Trouble the Water screening in April

Posted March 22, 2008 by k_c_ in Events

A friend of mine was working on this documentary, on what seemed like forever. Im proud to report that its done and screeningin NYC, in April. Trouble the Water will be screened as part of the programming at the New Directors/New Films Festival a

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."

Tickets are on sale at MoMA and the Walter Reade Theater box office as well as at the Film Society's Website.

Trouble the Water
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, US, 2007; 90m
Thu Apr 3: 6:15pm (MoMA)
Sun Apr 6: 4:30pm (WRT)

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