October 20, 2006

The Storm Before the Storm

By ANNIE SHUPPY

A film that New Orleans-area college students made last year about a major hurricane hitting the city proved eerily prophetic just months later.

NOLA was being edited when Harold Sylvester, an adjunct professor in Tulane University's theater department, and the students — from Delgado Community College, Dillard University, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana — were forced to evacuate in the face of Hurricane Katrina. When Mr. Sylvester returned to Tulane