True Family // New Orleans Film Society

True Family

DENMARK 53 min.

Director, Cinematographer: Tao Norager
Editor: Wiebe Van der Vliet
Director Bio: Tao Nørager (1974) Copenhagen based Danish filmmaker. Graduate from The Danish Advertising school and The Short and Documentary Film School. In 2008 Tao started the creative collaborative Roaddox with editor/producer Wiebe Van der Vliet. Roaddox primarily produces films about creative people or processes, and uses the new media as it's platform. Together they have made the Fashion documentary “Bible Black – Five days with Andrew Mackenzie” Amongst other projects Nørager has directed several shows for fashion designer Andrew Mackenzie in Milan and taught film and photography students in the subjects concerning concept development and creative idea devolopment.
Producer: Wiebe Van der Vliet

Synopsis

From the ravages of a devastated post-Katrina New Orleans, a new found hope emerges in the form of a free-spirited singer, MESCHIYA LAKE.
Seeking refuge from a drug addiction, Lake finds herself in a New Orleans much changed from the one she had fallen in love with years earlier. Along with Meschiya, we meet her new found “family” of jazz loving, swing dancing young musicians who refuse to give up on the city so many others have abandoned.

True Family shows us New Orleans and Meschiya healing and rebuilding in parallel, rising gracefully from the ashes of tragedy.