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Trouble the Water documentary

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Original title: Trouble the Water
Year: 2008
Running time: 90 min.
Country: United States
Director: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Screenwriter: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Cast: Documentary, Self: Kimberly Rivers Roberts
Music: Neil Davidge, Robert Del Naja
Cinematography: PJ Raval, Nadia Hallgren, Kimberly Rivers Roberts
Producer: Elsewhere Films, Louverture Films, Zeitgeist Films
Genre: Documentary | Disaster Film. Based on a true story
Synopsis: How is it that Hurricane Katrina managed to revolutionize American attitudes about the environment, but somehow the very people most devastated by the storm have become refugees in their own country, and their experiences have been all but forgotten? In Trouble the Water, this voiceless population becomes vibrantly human as documentarians Tia Lessin and Carl Deal engage with native New Orleans filmmaker and musician Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband, Scott, to create a powerful, partly autobiographical survival story that reflects many of the lives of the people of New Orleans.

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Awards: 2008: Nominated for Oscar: Best Documentary

2008: Sundance: Best Documentary

2008: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Documentary

2008: Producers Guild Awards (PGA): Nominated for Best Documentary

2008: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Documentary.

2008: Gotham Awards: Best Documentary.

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Critics' reviews

"If possible, Roberts' movie-within-a-movie is even more amazing than it sounds. She captures a tale of courage, heroism and tragedy more thrilling than any Hollywood spectacle."

Andrew O'Hehir: Salon
"Essential, unique viewing."

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly
"The documentary shows outrageous behavior, none more so than when they and many others are directed to a nearby Navy base for refuge."

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"It's a damning indictment of a national disgrace, but it also reveals the incredible faith and resilience of people who have nothing to rely on but themselves."

J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader
"Enraging and inspiring. It boasts the miraculous quality of finding a letter in a bottle and discovering that its authors are alive."

Michael Sragow: Baltimore Sun

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