It’s been about 10 years since Hurricane Katrina truly devastated New Orleans, when the levees failed and flooded the city in one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
The city and its residents have rebuilt the city since then and it’s all been captured on film in a new six-part docuseries.
New Orleans, Here & Now unites six filmmakers who are connected to the city, as they highlight the stories from survivors living in a post-Katrina New Orleans. The survivors include a brass band, an oyster farmer, high school seniors [who were 8 years old when Katrina hit], and N.O. natives Tiffany Junot, a World Boxing Council world champion.
New Orleans, Here & Now is being produced and distributed by Time Inc. in partnership with Rampante, Killer Films (Still Alice, Boys Don’t Cry), and Field Office Films, a New Orleans-based company created by the producers of Beasts of the Southern Wild.
The series can be seen in full here. You can watch its trailer above and one of the six episodes, Two Cities — which focuses on what it means to be part of the displaced New Orleans population in Houston — in the player below.
