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Spike Lee (August 12, 2006)
"For me the hardest
aspect was the interview with Kim Polk. That’s much harder to deal
with than [showing] dead bodies. When I interviewed her, she was
holding a picture of her 5 year old daughter Serena….
The Polk family was
gracious and allowed us to bring our cameras to the funeral. The
most poignant shot, in my opinion, in the entire four hours, is that
final shot of Episode 3 where Kim just completely breaks down and
her little boy runs in the frame completely unaware that his sister
is dead. You see him run after Kim and we fade to black.
That happened! We were
just there. We didn’t direct the kid. It’s just one of those magical
moments that we were able to capture."
(On How Levees Footage Affects
Him, When the Levees Broke Press Junket)
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