DocMiami International Film Festival

Five years ago, a disaster struck New Orleans. The media said it was a natural disaster and the media were wrong.In his feature-length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there. You meet the investigators who poked through the muck as the water receded and a whistle-blower from the Army Corps of Engineers, revealing that some of the same flawed methods responsible for the catastrophic levee failures during Katrina are being used to rebuild the system expected to protect New Orleans from future peril.