Abundance Street, produced and directed by Julie Gustafson. One-hour documentary, with special features and web version, telling the stories of teenagers whose early lives are profoundly circumscribed by poor schools, joblessness and generational poverty. Weaving together autobiographical videos by Cassandra, Kimeca, and Delvin, as well as verite scenes shot by Gustafson, this film captures an extraordinary 15-year journey as the teen parents mature from youth to adulthood. Remarkably, the film includes a second generation: the children born during the making of the film, now 12 and 13, and facing many of the same issues as their parents before them. This new documentary aims to inspire audiences with the stories of teenagers whose youthful ‘choices’ follow them and whose adult lives reveal the extraordinarily high costs of growing up in poverty defined by class, race and lack of opportunity. The film has a clear social message: teenage pregnancy and parenting, especially in America’s urban African-American communities, are inextricably linked with generational poverty, crime, violence and the plight of young black men. The film will reveal the reality and outcomes of America’s apartheid-like system -- not just for those who live it, but also for the country -- and asks what can be done to fix it. 'Abundance Street' draws on and expands the wealth of material developed for the award-winning documentary 'Desire,' a five-year collaboration between Gustafson and the Teenage Girls Documentary Project.

Southeast Media Preservation Lab is a New Orleans-based video preservation center that provides analog-to-digital consulting and technical services to citizen-journalists, archives, libraries, museums, media centers, arts groups, and other non-profits in the southeast United States. Lab Director Blaine Dunlap began working with analog video technology in 1973 at Broadside TV in Johnson City, Tennessee. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983, and is an active member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.

Bayou Maharajah, directed by Lily Keber. A feature-length documentary on the life and music of New Orleans piano legend James Booker. Through interviews with friends and contemporaries, the film traces Booker’s life from child prodigy to his acclaimed work as session pianist, his solo career and infamous personal life to his early death and continuing legacy. Illustrated with archival concert footage, still photos and promotional material, the film paints a portrait of this overlooked genius. The soundtrack brings to life Booker’s distinct style and includes his early R&B hits, his genre-defying medleys, and the ‘spiders on the keys’ complexity of his music.

Art Index, directed by Joy Glidden. Art Index TV is a series of half-hour shows about Contemporary Art and the people who inform the business of this practice. The interview-style talk show has included a spattering of artists, but centers on arts administrators, critics, educators and philanthropists, with video art as the art experience. Guests have included: art critics Gregory Volk and Peter Frank; art dealers Rachel Vancellett formerly of Barbara Gladstone, Yvon Lambert, and Joe Amrhein of Peirogi Gallery Brooklyn; curators Lowery Stokes Sims of MAD, and Herb Tam of the Chinese Museum of Art; art educators Karen Atkinson of CAL Arts & founder of the on-line Professional Career Service GYST, and Sean Elwood of Creative Capital. Artists have included Tony Fitzpatrick, Mel Chin, and Dawn Dedeaux; and work has been featured from video artists Martha Rosler, Marina Zurkow, Roman Signer, and others. The questions are simple and broad, but not dumbed-down, allowing for a very entertaining, fast paced comprehensive half-hour show.

Streetcar to Kolkata, directed by Kavery Kaul. Documentary. A story of two religions, two cultures and two cities, which unfolds when writer Fatima Shaik journeys from New Orleans, the city of her birth, to learn about Shaik Mohamed Musa, the grandfather she never knew, in Calcutta or Kolkata, the Indian city of his birth. Currently in pre-production.

Land of Opportunity, directed by Luisa Dantas. Documentary. This multi-platform documentary captures the tumultous rebirth of New Orleans through the eyes of those on the frontlines of of the reconstruction effort. The film intertwines the dramatic stories of urban planners, artists, activists, residents and immigrant workers as they shape the fate of one of America's most beloved cities. The European version of the film was broadcast in France and Germany on the 5th Anniversary of Katrina in 2010.  The domestic/festival version of the film was completed in early 2011.

Walker Percy, A Documentary Film, directed by Winston Riley. Documentary. The film covers the life of the writer Walker Percy, who lived in New Orleans and Covington, and won the National Book Award in 1962 for his novel "The Moviegoer." Premiered Fall 2010.

Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together, digital preservation and restoration of Stevenson J. Palfi's 1982 documentary about New Orleans piano legends Henry "Professor Longhair" Byrd, Allen Toussaint, and Isidore "Tuts" Washington. Video preservationist is Blaine Dunlap. View the trailer on Vimeo here.

Bury The Hatchet, directed by Aaron C. Walker. Documentary. The film follows three Big Chiefs of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian tradition as they prepare their costumes for Mardi Gras day. Throughout, encountering unimaginable obstacles, they reveal the history of traditions stretching back hundreds of years, and show how those traditions help hold communities together today. Premiered Fall 2010.

The Music's Gonna Get You Through, directed by Gabrielle Mullem. Documentary. The film follows Henry Butler and six of his students at a week-long jazz music camp for visually impaired teenagers. Butler doesn't take 'no' for an answer, so the students learn to give it all. Sneak preview in March 2010 at Patois in New Orleans; broadcast premiere April 2010, WLAE-TV in New Orleans. Distribution to PBS stations across the country through American Public Television, Fall 2010.

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