Wade in the Water Children (2007)

Through a passionate mixture of private videos uncensored interviews and schoolday adventures the children of New Orleans notoriously violent Central City neighborhood have created a riveting portrait of childhood at the heart of an ongoing American crisis No one set out to make a film six months after Katrina filmmakers Elizabeth Wood and Gabriel Nussbaum moved to New Orleans with a free art program devised to help students creatively express their thoughts in response to the chaos of the storm Their documentaryfilmmaking class at Singleton Charter School at the local YMCA invited students to take video cameras home and tell their stories on their own terms The results quickly transcended the classroom