Stekler's first collaboration with Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker (The Center for New American Media), friends from New Orleans, was Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics (1991), which aired on PBS's POV series. The film examines the colorful, Byzantine political culture of Louisiana, from the days of Huey Long up to the present. It won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award and was nominated for an Emmy. It was described in the Boston Globe as a “look at the flamboyant political history of the Bayou State, (that’s) every bit as insightful as it is entertaining,” a “sassy yet serious review of the revels” by the New York Times, “marvelously entertaining” by the Texas Observer, and as “tragicomic… replete with the kind of imagery and sound-bites that incite voters to term limitations, if not revolution.”