Trailer: A Bridge Life: Finding Our Way Home from Katrina

The main focus of the documentary is Dan Sheffer, a loan officer, husband and father of two from Plantation, Florida. He watched on television, like all of us, the trials and tribulations of the Katrina evacuees those first few days and wrestled with what to do, or what he could do. Inspired by a Good Samaritan, who aided hurricane victims in his own state, Dan's goal became clear; find evacuees willing to leave the hard cement of the Astrodome and escort them to relative safety and the chance of a new life in Florida; in essence to provide those willing with a bridge life. He then solicited pledges from friends and colleagues to help cover the cost of flying 10 evacuees from the Houston Astrodome, which he would recruit himself, back to Florida. Putting his life on hold, Dan's act of Good Samaritanship turned out to be a much tougher road than either he or anyone else imagined. Finding evacuees prepared to trust him enough to leave for an unknown future in another state would prove near impossible. But after several days, and with the help of other volunteers, Dan had finally enlisted seven evacuees ready to believe.

Dan's story is but one of many heartening and heart wrenching tales to come out of Katrina and subsequent disasters the world over. What follows, is the tale of a group of strangers, bound by a common goal, faced with many human obstacles that would eventually drive them apart and back together again. While the story ends tragically for one evacuee, what rises above are inspiring portraits of kindness in the face of great adversity.

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Film & Animation

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• history
• filmmaking

[SuperSkyster]

After going thru Katrina, and Rita, Umberto, Gustav and Ike, I definitely had feelings watching this, and you might say "Why should I watch it? What makes it so special?" Trust me, at the end something happens that will shock you, and it's real. Such a sick sad world. Our method for dealing with these natural occurrences is completely wrong, and causes more problems than it solves, and more deaths than it prevents.