After winning a regional Emmy, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities 2010 Documentary of the Film Award and being named to my year-end list of the best documentaries of 2009, "All Over But to Cry" -- about 1957's Hurricane Audrey -- has been picked up for broadcast by the Documentary Channel.
Directed by Jennifer John Block and built around incredibly personal -- and incredibly moving -- eyewitness accounts, the 49-minute film will air June 27 at 7 and 11 p.m., with rebroadcasts set for July 11 at 7 p.m. and July 27 at 5:30 p.m.
That initial air-date -- June 27 -- also happens to mark the 54th anniversary of the day the Category 4 storm slammed into the Cajun communities of southwest Louisiana, killing more than 500 people and leaving a swath of utter devastation in its wake.
"In the hands of Block and director of photography Jake Springfield," I wrote in my 2009 review of the film, "this is powerful, gripping stuff, a story worthy of Hollywood -- and can't-miss cinema for local residents."
Continue reading at NOLA.com
Directed by Jennifer John Block and built around incredibly personal -- and incredibly moving -- eyewitness accounts, the 49-minute film will air June 27 at 7 and 11 p.m., with rebroadcasts set for July 11 at 7 p.m. and July 27 at 5:30 p.m.
That initial air-date -- June 27 -- also happens to mark the 54th anniversary of the day the Category 4 storm slammed into the Cajun communities of southwest Louisiana, killing more than 500 people and leaving a swath of utter devastation in its wake.
"In the hands of Block and director of photography Jake Springfield," I wrote in my 2009 review of the film, "this is powerful, gripping stuff, a story worthy of Hollywood -- and can't-miss cinema for local residents."
Continue reading at NOLA.com
