2009 Academy Award Nominee
A free screening and discussion with directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, and Brian Nobles, a featured subject of the film. Moderated by Dale P. Andrews, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology in the Boston University School of Theology.
From the film’s Web site: “Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Trouble the Water is directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. The film tells the story of an aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband, trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters, who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. It’s 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.”
During the Q&A, moderator Dale P. Andrews will explore the question of the film’s portrayal of African American religion. How does religion function in this African American community? How does it serve to frame the experience of Hurricane Katrina? And why did the directors choose to feature their subjects’ faith so prominently in a film that, on the surface, is about the social and political implications of this disaster?
Co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professorship of the Core Curriculum, the Center for Practical Theology, Marsh Chapel, and the School of Theology at Boston University.
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