January
21
Sundance Watch: Trouble the Water Star Debuts Movie, Then Has Baby
Trouble the Water star Kim Roberts made it to Park City, Utah to attend the launch of Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's doc, which features her extraordinary homevideo account of surviving Hurricane Katrina in the 9th Ward of New Orleans. She and her husband Scott helped to save some 25 people when they realized that no one was going to help them. After the film played to rousing emotional response Sunday morning at Park City's Library Center, during the Q & A the nine-months pregnant Roberts told the crowd, "I was determined to get here even if I had a baby in Utah." At 12:47 AM, the film's co-producer T. Woody Richman got the call to ferry Roberts and husband Scott down the mountain to a Salt Lake City hospital. Roberts gave birth on Monday, January 21, at 6:14 AM. The parents named their healthy 7 pound 1 ounce baby girl Skyy Kaylen Rivers Roberts.
"I drew upon my upbringing in New England to navigate the snowy streets," said Richman, who was at the wheel. Kim, Scott, Scott's sister Dede (a nurse) and cousin Bobby Coleman rode in the car, with Richman making great time (about a half hour). "We arrived just in time," Richman said. Filmmakers Lessin and Deal followed in the car behind. "I guess Skyy wanted to be born in Utah as part of the whole Sundance thing. And on Martin Luther King Day too," Richman said.
[with reporting by Tatiana Siegel]
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I saw Trouble the Water today at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta and WOW what a movie!!!!! I laughed, I cried, and I was inspired all at once. What a wonderful job. It is truely amazing how God works. Kim Rivers-Roberts seemed to start filming the Hurricane for the fun of it and turned out to be a moving documentation of the realities of what really happened in the N.O.
I was hoping to see the Stars of the movie at the festival but I was out of luck. I am so happy your child is healthy and your album is out. The rap you did in the movie was so good and on time to what you went through. Trust I am on the hunt for the CD. The movie showed me that if you put God in whatever you do, you can overcome all obsticles. I look foward to hearing more of your music. And again a big Congrats to your addition to your family.
Posted by: Trina | July 27, 2008 at 08:47 PM
I saw Trouble the Water today at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta and WOW what a movie!!!!! I laughed, I cried, and I was inspired all at once. What a wonderful job. It is truely amazing how God works. Kim Rivers-Roberts seemed to start filming the Hurricane for the fun of it and turned out to be a moving documentation of the realities of what really happened in the N.O.
I was hoping to see the Stars of the movie at the festival but I was out of luck. I am so happy your child is healthy and your album is out. The rap you did in the movie was so good and on time to what you went through. Trust I am on the hunt for the CD. The movie showed me that if you put God in whatever you do, you can overcome all obsticles. I look foward to hearing more of your music. And again a big Congrats to your addition to your family.
Posted by: Trina | July 27, 2008 at 08:47 PM