Today, as they have for more than a century, New Orleans jazz funerals and Sunday second line parades absorb the pain of death and the legacy of racism, soaring to the transcendent joy of rebirth. In the documentary CITY OF A MILLION DREAMS, filmed by director Jason Berry over more than 20 years, a violent storm and a parade shooting plunge the subjects, clarinetist Dr. Michael White and culture carrier Deb "Big Red" Cotton, into a search for the city’s soul.

The film has screened at the Heartland International Film Festival, the Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival, the Sarasota Film Festival, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the New Orleans Film Festival, and at Visions of the Black Experience in Sarasota; and has had many community and educational screenings.

For more info, visit [ Ссылка ] or write us at cityofamilliondreamsfilm@gmail.com.

As the film launches, four recent reviews tell more:

"New film offers a portrait of New Orleans, told through its unique jazz funerals" in the Washington Post: [ Ссылка ]

"New film uses jazz funerals as prisms reflecting, or refracting, the joyous soul of New Orleans" in the Washington Examiner: [ Ссылка ]

"‘City of a Million Dreams’ Chronicles the Dangers and Mystic Pleasures of Living on the Threshold" in the Bayou Brief: [ Ссылка ]

"A New Doc Shines a Loving Light on the New Orleans Jazz Funeral" in the Daily Beast: [ Ссылка ]

Director Jason Berry shares his insights on making the film, and on Congo Square today, in the Daily Beast: [ Ссылка ]

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