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Film Info
2008
96 mins
Color
USA
In English
35mm
Sound: SR/SRD
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Tia Lessin
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal are the producers and directors of 2009 Academy Award ® nominated feature documentary Trouble the Water, winner of the Gotham Independent Film Award and the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. Tia Lessin was also a producer of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, winner of the Palme d'Or, and of Academy Award ®-winning Bowling for Columbine.
Tia received the Sidney Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism.for her documentary short Behind the Labels. She line produced Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home: Bob Dylan and was associate producer of Charles Guggenheim’s Oscar-nominated film Shadows of Hate.
In television, Tia’s work as producer of the series The Awful Truth earned her two Emmy nominations and one arrest.
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’Oréal Paris and Women in Film.
Carl Deal
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 graduated from Columbia University's School of Journalism, which awarded him the Sander Social Justice Prize. He has authored investigative reports for Greenpeace, Amnesty International and Public Citizen.
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.
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