{"id":32,"date":"2014-02-12T05:57:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2019-12-03T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T23:07:08","slug":"press-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/about-the-film\/press-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Press &#038; Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t<div id=\"fws_69e9fadf5c97c\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid standard_section   \" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"col span_12 dark \">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span10 wpb_column column_container col\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek<\/h2>\n<div class=\"nectar-social\"><a class='facebook-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='icon-facebook'><\/i> <span class='count'><\/span><\/a><a class='twitter-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Tweet this'> <i class='icon-twitter'><\/i> <span class='count'><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201c<strong>THIS INTIMATE FILM TELLS A GIGANTIC STORY<\/strong> &#8230; It&#8217;s about everything that matters in our society.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8211; Bill Bigelow,<strong> RETHINKING SCHOOLS<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201c<strong>A POWERFUL FILM<\/strong> for all those interested in social and environmental justice.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8211; Stephen L. Hupp,<strong> LIBRARY JOURNAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201c<strong>WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND<\/strong> this documentary film about a middle school teacher who leads an environmental justice battle in a historic African American community in Mississippi.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8211; Deborah Menkart, <strong>TEACHING FOR CHANGE<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201c<strong>VIEWERS WILL BE TOUCHED<\/strong> by Evans&#8217; courage and self-sacrifice and gain insight into the region&#8217;s historical, environmental, and racial issues.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8211; Candance Smith,<strong> BOOKLIST<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201c<strong>EXPOSES\u00a0RAW IN-YOUR-FACE<\/strong> Mississippi politics &#8230; a perfect lesson that we are not living in a post-racial era.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8211; Dr. Robert Bullard, Dean, School of Public Affairs, <strong>TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201c<strong>A POWERFUL STORY<\/strong> of one man&#8217;s good fight.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8211; C. Cassady,<strong>\u00a0VIDEO LIBRARIAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cThe 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 &#8216;dumb bastards.&#8217; And just when you think victory is at hand, Hurricane Katrina nearly wipes the community out. <em>Turkey Creek<\/em> is a small story with a big message.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8211; David Freeman, <strong>JUST SEEN IT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/southern-survival-on-the-gulf-coast-a-community-fights-for-its-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southern survival: On the Gulf Coast, a community fights for its life<\/a>,\u201d Grist<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/workingfilms.org\/blog\/?p=2894\" target=\"_blank\">Reel Power at Power Shift<\/a>,\u201d Working Films<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sf360.org\/Articles\/In-Production\/?pageid=13112\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey\u00a0Creek&#8217;\u00a0Bridges\u00a0the\u00a0Gulf<\/a>,&#8221; SF360: San Francisco Film Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> <div  class=\"divider-border\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div class=\"vc_span2 wpb_column column_container col\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t<div id=\"fws_69e9fadf5cceb\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid standard_section   \" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"col span_12 dark \">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span10 wpb_column column_container col\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Turkey Creek<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Like the rest of coastal Mississippi, Turkey Creek was reeling four weeks after Katrina. But residents of this venerable settlement also were looking forward &#8212; reasoning that the hurricane might bring recognition to one of southern Mississippi&#8217;s few historic areas to survive the storm.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>&#8211; ELIZABETH MEHREN,<\/strong> Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthereunion.com\/mississippi-gulf-coast-defending-the-gulf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi Gulf Coast: Defending the Gulf<\/a>,&#8221; State of the Re:Union<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/environment\/2010-04-19-earth-day_N.htm?csp=usat.me\" target=\"_blank\">For Them, Earth Day Was Late In Coming<\/a>,&#8221; USA Today<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2005\/oct\/02\/nation\/na-turkeycreek2\" target=\"_blank\">After Hurricane, Eyes on Historic Area<\/a>,\u201d Los Angeles Times<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> <div  class=\"divider-border\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div class=\"vc_span2 wpb_column column_container col\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t<div id=\"fws_69e9fadf5cdc1\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid standard_section   \" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"col span_12 dark \">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span10 wpb_column column_container col\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Bridge the Gulf Project.org<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Residents of Gulf Coast neighborhoods \u2026 have stories to tell and also possess the basic tools to tell them; by providing a public forum, Bridge the Gulf weaves those stories together into a larger, crowdsourced narrative that&#8217;s more powerful than the sum of its parts.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>&#8211; KRISTIN MOE,<\/strong> Yes! Magazine<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/planet\/why-the-smartphone-became-the-lightsaber-of-the-environmental-justice-movement?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+yes%2Fmost-recent-articles+(Most+Recent+Articles+and+Blogs+-+YES!+magazine)\" target=\"_blank\">Why the Smartphone Became the Lightsaber of the Environmental Justice Movement<\/a>,\u201d Yes! 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