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 Trouble the Water, a film by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. A Zeitgeist Films release. |
OSI-Supported Film About Hurricane Katrina Earns Oscar Nod
Trouble the Water, a documentary film co-directed and co-produced by OSI fellow Tia Lessin, has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary.
Lessin was one of six filmmakers who received an OSI Katrina Media Fellowship in 2006, enabling her to complete and distribute Trouble the Water.
Trouble the Water is a feature-length documentary that follows the journey of Kim and Scott Medina, a young African-American couple from New Orleans's Ninth Ward who survived Hurricane Katrina and brought dozens of friends and neighbors to safety. The film offers a window into how the hurricane impacted society's most vulnerable-the elderly, the poor, the hospitalized, and the incarcerated-and examines the new underclass of "Katrina homeless."
Trouble the Water has been shown in 170 cities so far. The film continues to open in theaters throughout the country; click here to see the list sorted by state.
