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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 | 3:07pm
Spike Lee wins Polk for “Levees” Documentary
Tuesday, Spike Lee was named winner of the annual George Polk Award for his documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” along with his long time friend and producer, Sam Pollard. They won the award for documentary television for illustrating evidence of the government’s poor performance in the aftermath of the August [...]
Tuesday, Spike Lee was named winner of the annual George Polk Award for his documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” along with his long time friend and producer, Sam Pollard. They won the award for documentary television for illustrating evidence of the government’s poor performance in the aftermath of the August 2005 Hurricane Katrina.
Lee made eight trips to New Orleans and interviewed about 100 people while filming the documentary, which aired on HBO. Pollard and Lee worked together previously on “Mo’ Better Blues,” “Jungle Fever,” “Girl 6,” “Clockers” and “Bamboozled.”
The Polk Award (a series of 12 honors), is considered among the top prizes in U.S. journalism. Created in 1949 in honor of CBS reporter George W. Polk, who was killed while covering the Greek civil war, The Polk awards will be presented April 12 in New York.
SHOUT OUT TO FORT GREENE, DA STUY, DA HEIGHTS, DA BUSH AND ALL OF BK FOR THAT MATTER
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