2014 CNEX 國際華人紀錄片影展

卡崔娜紀事 Trouble the Water

美國 USA / 2008 / 96 min / 導演 Director：Tia LESSIN & Carl DEAL

2009 奧斯卡最佳紀錄片 入圍 

2008 日舞影展 評審團大獎

信義威秀10/31,11:00   信義威秀11/3,13:00

「警方無法在這種天候出勤救援。」「那我只能等死嗎？」「是。」一段卡崔娜颶風期間的求救電話，披露美國官方在救災態度上的無能與荒謬，這部由《華氏911》製片再度震驚世界的話題紀錄片，以金柏莉羅伯茲夫婦所拍攝的DV影像，首度帶觀眾走進風災當下最怵目驚心的時刻。

風雨無情；然而對於倖存的民眾來說，救災的無力感與失敗的重建政策，才是真正的苦難……

Nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary, Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. It's a redemptive tale of two self-described street hustlers who become heroes-two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.

The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall-twenty-four year old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers ROBERTS is turning her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. "It's going to be a day to remember," Kim declares. With no means to leave the city and equipped with just a few supplies and her hi 8 camera, she and her husband Scott tape their harrowing ordeal as the storm rages, the nearby levee breaches, and floodwaters fill their home and their community. Shortly after the levees fail, their battery dies.

Seamlessly weaving 15 minutes of this home movie footage shot the day before and the morning of the storm with archival news segments and verite footage shot over the next two years, directors Tia LESSIN and Carl DEAL tell a story of remarkable people surviving not only failed levees, bungling bureaucrats and armed soldiers, but also their own past.