Past Events
Event Date(s): March 17, 2008
The Open Society Institute and the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers presented a preview screening of the documentary Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans.
Filmmakers Lolis Eric Elie and Dawn Logsdon bring to life the rich history of black New Orleans through an in-depth look at one neighborhood, Faubourg Tremé. Told in the first person, the film uncovers important and largely unknown social, cultural, and political activities among free blacks in the early 1800s. Faubourg Tremé examines the spirit of the past through literary, musical, and architectural artifacts left behind, and the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the neighborhood's history and future.
Elie and Logsdon received an OSI Katrina Media Fellowship to support the film's production.
