Trouble the Water

Year: 2008
Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
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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 of 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.

Academy Awards, USA 2009 Nominated Oscar Best Documentary, Features - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2008 Won Full Frame/Working Films Award - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal; Won Jury Award Best Picture - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal; Won Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Gotham Awards 2008 Won Best Documentary - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Image Awards 2009 Nominated Image Award Outstanding Documentary
PGA Awards 2009 Nominated Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award - Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures - Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Silverdocs Documentary Festival 2008 Won Honorable Mention Best Documentary - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Sundance Film Festival 2008 Won Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal

9th of October, Friday - 19:30 (Hall #3 «Rome»)
11th of October, Sunday - 16:30 (Hall #3 «Rome»)

The film will be presented by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal and discussion with the audience will follow.