2013, USA, Directors: Richard Barber and Andre Lambertson, Producer: Richard Barber; 89 min.
Members of three school marching bands grow up in New Orleans, America’s most musical city, and one of its most dangerous. As their band directors get them ready to perform in the Mardi Gras parades, the students learn to succeed and to survive. The Whole Gritty City reveals the power and resilience of New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.