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TROUBLE THE WATER AIRING ON HBO 4/23/09 @ 8:30 PM

By Jody Arlington on April 15, 2009 10:15 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Academy-Award nominated and Impact Film Festival selection TROUBLE THE WATER will be airing on HBO Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 8:30 PM.  Tia Lessin and Carl Deal were featured on this morning's MSNBC's Morning Joe discussing a central question, three years later, where is the "bailout" money for New Orleans?  And where is public attention on the ongoing human suffering?   If you didn't get a chance to see the Documentary in theaters or on the Festival circuit, don't miss it:

The day before Hurricane Katrina hit, 24-year-old Kimberly Rivers Roberts, a resident of New Orleans' 9th Ward, turned her new video camera on herself, declaring, "It's going to be a day to remember." With hardly any supplies and no way of leaving her hometown, Roberts taped her harrowing ordeal as Katrina raged and the levees failed. Directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, TROUBLE THE WATER opens with this unforgettable home video footage, then follows Kimberly and her husband Scott on a two-year odyssey - from the devastation of the storm to their escape from the city, to resettlement in Memphis, to an eventual return to a decimated New Orleans - telling a story of transformation, heroism and love. A 2008 Academy Award® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. Premieres on HBO Thursday, April 23 at 8:30pm ET/PT. Read more.