upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Storyville: Can't Stop the Water, a documentary about the community living on the flood-endangered Isle de Jean Charles, will be screening at Scribe Video Center (4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor) on Friday, June 20 at 7:00pm. Tickets for the screening are $5, free for Scribe members. Directors Rebecca Marshall Ferris and Jason Ferris will be attending in person.
For 170 years, a Native American Cajun community has occupied Isle de Jean Charles, tiny island deep in the bayous of south Louisiana. They have fished, hunted, and lived off the land. Now the land that has sustained them for generations is vanishing before their eyes. Years of gas and oil exploration have ravaged the surrounding marsh, leaving the island defenseless against the ocean tides that will eventually destroy it. As Chief Albert Naquin desperately looks for a way to bring his tribe together on higher ground, those that remain on the island cling to the hope that they can stay.
