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

The tentacles of political power, corruption and official evasion are recoiling themselves around a divided New Orleans, reports Jim Gabour.

The epidemic of “swine flu” has a special resonance in a city of ghosts whose history warns - and inoculates against - the present, says Jim Gabour.

There are second and even third acts in American political lives. So the Republican Party hopes, says Jim Gabour on the eve of Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Where will the Republican Party go in the age of Barack Obama? The political swamps of Louisiana offer a clue, says Jim Gabour.

"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)