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AFTER THE SHOW Doc Competition Film Tells A Tale Of Broadway Auditions, Score By Ahrens/Flaherty
AFTER THE STORM was executive produced by James Lecesne and by John and Ed Priddy, (51 Birch Street) who previously collaborated with Medalia in producing To Die In Jerusalem and 39 Pounds of Love, and was produced by Medalia, Lecesne and the Priddys. Bob Eisenhardt, A.C.E. (Valentino: The Last Emperor; Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing) edited the film. Composer Stephen Flaherty, who together with writer and lyricist Lynn Ahrens, has created multi-award winning productions including “Once On This Island”, “Ragtime” and “Seussical”, composed the original score for AFTER THE STORM.
Katrina Youth Take Center Stage to Heal in Festival Doc
Hilla Medalia was at an impasse with her documentary, To Die in Jerusalem, when she decided to accompany Broadway theater veteran James Lecesne to New Orleans, with her camera in tow. Jerusalem had been inspired by accounts of a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber and her Israeli victim, and Medalia had hoped to bring their two grieving mothers together, but political red tape shut down the production. As she searched for a new project, she chanced to learn of Lecesne’s plans to visit another ravaged area inhabited by parents and children in crisis: the city of New Orleans, two years after Hurricane Katrina.
“I’m not a carpenter; I can’t build a house, but I know about the theater,” Lecesne says in Medalia’s new documentary, After the Storm, which had its world premiere on June 21 amid some 200 films at the Los Angeles Film Festival this week. It is one of seven contenders for the best documentary prize, to be announced on June 28. “I know how to tell a story … and I thought coming down here to help people tell their stories might help.” A second public screening was scheduled for Thursday, June 25, at The Regent.
