"This is a transformative film: one of the most powerful and illuminating documentaries of our time. It boils with rage, sadness, love, hope, reality. It is not about a hurricane. It is about America."
- Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo

From the producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, the Academy Award® nominated Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Featuring footage taken by two 9th Ward residents trapped in the city – self-described street hustlers who become heroes – they document their harrowing ordeal as the waters rise and fill their home.

Seamlessly weaving this home movie footage with archival news segments and film footage shot over two years, filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal document a journey of remarkable people surviving not only failed levees, bungling bureaucrats and armed soldiers, but also their own past.

Trouble the Water was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2009. It won the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Grand Jury Award and the Working Films Award at the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Festival, and The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights, the Gotham Independent Film Award and the Special Jury Prize at the 2008 AFI/Silverdocs Festival.

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