Acclaimed Actor, Producer
and Social Activist

Danny Glover will present the following sessions:

Director(s): Tia Lessin, Carl Deal

Executive Producers:
Danny Glover, Joslyn Barnes

How is it that Hurricane Katrina managed to revolutionize American attitudes about the environment, but somehow the very people most devastated by the storm have become refugees in their own country, and their experiences have been all but forgotten?

In Trouble the Water, this voiceless population becomes vibrantly human as documentarians Tia Lessin and Carl Deal engage with native New Orleans filmmaker and musician Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband, Scott, to create a powerful, partly autobiographical survival story that reflects many of the lives of the people of New Orleans. Kimberly's chilling home footage of her hometown before, during, and after the storm provides a petrifying account that essentially rewrites most of the media coverage of the disaster. Broadcast news stories of rampant looting are transformed into ingeniously heroic tales of survival, while recent stories of a thriving recovery in New Orleans are exposed as a false bill of goods sold on the backs of the disenfranchised.

Trouble the Water makes unapologetically clear that Hurricane Katrina rages on as an unnatural disaster of governmental and journalistic neglect. What is also truly amazing is that the levee protecting Kimberly's humanity against this devastating storm remains firmly grounded in her deep-rooted love for New Orleans, her family, and her art, and her enduring faith in her fellow human beings.   www.troublethewaterfilm.com   For more information contact Kaz at mailto:kaz@igc.org

Joslyn Barnes, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Louverture Films, LLC—New York, New York

Danny Glover, Actor, Honorary Ph.D., San Francisco State University, also affiliated with numerous organizations including TransAfrica Forum (chair of the Board) and Vanguard Foundation—San Francisco, California

“The same people who tried to kill me in 1973 are the same people who are here today, trying to destroy me. I mean it literally. I mean there were people from the forces of the San Francisco Police Department who participated in harassment, torture and my interrogation in 1973...none of these people have ever been brought to trial. None of these people have ever been charged with anything.” ---—John Bowman, former Black Panther (now deceased)
Four of the participants in this video, Ray Boudreaux, Richard Brown, Hank Jones, and Harold Taylor were arrested on January 23, 2007 on charges stemming from the shooting of a police officer in 1971. These same charges were thrown out over 30 years ago because of the torture used to extract false statements. Another participant in the video, John Bowman, would have been charged except for his untimely passing in December 2006.
Five other Black activists are also charged, with four in custody―Richard O’Neal and Francisco Torres have been arrested, Jalil Muntaqim and Herman Bell have been political prisoners for over 30 years, and Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth is still being sought. The sweeping conspiracy charges appear to be aimed at rewriting history in an attempt to brand the Black Panther Party for Self Defense―and much of the Black Liberation Movement from 1968 to 1973―as “terrorist.”
Torture and Human Rights, 2008

Danny Glover, Actor, Honorary Ph.D., San Francisco State University, also affiliated with numerous organizations including TransAfrica Forum (chair of the Board) and Vanguard Foundation—San Francisco, California

Danny Glover Produces and Stars in New Film Putting the World Bank and IMF on Trial in Africa
Joslyn Barnes, Co-executive Producer

Actor and activist Danny Glover presents his new film "Bamako." It is a fictional film set in Mali, the plot revolves around a trial that pits the people of Bamako against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Joslyn Barnes, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Louverture Films, LLC—New York, New York

Danny Glover, Actor, Honorary Ph.D., San Francisco State University, also affiliated with numerous organizations including TransAfrica Forum (chair of the Board) and Vanguard Foundation—San Francisco, California