Summary: Beginning next week, AuthorViews will start releasing "The Katrina Tapes" -- a series of interviews filmed at the New Orleans Bookfair in October, 2005. The Bookfair was the first major post-K cultural event in the city, coming just 2 weeks after the mandatory evacuation was lifted and residents were invited back home (or invited back homeless, as the case often was). This is a startling collection of first-hand impressions and we look forward to bringing them to you. We're starting with this very short video of St. Augustine Church -- the oldest African-American Catholic Church in America. In the aftermath of Katrina, the Archdiocese of New Orleans decided to close "Saint Aug" -- a decision that has met with an outpouring of local, national, and international support for this landmark church. This video marks another landmark: AuthorViews intern David Kaplan will be graduating from Tulane University next week. David was our first digital video intern. In the past few months he has sampled every aspect of filmmaking for the web. He did the camera work on this piece, along with much of the editing and titling. Our video of Saint Aug is really more of a snapshot than a story. Several of us here at the New Orleans office have been involved in the campaign to save Saint Aug. We are pleased to note that the Archdiocese has given Saint Aug a reprieve to increase membership and save the church. We'll keep you posted. You can also enjoy a radio documentary on Saint Augustine produced by AuthorViews' own George Ingmire at neworleansnarratives.com. Saint Augustine -- Welcome to AuthorViews!
