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OSI-Supported Film Depicts Chilling Hurricane Katrina Tale
Nearly three years ago, Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott hunkered down in their home in New Orleans's Ninth Ward. With no means to leave the city and equipped with just a few supplies and a video camera, they documented their harrowing ordeal as the storm raged, the nearby levee failed, and floodwaters filled their home and their community.
On Friday, August 22, Trouble the Water—which begins with the couple's chilling home video and then follows their astonishing story in the aftermath of the disaster—opens in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, and in theaters throughout the country starting in September.
The film, directed and produced by OSI Katrina Media Fellow Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, and executive produced by Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and was hailed by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times as "one of the best American documentaries in recent memory."
For more information on theaters and tickets, see the Trouble the Water website.
