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Upstairs Inferno (2015)
Tragedy on an epic scale
This catastrophe is fully documented through vintage footage and contemporary interviews with survivors and loved ones of the deceased. The director has constructed a moving memorial to those who perished in this deadliest of all New Orleans fires. The film is tragedy on an epic scale: first because of the innocent productive lives extinguished with no warning and secondly because of the apathy shown by many of the community's religious and political leaders toward gay people at the time. (There are also two comprehensive books on the disaster which memorialize the lives of the victims, explain the social and political mindset of New Orleans at the time, and theorize the cause of the fire.) Mr. Camina is to be congratulated for this wonderful documentary.