Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s documentary Trouble the Water takes a uniquely first-hand look at Hurricane Katrina. Aspiring rap musician Kimberly Rivers Roberts used her newly purchased video camera to document the disaster as it unfolded. These tapes formed the foundation for Lessin and Deal’s exploration of this “unnatural disaster of governmental and journalistic neglect.” In this interview Tia Lessin talks about how individuals can tell a story more effectively than mainstream media, and how the film transcends the disaster.
Ashley Sabin co-directed a new documentary shot in cinema verité style (no narration, no interviews) to get beyond the helicopter footage of hurricane Katrina. In Kamp Katrina, they take their cameras into a backyard-turned-refugee-camp on the ground. Paul talks with Sabin about the film in a restaurant at SXSW 2007.
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