DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Trouble the water / Louverture Films presents ; an Elswhere Films production ; directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal.

[New York] : Zeitgeist Films, ©2009.

1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. stamping

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

This documentary takes the viewer inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts -- an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward -- directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating portrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the Water takes audiences on a journey that is by turns heart-stopping, infuriating, inspiring and empowering. It is not only about the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, but about the underlying issues that remained when the flood waters receded -- failing public schools, record high levels of incarceration, poverty, structural racism and lack of government accountability.

Roberts, Kimberly Rivers.

Roberts, Scott (Scott Michael)

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Personal narratives.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

Women rap musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.

African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.

Disaster victims -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.

New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

New Orleans (La.) -- History.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Lessin, Tia, film director, film producer.

Deal, Carl, film director, film producer.

Roberts, Kimberly Rivers, on-screen participant, composer (expression)

Roberts, Scott (Scott Michael), on-screen participant.

Raval, P. J. (Paul James), director of photography.

Richman, T. Woody, editor of moving image work.

Lampson, Mary, editor of moving image work.

Davidge, Neil, 1962- composer (expression)

Del Naja, Robert, 1965- composer (expression)

Louverture Films (Firm), presenter.

Elsewhere Films (Firm), production company.

Zeitgeist Films, film distributor.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008.

DVD package and menu design: Zeitgeist Films Ltd. c2009.

Special features: deleted and extended scenes; conversations with the directors, subjects, film critic Richard Roeper, Danny Glover; Trouble the water at the 2008 Democratic National Convention; theatrical trailer.

Directors of photography, PJ Raval, Kimberly Rivers Roberts ; editor and co-producer, T. Woody Richman ; executive producers, Joslyn Barnes, Danny Glover ; additional editing, Mary Lampson ; original score, Davidge/Del Naja ; introducing the music of Black Kold Madina.

Kimberly Rivers Roberts, Scott Roberts.

DVD, 16:9 anamorphic widescreen presentation enhanced for widescreen televisions, NTSC, Region 1, stereo.

In English with optional Spanish subtitles and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Sundance Film Festival, 2008: Winner, Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary.

Live and direct -- This is my neighborhood -- Like an ocean -- Higher ground -- Wet nightmare -- Alexandria -- FEMA "limbo land" -- A new beginning -- Freedom exists somewhere -- Amazing -- Return to France Street -- The Ninth Ward will rise.

Special features: Extended and deleted scenes (ca. 19 min.) ; Q & A segments from: Roger Ebert Film Festival -- New Orleans community premiere -- DNC: Kim meets her mayor (ca. 41 min. total) ; original theatrical trailer.

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DVD 363.34922 Trouble