In 2013, Stekler reunited with Alvarez, Kolker, and editor/producer Peter Odabashian on "Getting Back to Abnormal" (gettingbacktoabnormal.com), a film about New Orleans politics five years after Katrina. The film premiered at the SXSW film festival and aired on PBS's POV series. The Los Angeles Times described it as “poetry… every frame is full of life,” the New Orleans Advocate called it “raucous and brilliant,” the Boston Globe said it “embodies all the drama of living life in post-racial America,” “an entertaining portrayal of New Orleans in all its glorious dysfunction” wrote the Austin American Statesman, the Washington Post said “a fabulous introduction to N’awlins-style politics,” and the National Journal called it “a film unlike any you have ever seen before.”