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Kamp Katrina (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 10

Fresh: 8

Rotten:2

Average Rating: 6.8/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Aug 23, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana, follows Ms. Pearl, a 56 year old Upper 9th Ward resident and Native American, over the course of six months. Ms. Pearl enthusiastically offers her... Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana, follows Ms. Pearl, a 56 year old Upper 9th Ward resident and Native American, over the course of six months. Ms. Pearl enthusiastically offers her backyard and ten people immediately move into "Kamp Katrina," their self-made tent community. She ends up playing the role of bouncer, psychologist, nurse, mother, domestic abuse counselor, housing advocate and even tourist in her beloved city. -- © Carnivalesque Films [More]

Director: Ashley Sabin, David Redmon

Director: Ashley Sabin, David Redmon
Producer: Deborah Smith, Dale Smith, Ashley Sabin
Composer: Eric Taxier
Studio: Carnivalesque Films

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  • Kamp Katrina, an award winning, theatrically released documentary, follows a small group of people who lived 6 months in a backyard transformed into a tent city. Kamp Katrina is not a Hurricane Katrina documentary, yet it's setting looks like a combat zone and its characters, who are numerous at first and varied, get picked off by ones and twos until only a couple are left. You settle in with the residents and become immersed in the chaos, brutality, and surreal humor of their situation. The filmmakers lived full-time in the tent city and their urban platoon movie provides excellent views of the last of its platoon going to its special hell. You're left with the question that hangs over all platoon movies: Was the battle worth the pain?
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    The film ultimately is too tedious and meandering to have the desired impact, with its subject matter more appropriate for a short newsmagazine segment than a feature length documentary.

    Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
    09/10/07
    Frank Scheck
    Hollywood Reporter
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    This verite digital video about coping with natural disaster contains exotic characters, tragic hardships, bureaucratic indifference, inner demons and the birth of a crack baby.

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    08/31/07
    Bill Stamets
    Chicago Sun-Times
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    Ashley Sabin and David Redmon's gently observational videography and editing let the story emerge without any controlling structure or narration...

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    08/31/07
    Fred Camper
    Chicago Reader
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    For a much more micro look at the storm's impact upon a small band of New Orleans eccentrics, there's David Redmon and Ashley Sabin's Kamp Katrina.

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    08/30/07
    Maureen M. Hart
    Chicago Tribune
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    An eye-opening expose' welcoming white Americans to the Third World.

    Full Review Source: New Orleans Black | comment Comment
    08/25/07
    Kam Williams
    New Orleans Black

    A touching documentary by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon, introduces us to [residents] of the makeshift Kamp Katrina.

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    08/24/07
    V.A. Musetto
    New York Post
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    Ashley Sabin and David Redmon's bittersweet film documents the efforts of two New Orleans natives to help their beloved city heal from Hurricane Katrina's devastation.

    Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
    08/22/07
    Maitland McDonagh
    TV Guide's Movie Guide

    Stirring and lurid in equal measure, the film is compelling in its details but queasily detached: verité verging on exploitation.

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    08/21/07
    Nathan Lee
    Village Voice
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    The film is ungainly and lacks for focus, not unlike its subjects, but it has a heart as big as the Mississippi and believes in the future of New Orleans and its people.

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    08/20/07
    Ed Gonzalez
    Slant Magazine

    A worthy addition to the steadily increasing array of docs about life and strife in post-Katrina New Orleans.

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    08/20/07
    Joe Leydon
    Variety
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