HBO has signed Spike Lee and his production company to do a follow-up documentary to his series When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts about the whole Hurricane Katrina debacle. Shooting begins tomorrow apparently, and the project will revisit some of the subjects of the previous documentary series while also expanding the scope to areas beyond New Orleans that were affected by the hurricane.
I regretfully haven’t yet watched When the Levees Broke, but I’ve explored the devastated neighborhoods of New Orleans by foot and helicopter, so that’s gotta count for something right? I’ll get to it eventually, and since it was so acclaimed I’m pleased to see more documentary work being done on the situation. Hopefully there’s more of a consensus by future generations on how much the federal government fucked up than there is now. (Yes, there’s lots of blame to go around, but if you don’t think the feds had a ton of responsibility, then you don’t understand the purpose of our federal government, simple as that.)
