Description:Election time in New Orleans: Corruption. Racism. Dancing in the streets. And one loose- lipped pol trying to get re-elected. Let the good times roll.

New Orleans' long history of political dysfunction and complicated racial dynamics gets a new lease on life when Stacy Head, a no holds barred white woman, wins a seat on the city council after Katrina. Four years later, she needs to get black votes to be re-elected. But will her record of blunt talk doom her chances? GETTING BACK TO ABNORMAL follows the unlikely odd couple of Head and her irrepressible black political advisor Barbara Lacen-Keller as they try to navigate New Orleans' treacherous political scene. With its cast of only-in-New-Orleans characters, GETTING BACK TO ABNORMAL is a provocative and amusing look at race in America, set against the backdrop of New Orleans' rich culture.

Paul Stekler's documentaries about American politics have won numerous national honors including multiple Emmys, Peabodys and du-Pont-Columbia Journalism awards. His films include Sundance Special Jury Prize winner George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (directed and produced with Dan McCabe), Vote for Me: Politics in America (directed and produced with Louie Alvarez and Andy Kolker), Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style (which aired on PBS's P.O.V. series), two of the Eyes on the Prize civil rights series films, and Frontline's The Choice 2008, about the Obama-McCain election race, which he co-produced and wrote with director Michael Kirk. His latest film, Getting Back to Abnormal, an ITVS funded film about New Orleans and race relations after Katrina, made with Alvarez, Kolker and Peter Odabashian, will premiere at SXSW 2013. Dr. Stekler has a doctorate in American politics and worked as political pollster in Louisiana. He lives in Austin where he teaches documentary film production, is the Chair of the Radio-Television-Film Dept. at the University of Texas, and was a founder of the LBJ School's Center for Politics and Governance.

Dr. Stekler will talk briefly before the film and answers questions afterwards. The film is 90 minutes long.