TROUBLE THE WATER
Directed by Tia Lessin & Carl Deal
Louverture Films is an Executive Producer
festivals & AWARDS
Emmy Awards 2010 - Nominee Outstanding Informational Programming: Long Form
Emmy Awards 2010 - Nominee Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research
Academy Awards 2009 - Nominee Best Documentary Feature
Producers Guild of America 2009 - Nominee PGA Award Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
NAACP Image Awards 2009 - Nominee Outstanding Documentary
Gotham Independent Film Awards 2009 - Best Documentary
Istanbul Film Festival 2009
Oslo International Film Festival 2008
Festival do Rio BR 2008
Seattle International Film Festival 2008
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2008 - Winner Grand Jury Award, Winner Full Frame/Working Films Award, Winner Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights
SilverDocs 2008 - Winner Special Jury Prize
New Directors/New Films 2008
Sundance Film Festival 2008 - Winner Grand Jury Prize
Feature documentary that takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film features Kimberly and Scott Roberts, a young couple living on the margins who survive the flooding of their city, recording their experience in a chilling video diary. Weaving fly on the wall and in-your-face filmmaking with home video footage and archival news, this is a redemptive tale of two unforgettable people who are surviving not only failed levees, bungling bureaucrats and armed soldiers, but also a system that has failed them.