IKE: A DOCUMENTARY (trailer)

A trailer for the upcoming film "IKE: A Documentary."

The story behind the story:

Late in the night of September 12, 2008, Hurricane Ike ripped through our island city of Galveston, TX. After a month, people had returned to the city, and the Media Technology Class of Ball High began their project: a documentary, telling the 'tale of our people's land'.

'Hurricane Ike: A Documentary- The Story of a Torn City Rebuilt by Everyday Heroes', is a student-made film chronicling their community's struggle and achievement to stand back on their feet, holding strong against Hurricane Ike's wake. For over seven months, the Hurricane Story Tellers (HSTs) have interviewed citizens who fought for their life during the hurricane, and Houston and Galveston officials (including Galveston mayor Lyda Ann Thomas), who organized the evacuation, recovery, and aftermath.

Thousands are misplaced from their homes, and several schools have been closed, forcing children, who have lived in Galveston their entire lives, to start over in a new, unfamiliar place, without their belongings that rooted them in their every day life. The University of the Medical Branch of Texas, a hospital that cancer and burn victims travel to from all over the country for treatment, was also so severely damaged that its financial foundation was crippled.

The film is a non-profit project; All donations and proceeds from all of our sold DVDs go straight back to Galveston Independent School District's Educational Foundation.

Please visit GISD's (Galveston Independent School District) web-site at
http://www.gisd.org/gisd/site/default.asp

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Hurricane
• Ike
• Documentary
• Ball
• High
• School
• Galveston
• Texas
• September
• 2008

[toadlytadpole]

Bravo

What a video!

[IKEdocumentary]

thanku e

[sweetsmile493]

@bdassvids you were oblivious to the devastating impact it had on Galveston, Bolivar, and the other coastal areas!

[sweetsmile493]

A beautiful documentary... Proud to be a B.O.I, a Galvestonian at heart. Galvestonians are very strong, and have a lot of faith. I miss the wonderful people and the close knit community in the island. My heart will always be in Galveston.

[Islandgirly92]

i agree mei. :( btw this is lauren.

[Etherwar]

Hey HST... looks like you have a pretty solid product coming out here.

I assume you guys are working with a severely restricted budget, and I know you don't have all the time in the world to just work on this project, but I hope you give at least some recognition to the many other communities that were destroyed by Ike's storm surge (Seabrook, Bolivar, Shoreacres, etc.).

Your teacher has done something you will all appreciate and remember forever... good luck at the premiere tonight.

[dallascowboyfan101]

PUT ME IN THE CREDITS MR.WIESS!!!!! YOU KNOW WHO THIS!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH..­....ha

[bigdsears]

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember

We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

[toadlytadpole]

Again, this video is well done and has such an important message to all. I have shared this with my friends.

[LoLFunnyVid]

yea well i live in htown too and it was like 2 weeks w/o electricity here

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