GUARDIANS OF THE FLAME
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Maupintown Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTION - Indianapolis Black Documentary Film Festival Mardi Gras • Jazz • African-American Self-Emancipation • Community Literacy • Power of Family • Beading as a Cultural Art Date of Completion: 2023 | Run Time: 70 minutes | Language: English with English, French & Spanish subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Daniel Wolff | Producers: Bonnie Elder Yassky, Brooklyn Demme & Nkem Big Chief Brian Nelson GUARDIANS OF THE FLAME is the product of some 17 years, begun on a visit to post-Katrina New Orleans in 2006 by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme and writer Daniel Wolff. Their visits continued, 4-times-a-year, for the next six years. After Demme's death, in 2017, Wolff, Demme's son Brooklyn, and a film crew returned to New Orleans in 2019 to bring the project up to date. The desire to finish this project and the persistence to do so comes from the Harrison family's inspirational work in w