Trouble the Water, the Oscar-nominated documentary directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath premieres tonight on HBO at 8:30pm.  It is a must see.

Here’s an excerpt from my write-up from last summer when the film was released.

“One of the things that is so remarkable about the film is that this was not the film that Deal and Lessin set out to make. They were in the area two weeks after Katrina working on a story about the Louisiana National Guard troops, and into their camera frame walked this amazing force of energy Kimberly Rivers Roberts who told them she had a story to tell. And boy did she. She and her husband Scott lived in the 9th ward just barely getting by surviving by any means necessary. As the storm approached she took out her new video camera that she had used only once before, and this amateur filmmaker with only a single tape and battery was able to record images of Katrina right from the storm’s center.”

Trouble The Water

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