Provocative Doc 'Getting Back To Abnormal' (Race & Politics In New Orleans) Heading To PBS' Pov 7/14
A SXSW 2013 selection, the multi-director feature documentary from Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, Peter Odabashian, Paul Stekler, titled Getting Back To Abnormal, will have its broadcast TV premiere on PBS' award-winning series Pov (Point of View), on Monday, July 14. The Itvs/Center for New American Media/Midnight Films project mixes fly-on-the-wall verité footage, with interviews, as it charts the next chapter of life in New Orleans. Here's a lengthy synopsis:Getting Back to Abnormal is entertaining as it is serious about race in New Orleans, focuses on the 2010 re-election campaign of Stacy Head. She sees herself as a...
- 5/22/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
More SXSW 2013 black cinema highlights, after the festival revealed its lineup this afternoon. A multi-director feature documentary from Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, Peter Odabashian, Paul Stekler, titled Getting Back To Abnormal. Here's its synopsis: New Orleans' long history of political dysfunction and complicated racial dynamics gets a new lease on life when Stacy Head, a polarizing white woman, wins a seat on the city council after Katrina. Four years later, she needs to get black votes to be re-elected. But will her record of blunt racial talk doom her chances? Getting Back To Abnormal follows the unlikely odd couple of Head and her irrepressible black...
- 1/31/2013
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
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