- 2022
- HBO Max
- 1 h 19 m
SummarySixteen years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, an entire generation still grapples with the lifelong impact of having their childhood redefined by tragedy. New Orleans filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr., who was 13 years old during Katrina and its initial aftermath, spent seven years documenting the stories of his peers who survived the ...
Directed By:Edward Buckles Jr.
Written By:Edward Buckles Jr., Luther Clement Lam, Audrey Rosenberg
Katrina Babies
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Aug 24, 2022
100
It’s Buckles’ first film, and it’s an exceptional debut. Blending archival footage, singular animation and a wealth of interviews, he delivers a vital document that is at once intimate, honest, engaging and indelible.
Aug 24, 2022
90
Katrina Babies is an assertion of presence, a proclamation that the devastating hurricane is not simply a past story, but a present one too.
Aug 26, 2022
80
Buckles’ greatest asset is his subjects, many of whom have never spoken before about the trauma that the adults and authority figures in their lives have expected them to endure, bravely and stoically.
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Sep 7, 2022
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Young filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr. goes through a cathartic experience by asking the black people who suffered the Katrina disaster as children one simple question: "are you ok?" 'Katrina Babies' frames the struggle of the black community during the aftermath of the hurricane. The interviews are as sad as impactful, but Buckles Jr. isn't interested in melodrama; these conversations try to bring awareness to the importance of providing aid — physical and mental — to everyone, not just to white people. This documentary must perdure as a fair claim of the injustice in the United States. Everyone deserves salvation after catastrophes like this one, but 'Katrina Babies" sadly reminds us that only white lives matter.
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Production Company:
- Creative Control
- HBO Documentary Films
- House of the Young Entertainment
- Invisible Pictures
- Time Studios
Release Date:Aug 24, 2022
Duration:1 h 19 m
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Awards
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Zurich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
International Documentary Association
• 1 Nomination
