Trouble the Water (2008)

Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen The film opens the day before the storm makes landfalljust blocks away from the French Quarter but far from the New Orleans that most tourists knew Kimberly Rivers Roberts an aspiring rap artist is turning her new video camera on herself and her Ninth Ward neighbors trapped in the city Weaving an insiders view of Katrina with a mix of verité and inyourface filmmaking it is a redemptive tale of selfdescribed street hustlers who become heroestwo unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning