Trouble the Water is coming to a theater near you! The film takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Winner of the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize,Trouble the Water features Kimberly and Scott Roberts, a young couple living on the margins who survive the flooding of their city by any means necessary, recording their experience in a chilling video diary which opens the film. Weaving fly on the wall and in-your-face filmmaking with home video footage and archival news, directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal tell a redemptive tale of two unforgettable people who are surviving not only failed levees, bungling bureaucrats, armed soldiers, but also their own past.
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About the film
Trouble the Water tells the story of two people trapped in New Orleans by deadly floods, who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. A redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes, it takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before Katrina makes landfall, as Kimberly Rivers Roberts turns her video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. As the hurricane begins to rage and the floodwaters begin to rise, Kim and her husband Scott continue to film, documenting their harrowing voyage to higher ground.
Trouble the Water also reveals the devastation of Kim and Scott's neighborhood and the repeated failures of local and national government. The film is directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal.
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Background
August 29th, 2009 marks the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Under well-established human rights standards, every survivor has a right to return home -- yet tens of thousands remain displaced.
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