Jim Gabour is a film producer, writer and director, whose work focuses primarily on music and the diversity of cultures. During his career, he has earned five Cable ACE Awards and medals at the International Film & Television Festival of New York and the WorldFest Film Festival.

Gabour was twice selected the featured director of the year at Amsterdam's International Broadcasters Conference, and recently received a Grammy nomination for his documentary on composer Terence Blanchard. He lives in New Orleans, where he is artist-in-residence and professor of video technology at Loyola University. His website is here.

Recent articles

"I see myself standing at the cusp of something wonderful". Jim Gabour, in New Orleans, tells an inside story of election-day in the United States.

(This article was first published on 5 November 2008)

The entertainment industry has transformed human visual capacity - and reshaped the outlook on electoral politics too, says Jim Gabour.

An everyday trauma in New Orleans is tinged with the extra pain of violation and betrayal. Jim Gabour lives it.

"I am staying this time, as I refuse to go through the fourteen-hour hell-in-a-tiny-car evacuation scenario I endured escaping the night before Katrina." Three years after the 2005 hurricane, New Orleans braces itself for a new assault. Many residents are leaving. Jim Gabour stocks up with fuel, batteries, books and liquor, rides out the storm - and tells it as it is.

"A horrible thing happened three years ago and we lived to tell the story, but at this point most of us have taken the attitude that we are owed nothing. No one is going to help. And with that mindset we go on." Jim Gabour writes about how he - and New Orleans - still live with hurricane Katrina.