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Faubourg Tremé : the untold story of Black New Orleans / a co-production of Serendipity Films LLC, WYES-TV/New Orleans & Louisiana Public Broadcasting ; in association with Independent Television Service (ITVS) & National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) ; a documentary by Lolis Eric Elie and Dawn Logsdon ; directed by Dawn Logsdon ; written & co-directed by Lolis Eric Elie ; produced by Lucie Faulknor, Lolis Eric Elie, Dawn Logsdon.

Format Video (DVD)
Publication Info[San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, [2008]
Description1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Supplemental Content Related materials
Subject(s)
African Americans--Louisiana --New Orleans --Social conditions.
African Americans--Civil rights --Louisiana --New Orleans --History.
Tremé (New Orleans, La.)--History.
New Orleans (La.)--History.
Other author/creatorElie, Lolis Eric director, screenwriter, producer.
Other author/creatorLogsdon, Dawn, director, producer, editor.
Other author/creatorFaulknor, Lucie, producer.
Other author/creatorAndrews, Glen David interviewee.
Other author/creatorFranklin, John Hope, 1915-2009 interviewee.
Other author/creatorLedoux, Jérôme, interviewee.
Other author/creatorMedley, Keith Weldon, interviewee.
Other author/creatorRouzan, Laura, interviewee.
Other author/creatorSloan, Lenwood O. interviewee.
Other author/creatorFoner, Eric, 1943- interviewee.
Other author/creatorFrench, Bob, 1937-2012 interviewee.
Other author/creatorMarsalis, Wynton, 1961- interviewee, producer.
Other author/creatorOsbey, Brenda Marie interviewee.
Other author/creatorSalaam, Kalamu ya, 1947- interviewee.
Other author/creatorTrevigne, Irving, interviewee.
Other author/creatorVelasco, Diego, cinematographer.
Other author/creatorSmith, Keith cinematographer.
Other author/creatorShepard, Bobby cinematographer.
Other author/creatorGreen, Sam, 1966- editor.
Other author/creatorTunsil, Aljernon, editor.
Other author/creatorHodge, Derrick composer.
Other author/creatorNelson, Stanley, 1951- producer.
Other author/creatorKennedy, JoNell, narrator.
Other author/creatorSerendipity Films.
Other author/creatorLouisiana Public Broadcasting.
Other author/creatorWYES-TV (Television station : New Orleans, La.)
Other author/creatorIndependent Television Service.
Other author/creatorNational Black Programming Consortium.
Other author/creatorCalifornia Newsreel (Firm)
Abstract Long ago during slavery, Faubourg Tremé was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South and a hotbed of political ferment. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor co-habitated, collaborated, and clashed to create much of what defines New Orleans culture up to the present day. Founded as a suburb (or faubourg in French) of the original colonial city, the neighborhood developed during French rule and many families like the Trevignes kept speaking French as their first language until the late 1960s. Tremé was the home of the Tribune, the first black daily newspaper in the US. During Reconstruction, activists from Tremé pushed for equal treatment under the law and for integration. And after Reconstruction's defeat, a "Citizens Committee" legally challenged the resegregation of public transportation resulting in the infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case. New Orleans Times Picayune columnist Lolis Eric Elie bought a historic house in Tremé in the 1990s when the area was struggling to recover from the crack epidemic. Rather than flee the blighted inner city, Elie begins renovating his dilapidated home and in the process becomes obsessed with the area's mysterious and neglected past. Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone.
General noteOriginally produced as a television program in 2007.
CreditsCinematography, Diego Velasco, Keith Smith, Bobby Shepard ; editors, Dawn Logsdon, Sam Green, Aljernon Tunsil ; music, Derrick Hodge ; executive producers, Stanley Nelson, Wynton Marsalis ; narrator, JoNell Kennedy.
Performer Interviewees: Glen David Andrews, John Hope Franklin, Jerome LeDoux, Keith Weldon Medley, Laura Rouzan, Lenwood Sloan, Eric Foner, Bob French, Wynton Marsalis, Brenda Marie Osbey, Kalamu ya Salaam, Irving Trevigne.
Technical detailsDVD, NTSC; stereo.
Terms of useIncludes public performance rights.
LanguageClosed-captioned in English.
Genre/formDocumentary television programs.
Genre/formVideo recordings for the hearing impaired.

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