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This astonishingly powerful documentary, at once horrifying and exhilarating, won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at this year’s Sundance. Two weeks after Katrina made landfall, New York filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal flew to Louisiana to make a film about soldiers returning from Iraq who were now homeless. But the National Guard closed off access. Just when the filmmakers were ready to disband their crew, Kim and Scott Roberts, streetwise and indomitable, introduced themselves. Kim had bought a camcorder the day before the hurricane, and using it for the first time, she captured the devastation and its pathetic aftermath, including the selfless rescue of neighbors and the appalling failure of government. The strong center of Trouble The Water, though, are the Roberts themselves who, says Deal, “survived all the storms of their lives not because they were lucky, but because they had intelligence, guts, and the kind of hope that is based in will rather than experience.”
Thu Apr 3: 6:15pm (MoMA)
Sun Apr 6: 4:30pm (WRT)
Tia Lessin’s film work includes producing roles for Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine and Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism, Carl Deal has written reports for Greenpeace, Amnesty International and Public Citizen. With Trouble The Water, they make their feature-length debuts.
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Thu Apr 3: 6:15 (MoMA)
Sun Apr 6: 4:30 (WRT)
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