Documentary 

Kamp Katrina follows the bittersweet efforts of Ms. Pearl, a wiry 56 year-old woman who transforms her backyard into a tent city for a motley crew of people who have lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina. Ms. Pearl's hospitality comes with rules: no hard drugs, find employment, no getting drunk, and each camper has a six-month limit. The tenants run the gamut from perversely hilarious and inspiring to harrowing and horribly tragic. Kelly is one month pregnant and struggles with birthing her baby on Mardi Gras day; Tammy's humor is tempered by her brutal past; and Charles is possessed by Joan of Arc. As the weeks turn into months, despondency wears the fragile spirit of optimism that spawned Kamp Katrina. "The chaos, brutality and surreal humor of their situation" result in a haunting and shattering Katrina survival story that captures the city's wounded spirit more frankly that any of its contemporaries.