National Building Museum
 

Film: Trouble the Water
Presented at AFI Silver Theater

Free screening!
Sun, May 3, 12:45

TROUBLE THE WATER

The how-we-lost-our-home movies taken by New Orleans native Kimberly Roberts during Hurricane Katrina are the spine of…a film that’s as harrowing for what Mother Nature can do as for what the U.S. Government can’t.” –John Anderson, Newsday

Trouble the Water poster

 

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Trouble the Water is directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. 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 [note courtesy of AFI Docs].   “[A]n ingeniously fluid narrative structure that, when combined with Ms. Roberts’s visuals, news material and their own 16-millimeter film footage, ebbs and flows like great drama.” –Manohla Dargis, The New York Times.
DIR/SCR/PROD Carl Deal, Tia Lessin. US, 2008, color, 90 min. NOT RATED

Show times subject to change. Go to AFI.com/Silver to view the complete schedule.

Co-presented by the AFI Silver Theatre and the National Building Museum. Special thanks to the AFI Silver Theatre for its collaboration, including director of programming Todd Hitchcock, and associate programmer Josh Gardner. For more information visit AFI.com/Silver.
 

Ticket Information:
Free screening. Tickets at the door, day of screening. AFI box office, located at 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Maryland (opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day). Please note that tickets are not available for purchase through the National Building Museum. Metro: Red Line to Silver Spring.

AFI Members who show their membership card will receive the member rate to National Building Museum exhibitions, including "Designing for Disaster".

Date:
Time: 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

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