“A MUST-SEE FILM”
– THE BOSTON GLOBE
“ A DEVASTATING, first-hand account of life
in post-Katrina New Orleans, told from the mouths of babes who are surviving it under OUTRAGEOUS living conditions. SCALDING STUFF. ”
– NEW YORK NEWSDAY
“The images and observations are RAW and often PROFOUND, and the resilience of the youngster to push ahead while living in conditions of extraordinary squalor and decay
is DIFFICULT TO FORGET.”
– FilmThreat.com
“ This film is especially IMPORTANT and POWERFUL in how it intimately reveals the desperate situation before the storm,
as well as afterward. ”
– PAUL GOLDBERGER
Essayist, The New Yorker & N Y Times
“ Wade in the Water, Children is one of the TREASURES salvaged from the levee failures ”
– THE NEW ORLEANS GAMBIT WEEKLY
“ Without pretense, rhetoric, or analysis, their uncensored vision of life in Post-Katrina New Orleans is HEART-RENDING ”
– THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, NEW YORK
“a GREAT film”
– AL GORE
“A story that is funny, bitter, profane
and extraordinarily perceptive...
the film is a searing and heartbreaking portrait of the failures of New Orleans to help its most disadvantaged citizens both pre and post Katrina.”
– Educational Media Reviews Online
“ It is important that more people get to see this film. We never listen to children. Very COURAGEOUS work. ”
– LANI GUINIER
Civil Rights Scholar, Harvard
“ This is why I started a film festival.
I am so proud to have this film shown here. ”
– TONI ROSS
Founder, The Hamptons Int’l Film Festival
“ A moving film. Important, insightful, and rather HEARTBREAKING in how little has changed.”
– KATHLEEN TURNER
“ it’s INCREDIBLE... I want to hand a copy to EVERYONE I know. ”
– MAX SCHORR
Publisher, GOOD Magazine
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
THE HAMPTONS INT’L FILM FESTIVAL
THE NEWPORT INT’L FILM FESTIVAL
THE TEXAS BLACK FILM FESTIVAL
Opening Night Film
THE NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL
HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
Audience Award Winner
THE RADAR/HAMBURG FILM FESTIVAL
THE BUSHWICK FILM FESTIVAL
GOOD MAGAZINE’S Good December NYC
TELEVISION COVERAGE:
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The Students and Directors on CBS New Orleans
The FIlmmakers on DOCStock on PlumTV
Al Gore’s CURRENT TV - Special Short Version
Wade in the Water, Children
New Orleans Documentary 2009
Elizabeth Wood and Gabriel Nussbam
Bank Street Films
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NEW REVIEW Highly Recommended by Educational Media Reviews