2008 Films

Award Winner Rescreening 05: Trouble the Water

• Trouble the Water

  
  2007. USA. 94 mins. Directed by Tia Lessin, Carl Deal. Produced by Tia Lessin, Carl Deal.

  On August 28th, 2005, New Orleans resident Kimberly Roberts turned on her video camera to document “how it really is, starting right now.” Within a few hours, Hurricane Katrina was pummeling her home in the Ninth Ward, mere blocks from one of the soon-to-fail levees. Kimberly tirelessly continued to film her husband Scott’s and her excruciating ordeal, from their night huddled in a cramped and leaking attic to the subsequent protracted search for shelter and financial support. Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal take this extraordinary footage to craft a brilliant, transformative film about beating the odds and surviving in the face of massive government ineptitude, indifference, and neglect. TW

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