This year’s MTV Video Music Awards are set to be an especially genre- and generation-crossing affair. STREAM IT: The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe tells the true story of a man who faked his own death One woman recounts having suffered a tumor after living in a FEMA trailer with formaldehyde, and another was killed amid the Crescent City's increased violence not long after having sat for an interview. Sadly, many of them have continued to suffer the consequences long after the storm moved out, not just mentally but physically, too. Others feel the same, they explain in interviews, their stories illustrated with news footage and cartoons. And those cousins, the best friends that he'd spent so many hours with at regular family get-togethers? He didn't see them for years, and it shook his identity to lose his community at such a young age. He ended up going to a school in a parish to the north for almost an entire school year. He remembers being worried about his cousins whose parents had chosen to ride out the storm. And it's made by first-time filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr., who was 12 when his parents decided, at the last minute, to evacuate from the city where his extended family made their home. While there's many documentaries on the death and destruction that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005, this one stands apart because it specifically takes stock of how the kids of that era have been affected. (Yahoo Entertainment may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page.) WATCH IT: A filmmaker goes back to his roots in the HBO doc Katrina Babies
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