Film Music Reporter

Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated composer Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Inside Man, The Woman King,25th Hour, Perry Mason, Da 5 Bloods, Red Tails) has provided the original score for the new Netflix original documentary series Katrina: Come Hell and High Water. The show is directed by Geeta Gandbhir (Episode 1), Samantha Knowles (Episode 2) & Spike Lee (Episode 3) and centers on a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors as they reflect on the disastrous storm in 2005 that forever changed their lives and the systemic inequities it exposed. The 3-parter features first-person accounts and never before seen archival footage that illustrate the magnitude of Katrina and the aftermath of the levees breaking and the bungled recovery. Alisa Payne serves (Stamped from the Beginning) as the the project’s showrunner and producer. Lee who has collaborated with Blanchard on numerous projects (including the filmmaker’s 2006 Katrina feature documentary When the Levees Broke) is also executive producing the series with Gandbhir (The Perfect Neighbor) and Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI, Citizen Ashe). Katrina: Come Hell and High Water will premiere next Wednesday, August 27 exclusively on Netflix.