June Cross and Bob Steele obviously black. They lived in the black side of town. It was a subtext. I didn’t consider this a film about race.
thing or another – the violence – but nobody is looking at what is happening to this region as they go through the rebuilding process, and I am interested in following that.
Student: Where does your obligation to the story end? Obviously the documentary is finished, but do you still feel that you have an obligation to Mr. Gettridge and the story?
Steele: What is the one story that you really want to do a documentary on? Cross: There is no one story. It is more like what is the one story this year, so right now I am on Pakistan.
Cross: I don’t feel like I have an obligation to Mr. Gettridge. I feel like I have an obligation to keep following the story in New Orleans.
Steele: What is the sixty-second story on Pakistan, so that everyone here can watch out for it?
Steele: Why so? Cross: Because everybody sort of goes back on the anniversary but no one is looking long-term. We talk about this process of ethics, but there is also the process of rebuilding. People have fastened onto one
Cross: I don’t know – a country being torn apart by its own DNA. It is a story about intolerance and hate and terrorism and what that says about the fracturing of a society.
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