I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful
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Grandmother's Cooking
Carolyn remembers her grandmother's home cooking in Louisiana.
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Carolyn explains how thankful she was for still having her house after Katrina.
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Carolyn, who was fair as a child, remembers her first encounter with segregation on a bus with her grandmother.
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Carolyn explains why she never used recipes as a cook, and then as a licensed chef.
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Carolyn remembers how she used to make dresses for her mother when she was young.
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Carolyn remembers addressing a committee concerning the rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
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Jonathan Demme's portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans tells the story of Carolyn Parker, a lifelong resident of the Lower Ninth Ward, who is fighting for the right to rebuild her home and community.
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Jonathan Demme's portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans tells the story of Carolyn Parker, a lifelong resident of the Lower Ninth Ward, who is fighting for the right to rebuild her home and community.
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Filmmaker Interview
Jonathan Demme talks about his portrait documentary of a woman from the Lower Ninth Ward.
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After a screening at the Brooklyn Museum, producer Daniel Wolff talked about making I'm Carolyn Parker and updated the audience on the film's central characters.
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