I am Carolyn Parker

A Clinica Estetico, Jacob Burns Film Center POV/American Documentary presentation of the Look and remain production. Created by Jonathan Demme, Lindsay Jaeger, Daniel Wolff, Steve Apkon. Executive producers, Glenn Allen, Rocco Caruso, Abdul Franklin, Simon Kilmurry. Directed by Jonathan Demme.With: Carolyn Parker, Kyrah Julian, Ray Nagin.Jonathan Demme's "I am Carolyn Parker" provides a slender but engaging human-interest position around the slow-moving recovery effort following Hurricane Katrina. Noted for her work with respect to New Orleans' heavily influenced Lower Ninth Ward and her fellow residents' "to return," Parker constitutes a memorable camera subject perfectly suitable for Demme's scruffy, affectionate documaking. Shot within the 5 years it required to rebuild her house, this smallscreen-bound item reps a worthy addition towards the growing body of labor on Katrina and it is still-ongoing aftermath. Parker first came head lines in a The month of january 2006 city council meeting where, following the proposal of the temporary halt to repairing efforts in New Orleans' worst-flooded areas, she openly retorted, "Over my dead body." That clip supplies a feisty, inspiring counterpoint towards the warm, irrepressibly good-humored lady taken within a number of well-observed human gestures, whether she's baking chicken within the FEMA trailer she explains to her daughter or worshipping at among numerous local places of worship threatened with closure. Resourcefully made docu ties Parker's advocacy towards the civil-privileges struggle she strongly recalls coping with, which without doubt accounts a minimum of partially on her remarkable resilience.Camera (color/B&W, HD), Demme editor, Ido Haar music, Zafer Tawil music supervisor, Susan Jacobs. Examined at Venice Film Festival (Horizons), Sept. 5, 2011. (Also in Toronto Film Festival -- Real to Reel.) Running time: 91 MIN. Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com