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...Just before Katrina hit New Orleans, Kim bought a video camera; she then used it to capture the damage and drama of the hurricane with a wit and painful insight beyond the gifts of Anderson Cooper. A week later she and her husband Scott Roberts were discovered by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, documentarians who had worked for Michael Moore. The resulting movie, Trouble the Water, is an endlessly moving, artlessly magnificent tribute to people the government didn't think worth saving...
...Lessin and Deal know that the best documentaries reveal politics through personalities. In the gritty, buoyant Kim they found a person who symbolized both the lower depths of urban life and the resilience, when faced with an impossible challenge, to rise to a level higher than flood tide. Maybe Kim, Scott and their crew were no angels before Katrina, but that doesn't matter--because in Trouble the Water, we see the lives of the saints...
...Kirkland: Steven M. Amis, Michael D. George, Ryan M. Geraghty, Samuel W. Lessin, Richard K. Mansfield, Griffin E. Schroeder, Joseph H. Weintraub, Jeffrey...
This cancellation doesn’t mean the other ideas won’t be tried, added Lessin, who has created his own organization devoted exclusively to organizing tournaments of this kind involving college students...
...There are a whole set of great college-oriented games for which there’s no national stage,” said Lessin. “How fun would it be to create national competitions for games we play on the sides...