Trouble the Water

Directors/ Producers:
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Release Date: 2008

Website: Film Website

Other online resouces: Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City Game

Trouble the Water was the winner of the 2008 Full Frame/Working Films Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival held annually in Durham, North Carolina.

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Trouble the Water, directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, tells the story of an aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband, trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters, who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. It’s a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes that takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen.

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