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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.
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[…] Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke documentary about the devastation and political fallout following Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath was received with critical acclaim and was honored with the Polk Award for the most outstanding documentary film. . However if there was one complaint it was that Spike Lee’s film focused solely on the situation in New Orleans and much like the press coverage neglected the devastated citizens of Mississippi.  Lee hopes to rectify this with a second HBO ‘Levee’ type documentary. […]
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