Trouble the Water

Trouble the Water is a documentary film by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal that shows a couple struggling to survive after Hurricane Katrina. The film received a nomination for an Academy Award in 2009 for Best Documentary Feature, but the Oscar was awarded to Man on Wire.

Aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott document life during and after Hurricane Katrina. The film chronicles their life over 2 years after the storm along, showing viewers their anger, fear and disappointment in how the storm was handled.

"You can't help wanting -- and maybe needing -- to read into her indomitable spiritedness something like a reason for hope. For her, for other Katrina survivors, for all of us."—Joe Leydon of the Houston ChronicleHouston Chronicle: Trouble the Water Review (October 30, 2008)

"The footage – edited and augmented by Michael Moore’s collaborators Tia Lessin and Carl Deal – is unpolished, but the stories and commentary are as inspirational as they are harrowing."—Wendy Ide of the Times OnlineTimes Online: Trouble the Water Review (December 4, 2008)