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Spike Lee says New Orleans future uncertain
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 17 - 08 - 2006


The future of New Orleans
and its ability to recover from Hurricane Katrina is uncertain,
film director Spike Lee said on Wednesday ahead of the premiere
of a four-hour documentary on the storm, Reuters reported.
"It could go either way, in my opinion, down here," he
said, reflecting on the fact that many parts of the city are
far from cleaned up or rebuilt.
Lee, one of the film industry's most prominent
African-American directors, took nearly a year to make the film
about Katrina, and he argued on Wednesday that the government
response was so inadequate as to be a crime.
"What happened here was a criminal act. The devastation was
not brought upon solely by Mother Nature," he told a news
conference. "I would like to see somebody go to jail," he
added, declining to name individuals.
Katrina, at one point a Category 5 hurricane, hit New
Orleans nearly a year ago on Aug. 29, as a Category 3
hurricane, flooding 80 percent of the city and killing 1,339 in
the region, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The speed of government response aiding and providing for
the newly homeless was sharply criticized as nearly every New
Orleans resident was forced to evacuate.
The city still has neighborhoods in shambles, and Lee said
many of the people he met while filming wanted leadership.
"That's what everybody keeps telling me -- we are waiting
for the plan, we are waiting for the plan, we are waiting for
the plan. And so they wait," he said.
The city is producing a recovery plan with input from all
New Orleans neighborhoods, but in the mean time residents
largely are left to their own to decide how and whether to
rebuild. Many have said the process is slow and want more help
from the government, as well as a grand vision for how to
rebuild the city.
"When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" was made
for cable channel HBO, a unit of Time Warner Inc. The
documentary will be shown to a live New Orleans audience on
Wednesday evening and make its television debut in two two-hour
parts on Aug. 21 and 22.


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