My Louisiana Love

My Louisiana Love (2012, directed by Sharon Linezo Hong, 57 minutes) follows artist Monique Verdin as she returns to Southeast Louisiana to reunite with her Houma Indian family. But soon she sees that her people's traditional way of life —fishing, trapping and hunting in these fragile wetlands–is threatened by a cycle of man-made environmental crises. The documentary shows Monique’s turn to activism after Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. The film is a personal reflection on the complex and uneven relationship between the oil industry and the Indigenous community of the Mississippi Delta.