(Filmmaker in person)

How can the devastation of Hurricane Katrina have done any possible good for anything or anyone in New Orleans? Reborn is a surprising proof that, for at least one anything and a whole lot of anyones, it did. After the hurricane, a school system which by all accounts was an irremediable failure became a tabula rasa. To say that this beautifully photographed documentary is inspiring doesn’t do it justice. Reborn is a transcendent film, as we witness what inspired administrators, teachers and parents are doing to provide a clean slate for a fortunate number of students, inspiring them to write their successful futures upon it.

(2007, 85 min.) – G.R.