Nicky Yeager
Nic Yeager (they, she) is a writer based in Bed-Stuy. Originally from Austin, they have written about art, culture, and history for the Texas Observer, Texas Monthly, Dissent, and elsewhere.
Twenty years since the catastrophe of Katrina, New Orleans and Gulf Coast cinema finds the storm reverberating across times, aesthetics, and genres.
Between March 11 and 20, four Brooklyn-based short films screened at SXSW, each shot in Brooklyn and made by and featuring Brooklynites. SXSW is known for celebrating innovation in tech and education, and these projects offer their own kind of innovation: namely, an irreplaceable artistic ingenuity that flows out of this borough.
