SPIKE LEE - LEE WINS TOP JOURNALISM AWARD FOR KATRINA DOC

LEE WINS TOP JOURNALISM AWARD FOR KATRINA DOC

Director SPIKE LEE has added a top American journalism award to his slew of filmmaking plaudits, for his anti-US government movie covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The MALCOLM X filmmaker was honoured for WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS, which documents life after the storm hit in August 2005. Lee was lauded alongside longtime collaborator, SAM POLLARD, who produced the film, for illustrating evidence of the government's poor handling of the situation in New Orleans post-Katrina. The awards, created in honour of CBS reporter GEORGE W. POLK who died reporting from the Greek civil war, are regarded as one of journalism's top prizes. Pollard and Lee have worked together on MO' BETTER BLUES, JUNGLE FEVER, GIRL 6, CLOCKERS and BAMBOOZLED. The pair will receieve their award on 12 April (07) at a ceremony in New York.