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Edward Buckles, Jr. is a director whose films are a marriage of thorough storytelling, fine art aesthetics, and guerilla-style documentation.
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Edward Buckles, Jr. is a son of New Orleans. His non-linear...
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- Soledad O’Brien: What Was The Story That You Wanted to Tell?
- What Is It Like to Lose Your Future When You’Re 12 Years old?
- What Do You Want People Who Watch This Film to Walk Away with?
Buckles: I got this idea when I was 20 and studying documentary at Dillard [University]. I’m watching all of these films, and I’m really being inspired. And then I’m like, What’s a documentary that I would tell about my life? And nothing came to me for a very long time. One day my cousin Tina called me. And she was just crying, because she was stil...
What does it mean to lose your identity when identity is connected to everything that has been washed away? In New Orleans we find out who we are through our neighborhoods. We find out who we are through our history, and all of that was washed away. When I became a high school teacher, it was the most interesting thing because every high schooler i...
Hurricane Katrina was in 2005, and it still echoes. I believe that if we get resources and tools, we can be a great city. I just wanted to shine light on us and start healing. Correction, Aug. 22 The original version of this story misstated Edward Buckles’ age when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. He was 12, not 13.
- Soledad O'brien
Edward Buckles, Jr. is a son of New Orleans. His non-linear path to filmmaking has birthed a brand of visual storytelling - an aesthetically beautiful marriage between fine art and guerilla-style documentation. Buckles’ work calls his audience towards remembrance and to see the beauty in imperfections.
23K Followers, 5,076 Following, 177 Posts - buck (@E.buckles) on Instagram: "either making films or food. @KatrinaBabiesMovie on @HBO/ @StreamOnMax now! pro co: @houseoftheyoung rep: @greenpointpictures".
- New Orleans, 70118, Louisiana
Aug 24, 2022 · The director Edward Buckles Jr. makes a telling point of these tensions in his first film, the revealing documentary “Katrina Babies,” which features Black people who were children —— some...
Aug 25, 2022 · Edward Buckles, Jr. was just 13 when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and changed his home forever. His new documentary is his attempt to unpack the trauma of that childhood experience.
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Aug 23, 2022 · In his feature-length doc, Edward Buckles Jr. collects the stories of the youngest people affected by the catastrophic New Orleans storm. By Lovia Gyarkye. August 23, 2022 9:16am. HBO. When the...
