Trouble the Water.....It's Not About a Hurricane, It's About America

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http://troublethewaterfilm.com/


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Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Trouble the Water is directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. The film tells the story of an aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband, trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters, who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. It’s a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes that takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen.

Trouble the Water opens the day before Katrina makes landfall, just blocks away from the French Quarter but far from the New Orleans that tourists know. Kimberly Rivers Roberts is turning her video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. “It’s going to be a day to remember,” Kim says excitedly into her new camera as the storm is brewing. It’s her first time shooting video and it’s rough, jumpy but dense with reality. Kim’s playful home-grown newscast tone grinds against the audience’s knowledge that hell is just hours away. There is no way for the audience to warn her. And for New Orleans’ poor, there is nowhere to run.

As the hurricane begins to rage and the floodwaters fill their world and the screen, Kim and her husband Scott continue to film, documenting their harrowing voyage to higher ground and dramatic rescues of friends and neighbors.

Intertwining Kim and Scott’s insider’s view of Katrina and powerful video with a mix of verite and in-your-face filmmaking, Deal and Lessin follow their story through the storm and its aftermath, and into a new life. Along the way, they discover Kim’s musical talent as rap artist Black Kold Madina when she finds the only existing copy of her recorded music survived the storm with a relative in Memphis. Kim’s performance in that moment reveals not only devastating skills as a musician, but compacts her life story into explosive poetry that paints a devastating picture of poverty.

Directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal and Executive Produced by Joslyn Barnes and Danny Glover of Louverture Films, edited and co-produced by T. Woody Richman, with addiitonal editing by Mary Lampson, Trouble the Water features an original musical score by Neil Davidge and Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack, and the music of Dr. John, Mary Mary, Citizen Cope, TK Soul, John Lee Hooker, and the Free Agents Brass Band and introduces the music of Black Kold Madina.


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CALIFORNIA
Shattuck Theatre Berkeley CA Starts September 5

Laemmle Town Center 5 Encino CA Starts August 29

Nevada Theatre Grass Valley CA September 28 Only!

Regal Westpark 8 Irvine CA Starts August 22

Sunset 5 Los Angeles CA Starts August 22

Pasadena Playhouse Pasadena CA Starts August 29

Crest Theater Sacramento CA Starts September 19

Ken Cinema San Diego CA Starts October 10

Sundance Kabuki Cinema San Francisco CA Starts September 5

Camera 3 San Jose CA Starts September 5

UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA November 20 - one day only!

COLORADO
Landmark Theatre Denver Denver CO Starts October 17

D.C.
E Street Cinema Washington DC Starts September 26

FLORIDA
Sunrise Cinemas-Mizner Park Boca Raton FL Starts October 17

Cosford Cinema at the University of Miami Coral Gables FL October 17 - 30

Sunrise Cinemas 11 Fort Lauderdale FL Starts October 17

Sunrise Cinemas-Intracoastal Mall North Miami Beach FL Starts October 17

GEORGIA
Midtown Art Cinema Atlanta GA Starts August 29

ILLINOIS
Century Centre Chicago IL Starts September 19

LOUISIANA
Canal Place Cinema New Orleans LA Starts September 19

Robinson Film Center Shreveport LA Starts October 31

MASSACHUSETTS
Kendall Square Cambridge MA Starts September 12

Triplex Cinemas Great Barrington MA Starts September 12

MARYLAND
Charles Theatre Baltimore MD Starts October 31

MICHIGAN
Detroit Institute of Art Detroit MI Starts October 31

State Theatre Traverse City MI August 29 - September 4

MINNESOTA
Lagoon Cinema Minneapolis MN Starts September 19

MISSOURI
Tivoli Theatre St. Louis MO Starts September 26

NEW YORK
Time & Space Limited Hudson NY Starts September 25

IFC Center New York NY Starts August 22

ImageNation at The Faison Firehouse Theater New York NY August 22 - September 7

Upstate Films Rhinebeck NY Starts August 29

OHIO
Gateway Theatre Columbus OH Starts September 26

PENNSYLVANIA
Ritz at the Bourse Philadelphia PA Starts October 3

TENNESSEE
Belcourt Theatre Nashville TN Starts October 28

TEXAS
Arbor Cinemas at Great Hills 8 Austin TX Starts October 31

Angelika Film Center Dallas TX Starts October 31

Angelika Film Center Houston TX Starts October 31

VERMONT
Savoy Theatre Montpelier VT Starts November 17

WASHINGTON
Varsity Theatre Seattle WA Starts October 17

WISCONSIN
Sundance Madison 608 Madison WI Starts October 17

Union Theatre Milwaukee WI Starts November 5

[malaise]

1. I want my own copy of this n/t

[marmar]

3. Agreed....The only DVDs I've bought in the last year (with the exception of Bourne Ultimatum)....

have been political documentaries.

[malaise]

4. I only buy documentaries period

We can borrow/rent the others.

[hisownpetard]

2. I can't wait to see this. Sounds amazing.