Trouble the water [videorecording] / Louverture Films presents an Elswhere Films production.

Publisher: New York : Zeitgeist Films, 2008.

Description: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Subject: Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Anecdotes.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Personal narratives.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Social aspects.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Credits: Directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal ; directors of photography, PJ Raval, Kimberly Rivers Roberts ; editor and co-producer, T. Woody Richman ; executive producers, Joslyn Barnes, Danny Glover ; additional editing, Mary Lampson ; original score, Davidge/Del Naja ; introducing the music of, Black Kold Madina.

Performers: Kimberly Rivers Roberts, Scott Roberts.

Notes: In English with optional Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Winner, Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary, Sundance Film Festival, 2008.

Summary: "This astonishing powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the Water takes audiences on a journey that is by turns heart-stopping, infuriating, inspiring and empowering. It's not only about the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, but about the underlying issues that remained when the flood waters receded-failing public schools, record high levels of incarceration, poverty, structural racism and lack of government accountability"--Container.