Independent America: Rising from Ruins takes Patois Award for Best Feature

Katrina doc, Independent America: Rising from Ruins, has won the Best Feature at Patios: New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival. The fest is dedicated to nurturing the city's human rights community and created by artists and activists.

April 15, 2009

Katrina doc, Independent America: Rising from Ruins, has won the Best Feature at Patios: New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival. The fest is dedicated to nurturing the city’s human rights community and created by artists and activists.

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Barry Walsh is editor and content director for realscreen, and has served as editor of the publication since 2009. With a career in entertainment media that spans two decades, prior to realscreen, he held the associate editor post for now defunct sister publication Boards, which focused on the advertising and commercial production industries. Before Boards, he served as editor of Canadian Music Network, a weekly music industry trade, and as music editor for HMV.com. As content director, he also oversees the development of content for the brand's market-leading events, the Realscreen Summit and Realscreen West, as well as new content initiatives.

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