| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (66 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences |
| Summary |
"My Louisiana love follows a young Native American woman, Monique Verdin, as she returns to southeast Louisiana to reunite with her Houma Indian family. Soon, however, she recognizes that her people's traditional way of life, fishing, trapping, and hunting the fragile Mississippi Delta wetlands is threatened by an unceasing cycle of man-made environmental crises. As Louisiana is devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita and then the massive BP oil leak, Monique finds herself increasingly turning to environmental activism. She documents her family's struggle to stay close to the land despite the cycle of disasters and the rapidly disappearing coastline. Accompanying Monique, the film examines the complex and unequal relationship between the oil industry and the Delta's indigenous Native American community, revealing in the process how the political and economic policies dictated by the oil industry are wreaking havoc to the Delta environment and the survival of the local indigenous culture."--Publisher website |
| Credits |
Camera, Monique Michelle Verdin, Mark Krasnoff, Sharon Linezo Hong ; edited by Julie Mallozzi ; original music by Alex Weinstein |
| Notes |
Narration in English; some dialogue in French with English subtitles; closed captioned in English |
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Online resource; title from title frames (Alexander Street, viewed February 23, 2018) |
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Won 2012 ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival, Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award |
| Subject |
Verdin, Monique Michelle, 1980-
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Environmental degradation -- Louisiana
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Environmentalists.
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Houma Indians.
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Ecology.
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Environmental degradation.
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Environmentalists.
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Houma Indians.
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| SUBJECT |
Mississippi River Delta (La.) -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
Louisiana.
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Louisiana -- Mississippi River Delta.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographical films.
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Documentary films.
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Environmental films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Verdin, Monique Michelle, 1980- producer, screenwriter.
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Krasnoff, Mark, 1963-2006, producer.
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Hong, Sharon Linezo, director, producer, screenwriter.
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Mallozzi, Julie, producer, editor of moving image work.
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Berkeley Media, film distributor.
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Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc., production company.
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