Local Color - On Location & Hurricane Katrina

From director/writer George Gallo:
"I was shocked that Louisiana could double for upstate New York and Pennsylvania. It is an absolutely gorgeous state, with some of the most breathtaking skies I have ever seen. Some scenes in the movie are so beautiful, they look like paintings. People who have seen the movie have thought we achieved the effects with CGI. The truth is, it's just the natural beauty of the state with wonderful locations and Michael Negrin, our cinematographer, made each image look like an Andrew Wyeth painting.

While we were shooting, we noticed Katrina forming on the news. Since we were not insured, we became increasingly petrified when we saw the storm coming our way. I had no idea New Orleans would get decimated the way it did. We wrapped shooting about a week before the storm slammed into the gulf.

Many of the locations in the film are now gone. People who lost their homes have asked to see the film just to remember how they looked. It's hard for me to imagine that these places don't exist anymore. It's even harder for me to imagine that so little has been done to rebuild these places. The images in the film are a reminder of how glorious a place it was, and can be again."