kamp Katrina. Once at the link click on Women's Issues and you will see the show archived and can listen from there.

"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. Its characters, who are numerous at first and varied, get picked off by ones and twos until only a couple are left. You settle in with these people and become immersed in the chaos, brutality and surreal humor of their situation, seen close-up and often in fragments."  Stuart Klawans, The Nation 

"The couple’s mostly white, working-class and poor guests include addicts, petty criminals and a mentally ill man who says Joan of Arc is his girlfriend...Their blunt-spoken decency is inspiring. So is the movie’s portrait of New Orleans after the flood, a debris-strewn ghost town where human kindness is overflowing." 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 

"Bizarrely entertaining, refreshing, and revealing." Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper 

"In the days following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleanians Ms. Pearl and David turned their backyard into a tent village and gave their new tenants construction jobs. Among those they help is Kelley, who was a month pregnant when the hurricane hit. In the sanitized Dateline version, David and Ms. Pearl would be neighborhood saints presented for our edification, and the birth of Kelley’s baby would give a nice, hopeful ending to the story. This ain’t Dateline. Think of this as a supplement to Spike Lee’s miniseries When the Levees Broke, which offers a panoramic take on Katrina. Redmon and Sabin stay closer to the ground, capturing the struggles of a few people, warts and all. It isn’t pretty, but it’s a necessary and compelling piece of reportage." Chicago Time-Out

"For a sweeping overview of how the Hurricane Katrina disaster unfolded and the long list of who's to blame, watch Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Broke." For a much more micro look at the storm's impact upon a small band of New Orleans eccentrics, there's David Redmon and Ashley Sabin's "Kamp Katrina." Chicago Tribune

"Kamp Katrina" envelops this chaos in surreal, grainy shots of night skies spiked by lightning." Chicago Sun

"Kamp Katrina captures the city's wounded spirit more frankly than any of its contemporaries." The Reeler 

"Kamp Katrina remains transfixing. It stands out as a haunting and colorful story." Nora Ankrum, Austin Chronicle

“A new and harrowing kind of Hurricane Katrina survival story.” John DeFore, Austin American Statesman

"As much a study of personal character as a commentary on life after the hurricane that destroyed New Orleans, Kamp Katrina will make your mind spin as you watch selflessness personified and simultaneously wonder if you would do the same." Emily Halonen, Vox Picks

"A standout movie ... Kamp Katrina is a snapshot of the slowly evolving human dramas in the aftermath of the hurricane." Michael Barnes and Chris Garcia, Austin American Statesman

"First-time director Ashley Sabin and “Mardi Gras: Made in China” director David Redmon, have created a gripping documentary about the fringe society that has nowhere else to turn for help. Quirky upbeat music, flashes of colorful costumes, and occasional bursts of humor elevate this tragedy to a mesmerizing study of humanity under the worst conditions." Leslie Halpern, Ezine

"The desperation is palpable, and the people, many of whom seem to have stumbled from one purgatory into another, struggle with each other, themselves and the enormity of their losses ... Directors Ashley Sabin and David Redmon let the narratives unfold without imposing themselves, and the result is an arresting film that feels both surreal and utterly alive." Steve Haruch, Nasville Scene 

"Kamp Katrina packs an emotional punch." Michael Lerman, Indiewire

“Kamp Katrina is a refreshing, unbiased turn that promises to keep the movie fresh for years to come, rather than expiring with irrelevance after the next election cycle.” Matt Cale, Ruthless Reviews

"Kamp Katrina captures an exceptionally pathos-rich tale. The personal dramas and tense struggles of the residents are moving, but the hostility they face from the powers-that-be is saddening in its bureaucratic predictability." Jason Ferguson, Orlando Weekly

"Kamp Katrina offers a fairly uninterrupted view of life as it unfolds...for people who try to maintain some semblance of normalcy under extraordinary circumstances." Agnes Varnum, Indiewire

"Must see film! Harsh life in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans is shown in vivid detail in this documentary about a woman who opens her home and yard to others displaced by the storm." Access Atlanta 

"An unbelievable raw and honest story told in a non-judgemental way. Gut wrenching." Michael Tully, Indiewire

"A joy to see. Kamp Katrina puts a very real human face on post-Katrina New Orleans." Enrique Gomez, Quirkee 

 

KAMP KATRINA DESCRIPTION

Ms. Pearl — a New Orleans native — converts her backyard into a tent city where 14 displaced people live for 6 months. She provides construction jobs and basic resources to help them assist in rebuilding the city. The situation gradually goes violently awry and she is confronted with an array of abuses amidst a broken city.

Kamp Katrina is a verité documentary set in post-Katrina New Orleans. The film follows Ms. Pearl, a 56 year old Upper 9th Ward resident and Native American, over the course of 6 months. The story begins one month after Hurricane Katrina when Ms. Pearl rides her bicycle to a temporary community space in Washington Square Park. An organizer urges people to open their homes to individuals displaced by the hurricane. Ms. Pearl enthusiastically offers her backyard and 14 people immediately move into "Kamp Katrina," their self-made tent community.

Confronted with limited resources, no housing and no governmental support, Ms. Pearl and her husband attempt to create a community for the residents of Kamp Katrina while they work to rebuild homes and businesses destroyed by the storm. Kamp residents Kelley and Doug Baker become central characters as they face the difficulties of preparing for the birth of their third child. As personal problems are exacerbated by the absence of basic infrastructure, Ms. Pearl is forced to wear as many hats as she does costumes. She ends up playing the role of bouncer, psychologist, nurse, mother, domestic abuse counselor, housing advocate, and even tourist in her beloved city.

TRAILER

LINKS Kamp Katrina Myspace Low and Behold God Provides WWOZ Nola.com