I spent a year in tiny LaPlace, LA, shortly after Katrina struck. Laplace is located ten miles from New Orleans and was the first town that hurricane victims evacuated to.
The town was badly damaged by the hurricane, but even worse by the sudden influx of over 20,000 people. The school system was over run with 1500 new students in one week. The high school, East St. John, adopted 500 of them and became the center of the town's recovery with its football team providing the community something to rally around.
The team, comprised of kids from fifteen different high schools, was forced to put aside their former rivalries and band together as one. The result was a rocky, but beautiful story, the kind only a hurricane as devastating as Katrina could produce.
Watch the film and I promise that you will fall in love with these kids, especially Johnny and Stanley, two polar opposites in every way that somehow learn to co-exist for the good of the team and school.
And If you don't, I'll refund your money.
Sincerely,
Franklin Martin - Writer/Producer/Director of "Hurricane Season: Walking on Dead Fish
The town was badly damaged by the hurricane, but even worse by the sudden influx of over 20,000 people. The school system was over run with 1500 new students in one week. The high school, East St. John, adopted 500 of them and became the center of the town's recovery with its football team providing the community something to rally around.
The team, comprised of kids from fifteen different high schools, was forced to put aside their former rivalries and band together as one. The result was a rocky, but beautiful story, the kind only a hurricane as devastating as Katrina could produce.
Watch the film and I promise that you will fall in love with these kids, especially Johnny and Stanley, two polar opposites in every way that somehow learn to co-exist for the good of the team and school.
And If you don't, I'll refund your money.
Sincerely,
Franklin Martin - Writer/Producer/Director of "Hurricane Season: Walking on Dead Fish