Trouble the Water directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin Tia Lessin’s path to her first feature documentary as a director started right here in Washington D.C., and carried her through production duties on some of the biggest profile documentary projects of the past decade, including three Michael Moore films (and his TV series), and Martin Scorcese’s Dylan doc, No Direction Home. With her co-director Carl Deal, she has created one of the definitive documents…

There has been no shortage of filmed analysis of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath during the last three years. And much of it has been quite good, particularly Spike Lee’s sprawling (and riveting) four-hour documentary, When the Levees Broke, which also screened at SILVERDOCS this year. But one doesn’t really realize what’s missing from these other films until watching Trouble the Water, Carl Deal and Tia Lessin’s take on the material, which is both harrowing…