Danny Glover Reveals the Katrina Tragedy in 'Trouble the Water'

The reality of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is graphically depicted in 'Trouble the Water,' nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and executive producer Danny Glover tells us about the "deeper tragedy" that goes beyond the physical catastrophe itself.

"There's another deeper tragedy [here], beyond the fact that the government didn't respond, beyond the fact that there were indifferent [reactions] about the people who were victimized," Danny tells us. "Beyond that is a much deeper historical dynamic about what has happened to these communities. Why are people in the situation that they are? Why do we have a community that doesn't have adequate transportation, adequate schools, adequate health care? Those are the larger questions."

'Trouble the Water' takes the real-life footage of New Orleans residents trapped in the rising waters of the 9th Ward after the levees break from the forces of Hurricane Katrina. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, a 24-year-old aspiring rap artist, and her husband Scott turn their new video camera on themselves and their neighbors, capturing their own heroic efforts and the greater tragedy of the directionless, bungling bureaucrats and armed soldiers around them.

"This is someone who captured what was happening in the moment in their lives," explains Danny. "Men and women who are ordinary who become extraordinary, who become heroic and whose lives are changed forever by the incident itself."

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