«Trouble the Water» with directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

On Saturday, October 10, the American Center will welcome its first guests from the American Film Festival. Documentary directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal will be showing their film “Trouble the Water,” about Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The film showing will be followed by a discussion with the directors. Tia Lessin received the Sidney Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism for her documentary short Behind the Labels. Tia is a Creative Capital grantee, a Sundance Institute Fellow, an Open Society Institute Katrina Media Fellow, and was awarded the Women of Worth Vision Award by L'Oreal Paris and Women in Film. Carl Deal was the Archival Producer for Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, and John Pilger's recent The War on Democracy, and has contributed to many other documentaries on television and in the cinema, including Sundance favorites God Grew Tired of Us and My Kid Could Paint That. He previously worked as an international news producer and has reported from natural disasters and conflict zones throughout the U.S., Latin America, and in Iraq. Carl is a Sundance Institute Fellow and received the 2005 FOCAL International/ Associated Press Library Award for best use of footage in a feature film. He was a juror in the US feature documentary competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. This is the only Amfest film that will be shown at the American Center, so don’t miss your opportunity to see this great documentary and speak with its directors!