Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek
“THIS INTIMATE FILM TELLS A GIGANTIC STORY … It’s about everything that matters in our society.”
– Bill Bigelow, RETHINKING SCHOOLS
“A POWERFUL FILM for all those interested in social and environmental justice.”
– Stephen L. Hupp, LIBRARY JOURNAL
“WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND this documentary film about a middle school teacher who leads an environmental justice battle in a historic African American community in Mississippi.”
– Deborah Menkart, TEACHING FOR CHANGE
“VIEWERS WILL BE TOUCHED by Evans’ courage and self-sacrifice and gain insight into the region’s historical, environmental, and racial issues.”
– Candance Smith, BOOKLIST
“EXPOSES RAW IN-YOUR-FACE Mississippi politics … a perfect lesson that we are not living in a post-racial era.”
– Dr. Robert Bullard, Dean, School of Public Affairs, TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
“A POWERFUL STORY of one man’s good fight.”
– C. Cassady, VIDEO LIBRARIAN
“The story, like any good Southern Gothic, starts out slow. But things really pick up when the mayor of Gulfport calls the activists of Turkey Creek ‘dumb bastards.’ And just when you think victory is at hand, Hurricane Katrina nearly wipes the community out. Turkey Creek is a small story with a big message.”
– David Freeman, JUST SEEN IT
- “Southern survival: On the Gulf Coast, a community fights for its life,” Grist
- “Reel Power at Power Shift,” Working Films
- “‘Turkey Creek’ Bridges the Gulf,” SF360: San Francisco Film Society
