Land of Opportunity

Through the eyes of urban planners, community organizers, displaced youth, immigrant workers, and public housing residents, this verité-style documentary reveals how the story of New Orleans is the story of urban America: how democratic processes can fail us, how economic crisis can pull the rug out from under us, and how (im)migration can prove to be a complicated bargain. As cities all over the world struggle to recover from disaster, whether economic, natural, or man-made, the lessons of post-Katrina New Orleans have only become more urgent.

Barack Obama

Self

• Luisa DantasDirector

Land of Opportunity - New Day Films - Urban Studies - Sociology

Release date

March 10, 2010

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Documentary

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