January Social Justice Film
Trouble the Water (2008) - Documentary ‧ 1h 33m
directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
“TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen.
The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall—just blocks away from the French Quarter. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, is turning her new video camera on herself and her neighbors trapped in the city.
The filmmakers document the couple’s return to New Orleans, the devastation of their neighborhood and the appalling repeated failures of government…TROUBLE THE WATER is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes—two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.” - Elsewhere Films
“A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning.”- IMDb
"Essential, unique viewing: a stunning experience of the hurricane and its aftermath, rooted in immediate personal response and emotions that encapsulate the full national catastrophe." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Learn more about Trouble the Water at https://elsewherefilms.org/work/trouble-the-water/
indieWIRE Interview Article - August 17th, 2008
“Trouble the Water” Co-Directors
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
“Like the rest of the country, we were stunned and outraged by the images we saw on television in the aftermath of Katrina. We wanted to know why the city had not been evacuated before the storm, and why help was so late in coming after the levees collapsed.” Read More