Desire

USA, 84 minutes
Director: Julie Gustafson with the Teenage Girls’ Documentary Project of New Orleans
Screenwriter: Julie Gustafson
Cast: Cassandra Swaing, Tiffanie Johnson, Tracy Morton, Kimeca Rodgers, Paggy Wang
Documentary

Synopsis: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Desire offers a poignant perspective on the complicated dynamics of race and class in New Orleans. Over the course of five years, five diverse young women – two from the Ninth Ward’s Desire Housing Project, a young single mother, and two girls’ from one of New Orleans’ most prestigious private schools – to capture the intimate dramas that surrounded their lives. Weaving them together into a larger narrative, Gustafson creates a portrait of young women who survive a variety of personal circumstances and family battles, all before they had to survive the worst storm in American history. A record of life in New Orleans before the tragedy, Desire puts human faces on the issues the city faced and faces as it attempts to rebuild itself.

Website: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c676.shtml

Showtimes: Thursday, April 27, 8:30 PM - Friday, April 28, 4:30 PM