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A special screening of the film “Forgotten on the Bayou: Rockey’s Mission to the White House” will take place Aug. 28 in the Nunez Auditorium. This is a free event and open to the public. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the film scheduled for 7 p.m.
A special screening of the film “Forgotten on the Bayou: Rockey’s Mission to the White House” will take place Aug. 28 in the Nunez Auditorium.
This is a free event and open to the public. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the film scheduled for 7 p.m. A question-and-answer period with the film’s creator and subject will follow the screening.
One year following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, filmmaker Steven Scaffidi and St. Bernard Parish hurricane survivor Rockey Vaccarella towed a FEMA trailer to Washington to invite President George W. Bush to dinner so they could deliver a message from the people of the Gulf Coast: "Don't forget us...the job's not done."
Their journey to the White House made world news and, against all odds, Rockey was eventually invited to meet with the President for nearly an hour in the Oval Office.
Scaffidi documents this amazing journey in his film, which won a slew of international film festival awards, including the Humanitarian Vision Special Achievement Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
The film premiered in 2007 to a packed house in the Nunez Auditorium before screening across America, including a special theatrical event in San Diego at the invitation of the San Diego Film Society. The film eventually premiered on national television in a primetime event on the Weather Channel and also ran on Fox Television.
Now, twenty years following the worst natural disaster to hit the Gulf Coast, "Forgotten on the Bayou" will screen again where it all started, at the Nunez Auditorium in the AST Building on the Nunez campus.
For more information contact Steven Scaffidi of Ghost Rider Pictures at [email protected] or 504-669-0189, or Nunez Events Manager Anahi Landry at [email protected] or 504-278-6408.
