Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Come hell or high water : the battle for Turkey Creek / a coproduction of Zamler Productions LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting ; a documentary by Leah Mahan.

Publisher, Date:

Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, [2013]

Description:

1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video

Summary:

"Come Hell or High Water follows the painful but inspiring journey of Derrick Evans, a Boston teacher who moves home to coastal Mississippi when the graves of his ancestors are bulldozed to make way for the sprawling city of Gulfport. Over the course of a decade, Derrick and his neighbors stand up to powerful corporate interests and politicians and face ordeals that include Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster in their struggle for self-determination and environmental justice"--Container.

Subjects:

Evans, Derrick.

Urbanization -- Mississippi -- Gulfport.

Eminent domain -- Mississippi -- Gulfport.

Environmental justice -- Mississippi -- Gulfport.

African American cemeteries -- Mississippi -- Gulfport.

Historic sites -- Mississippi -- Gulfport.

African Americans -- Mississippi.

Cemeteries -- Mississippi.

Urbanization -- Mississippi.

Genre:

Social problem films.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Feature films -- United States.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Mahan, Leah, film director, film producer, director of photography.

Greenberg, Jane, film producer, editor of moving image work.

Evans, Derrick, on-screen participant.

Hodge, Derrick, composer (expression)

Zamler Productions, production company.

Independent Television Service, production company.

Mississippi Public Broadcasting, production company.

Bullfrog Films, publisher.

Other Title:

Battle for Turkey Creek

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2013.

Includes trailer.

Producer, director, cinematographer, Leah Mahan ; producer and editor, Jane Greenberg ; co-editors, William A. Anderson and Dawn Logsdon; composer, Derrick Hodge.

DVD, NTSC.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

ISBN:

0615892590

9780615892597

9786316832009 : DVD

6316832001 : DVD

Other Number:

879333219

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

667935

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 363.7 Come hel