On the afternoon of April 27th, 2011, an EF4 tornado plowed through nearly six miles of Tuscaloosa, a small college town in central Alabama. A half-mile wide when it touched down, the tornado grew even wider and eventually destroyed 4,700 homes, damaged thousands more, wiped out scores of the city\u2019s businesses, injured over 1,500 people and took more than 50 lives. When President Obama visited Tuscaloosa three days later he said, \u201cI’ve never seen destruction like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
But as local filmmaker Andrew Beck Grace found out in the days after the storm, numbers, adjectives, even images only go so far in describing what it means to wake up to your world completely rearranged.<\/p>\n
After the Storm<\/i><\/b>, an immersive interactive documentary essay, tells the story of what happens after the storm passes, after the media leaves town, and after the adrenaline subsides. Written as a letter to future disaster survivors, the film is not so much about the how and why of the tornado but the question all of us face after living through something traumatic: how do we make sense of it all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After the Storm<\/i> is an interactive documentary that tells the first-person story of what happens in the wake of a devastating tornado that ripped through central Alabama in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"topic":[1219],"class_list":["post-323","films","type-films","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-health-and-environment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n