BEEN IN THE STORM TOO LONG

On July 21^st at 8pm on WPBT2, TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS: NEW ORLEANS: BEEN IN THE STORM TOO LONG  teams up with Academy Award?-winning director Jonathan Demme to revisit New Orleans on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Interviews will include New Orleans natives such as world-renowned jazz artists Branford & Ellis Marsalis and actors John Goodman & Wendell Pierce from HBO's new hit drama series, Treme.

 

The REPORTS will offer a uniquely personal look at that city's defiant and determined citizens as they rebuild their lives and their neighborhoods. Smiley will present a portrait of a city and its resilient residents still recovering from the aftermath of the storm and the political neglect that followed ? still refusing to lose hope as they reinvent the city they love.