After a dozen years making a film about a Gulf Coast community struggling to survive, what could be more fitting than a premiere screening at the New Orleans Film Festival?

The screening of Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek on Oct. 13 at 4:30 p.m. will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Leah Mahan, Derrick Evans (Turkey Creek Community Initiatives and Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health) and Reilly Morse (Mississippi Center for Justice). One of the film’s supporters, Chicken and Egg Pictures, is hosting related events earlier  in the day, including a panel discussion on “Post-Disaster Storytelling on the Gulf Coast” at 12:30 p.m. and a “Stories From the Gulf” reception at 3:45 p.m. All of the events take place at the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans, 900 Camp Street. Find out more at www.neworleansfilmsociety.org.

The following week, Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek will be shown at Power Shift, a gathering of 10,000 youth leaders in Pittsburgh. The film is screening here as part of Reel Power, a Working Films project that engages audiences around films that are “fueling the energy revolution.”

Later this year, the community journalism project Bridge the Gulf, a collaboration with the Gulf Coast Fund, will relaunch with a new design supported by the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the documentary will air on public television in 2014 with the support of ITVS and Mississippi Public Broadcasting.

To watch a trailer and learn more click  here.

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