We're so excited that Native American Public Telecommunications has just funded My Louisiana Love, a film by Sharon Linezo Hong that I am editing and co-producing. We're hoping this will mean a public television broadcast in 2012 or 2013.
My Louisiana Love traces a woman's quest to find a place in her Native American community as it reels from decades of environmental degradation. Monique Verdin returns to Southeast Louisiana to reunite with her Houma Indian family. But soon she sees that her people's traditional way of life - fishing, trapping, and hunting in these fragile wetlands - is threatened by a cycle of man-made environmental crises.
Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil leak are just the latest rounds in this century-old cycle that is forcing Monique's clan to adapt in new ways. Monique must overcome the loss of her house, her father, and her partner - and redefine the meaning of home.