And I quickly came to the decision I would like to - if given the chance, I would like to document that. And every day I wondered when is the federal government going to show up.Īnd very early on, I recognized I was watching a historic moment in American history. And so I was just holed up in my hotel room switching back and forth between the BBC and CNN. And at the time I was not in the United States of America, I was in Venice, Italy for the Venice Film Festival. SPIKE LEE (Producer, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts): I was touched. But we started our conversation by talking about how Katrina affected him. GORDON: Lee says the documentary is ultimately a plea to renew the City of New Orleans. I hope they can sleep at night knowing that they're the ones who's responsible. Whoever's responsible, I hope that they can sleep at night. It costs the people their homes and their lives. Not just New Orleans and the 9th Ward, but the whole frickin' southeast Louisiana. Unidentified Woman #2: And it costs the people. I don't know how to make you understand the despair. I have a law degree, a MBA, and I had nothing. He's got a Masters from UCLA, undergrad from Berkeley. Somebody needs to go to jail because those levees were never really maintained the way they should've been, and now it's too late. Unidentified Man: You know, somebody needs to go to jail. (Soundbite of film, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts) The film produced by Spike Lee is entitled When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. On Monday, HBO debuts a two-part documentary that chronicles the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans one year later.
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