Free Screening: "Trouble the Water"

Posted August 4, 2008 by k_c_ in Events

There is a free outdoor screening of the film "Trouble the
Water" in Central Park
Wednesday, August 6th, 8:30pm
at the Reel Harlem Film Fest

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."

"Trouble the Water" will be in theaters starting the weekend of Aug.
22nd (in NYC at the IFC Center). Check out the distributor's website for more dates and cities.

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