From Sundance to the Cinema: Trouble the Water

An interview with directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal: 

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 trail native New Orleans filmmaker and hip-hop musician Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband, Scott, on a powerful journey of survival that leads from the Ninth Ward to Memphis and back again.

We talked with Tia Lessin and Carl Deal at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year about their film which garned the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the fest. The husband and wife director team chatted about scrapping their original film project after meeting the Roberts, how documentarians should abandon the idea of keeping a distance form their subjects, and why TROUBLE THE WATER is not a Katrina story, per se.

CHECK OUT THE INTERVIEW HERE

Trouble the Water opens Friday August 22nd in New York and Los Angeles

Posted on 08/15/08 by: FCFeatures 04:32 PM