Trouble the Water (2008)

Directors

Carl Deal, Tia Lessin

The story

Trouble the Water opens with the filmmakers meeting 24-year-old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott at a Red Cross shelter in Central Louisiana, then flashes back two weeks, with Kimberly turning her new video camera on herself and her neighbors trapped in their 9th Ward attic as the storm rages. The film combines Roberts' footage of the day before and the morning of the storm with archival news segments, other home videos, and verité footage filmed over two years. Trouble the Water explores issues of race, class, and the relationship of the government to its citizens.

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