Murda Capital {New Orleans Documentary}

MURDA CAPITAL documents the harsh reality of the ghettos of post-Katrina New Orleans. The murder rate continues to rise without any sign of slowing down. Artist , entrepreneur, designer, Financial Freedom Fighter and New Orleans native Zül-Qarnaįn, armed with only a camera sets out into New Orleans’ most treacherous projects to try to find out why the crescent city is so violent. Real people from the hood share their stories of how murder has affected their lives and shed insight on the root of the problem. A convicted murder, fresh from an eleven year prison sentence urges young people not to make the same mistakes he made. A mother mourns the losses of all four of her sons to gun violence. Zül-Qarnaįn travels from ward to ward, asking people from all parts of the city to come forward and speak out against violence. He visits an ex-killer who lies in a hospital bed after a man seeking revenge shot him with an AK-47. Zül-Qarnaįn gives us access to the part of New Orleans they do