Trouble The Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. It's a redemptive tale of two self-described street hustlers who become heroes-two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall-twenty-four year old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts is turning her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. It's going to be a day to remember Kim declares. With no means to leave the city and equipped with... just a few supplies and her hi 8 camera she and her husband Scott tape their harrowing ordeal as the storm rages the nearby levee breaches and floodwaters fill their home and their community. Seamlessly weaving 15 minutes of this home movie footage shot the day before and the day after the storm with archival news segments and verite footage shot over two years directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal document a journey of remarkable people surviving not only failed levees bungling bureaucrats and armed soldiers but also their own past. Directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal and Executive Produced by Joslyn Barnes and Danny Glover of Louverture Films edited and co-produced by T. Woody Richman with addiitonal editing by Mary Lampson Trouble the Water features an original musical score by Neil Davidge and Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack and the music of Dr. John Mary Mary Citizen Cope TK Soul John Lee Hooker and the Free Agents Brass Band and introduces the music of Black Kold Madina. Trouble the Water has been supported by grants from the Sundance Institute the Open Society Institute and is a project of Creative Capital. [show more]
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Hard-hitting documentary that focuses on one family's attempts to survive the chaos of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Opting to stay in their home when the full force of the hurricane struck, Kimberly and Robert Scott emerged to find their neighbourhood decimated and the streets submerged. Over the following weeks and months, using a hand-held camera, they charted the inadequate attempts of the federal agencies to restore normality, in the process cataloguing the failures of a world superpower to safeguard the lives of its own citizens, and raised worrying questions about the level of social injustice in America today.
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