Louis Vuitton Hawaii International FIlm Festival 2008

TROUBLE THE WATER opens the day before Katrina makes landfall. Kimberly Rivers Roberts is turning her video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors. "It’s going to be a day to remember," Kim says excitedly into her new camera as the storm is brewing. It's her first time shooting video and it's rough, jumpy but dense with reality. Kim's playful homegrown newscast tone grinds against the audience's knowledge that hell is just hours away. When the hurricane begins to rage and the flood waters fill their world and the screen, Kim and her husband Scott continue to film, documenting their harrowing voyage to higher ground and dramatic rescues of friends and neighbors. This film is 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.