New Trailer for IKE: A DOCUMENTARY (The Story of a Torn City Rebuilt by Everyday Heroes)

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.

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