Uneasy Does It, 1: Atlanta’s Tom Roche Edits Harry Shearer’s New Orleans Doc
Roche discusses how New Orleans could have avoided the worst of the Hurricane Katrina disaster
- Tom Roche
- Director Harry Shearer and Atlanta-based editor Tom Roche engineer a look at Post Katrina New Orleans
Tom Roche has worked as an editor for Atlanta-based Crawford Communications for over 20 years. His past projects include music videos for R.E.M., “Space Ghost Coast to Coast”, and Spinäl Tap’s Unwigged and Unplugged. Roche also directed the documentary feature Alley Pat, the Music is Recorded, which won the audience prize at the 2010 Atlanta Film Festival.
For the past few months, Roche has been working in New Orleans with actor, artist, musician, and satirist Harry Shearer on The Big Uneasy, a feature documentary that exposes engineering failures as the true cause of the Katrina tragedy and how it could have been prevented.
With The Big Uneasy set to screen for one day only on Monday, August 30th at 7:00pm & 9:30pm at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, I reached out to Tom to talk politics, docs, music, radio and the importance of the French article “le.”