Trouble the Water

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Trouble the Water
Directed by	Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Produced by	Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Music by	Davidge/Del Naja and introducting Black Kold Madina
Cinematography	PJ Raval and Kimberly Rivers Roberts
Editing by	T. Woody Richman
Release date(s)	Sundance Film Festival: 20 January 2008
Running time	94 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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Trouble the Water is a 2008 documentary film directed by Tia Lessin, and Carl Deal, producers of Fahrenheit 9/11. The film 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.

The film won the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.^[1]

The film won the Grand Jury Award at the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Festival, as well as the Working Films Award and The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights