Trouble the Water

This film looks amazing! Perfect timing...

Morning Edition, August 29, 2008 · A week before Hurricane Katrina decimated parts of the Gulf Coast in August 2005, Kim Rivers Roberts bought a video camera.

"My state of mind was like, this could come in handy," Rivers Roberts tells Steve Inskeep. "My plan was just to film something I could sell."

So when the aspiring rap artist and her husband, Scott, became trapped in New Orleans' Ninth Ward by deadly floodwaters, she turned that camera on herself and her neighbors. What she filmed became part of a documentary, Trouble The Water, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival...