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Tia Lessin(I)

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An aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband, armed with a video camera, show what survival is all about when they are trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters, and seize a chance for a new beginning.
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Trouble the Water (2008)
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Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Tia Lessin is the director and producer, with Carl Deal, of Citizen Koch and Trouble the Water--winner of the 2008 Gotham Independent Film Award and the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize. She was a co-producer of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, winner of the Palme d'Or, Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine, and Capitalism: A Love Story.

In television, Tia line produced Martin Scorsese's Emmy and Grammy-winning film No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. She directed and produced Behind the Labels for which she received the Sidney Hillman Award for Broadcast Journalism. Her work as producer of the Bravo series The Awful Truth earned her two Emmy nominations, one arrest and a lifetime ban from Disney World.

Tia is the recipient of the L'Oréal Paris/Women in Film's Women of Worth Vision Award, the Harry Chapin Media Award for Film, and the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Human Rights Award. Her work has been supported by the Creative Capital Foundation, Ford Foundation's JustFilms, the Open Society Institute, the Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund, The Bertha Foundation and The Fledgling Fund.
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 13 wins & 16 nominations total

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    Known for

    Trouble the Water (2008)
    Trouble the Water
    7.3
    • Producer
    • 2008
    The Janes (2022)
    The Janes
    7.6
    • Director
    • 2022
    Citizen Koch (2013)
    Citizen Koch
    6.7
    • Producer
    • 2013
    The Awful Truth (1999)
    The Awful Truth
    6.9
    TV Series
    • Producer

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    Producer



    • Steal This Story, Please!
      • executive producer
      • Completed
      • 2025



    • Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (2019)
      Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
      7.0
      • consulting producer
      • 2019
    • Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
      Fahrenheit 11/9
      7.2
      • executive producer
      • 2018
    • Michael Moore in TrumpLand (2016)
      Michael Moore in TrumpLand
      5.8
      • executive producer
      • 2016
    • Where to Invade Next (2015)
      Where to Invade Next
      7.5
      • producer
      • 2015
    • Citizen Koch (2013)
      Citizen Koch
      6.7
      • producer
      • 2013
    • George Harrison in George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
      George Harrison: Living in the Material World
      8.1
      • consulting producer
      • 2011
    • Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
      Capitalism: A Love Story
      7.4
      • co-producer
      • 2009
    • Trouble the Water (2008)
      Trouble the Water
      7.3
      • producer
      • 2008
    • Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who (2007)
      Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who
      8.2
      • consulting producer
      • 2007
    • American Masters (1985)
      American Masters
      8.2
      TV Series
      • line producer
      • 2005
    • Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
      Fahrenheit 9/11
      7.5
      • supervising producer
      • 2004
    • Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine (2002)
      Bowling for Columbine
      8.0
      • supervising producer
      • 2002
    • Behind the Labels (2001)
      Behind the Labels
      7.7
      • producer
      • 2001
    • The Awful Truth (1999)
      The Awful Truth
      6.9
      TV Series
      • supervising producer
      • senior producer
      • 1999–2000
    • Surviving the Bottom Line
      TV Movie
      • field producer
      • 1998

    Additional Crew



    • George Harrison in George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
      George Harrison: Living in the Material World
      8.1
      • consultant: executive producer
      • 2011
    • Our School (2011)
      Our School
      8.1
      • special advisor
      • 2011
    • TV Nation (1994)
      TV Nation
      6.5
      TV Series
      • researcher
      • 1995
    • David Ogden Stiers, David McCullough, and Michael Murphy in American Experience (1988)
      American Experience
      8.6
      TV Series
      • additional film researcher
      • 1994

    Director



    • The Janes (2022)
      The Janes
      7.6
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Citizen Koch (2013)
      Citizen Koch
      6.7
      • Director
      • 2013
    • Trouble the Water (2008)
      Trouble the Water
      7.3
      • Director
      • 2008
    • Behind the Labels (2001)
      Behind the Labels
      7.7
      • Director
      • 2001

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    Trouble the Water
    Trouble the Water
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