Trouble The Water

Erny B.

Sypnosis: "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." (www.troublethewaterfilm.com)

So far, the movies has nabbed SunDance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize, Anne Dellinger's Grand Jury Award and the, Silver Docs Grand Jury Mention Award, among others. It has been a ton of other pending nominations. This is documentary to see. Visit the website www.troublethewater.com to find a screening near you and to find out how you can help.