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The Seattle International Film Festival features two documentaries this week that will be of interest to New Orleanians. The first one, which shows tomorrow and Friday, is Trouble the Water. Here's what SIFF had to say about it:

Skillfully interweaving ground-level footage of Katrina shot by New Orleanian Kimberly Roberts with the directors’ own footage of the ongoing efforts of Roberts and her husband to untangle FEMA red tape and rebuild their lives in Memphis, Trouble the Water shines on an individual journey that illuminates a tragedy that, on its actual scale, threatens to overwhelm our capacity to process it.

SIFF says Executive Producer Danny Glover is supposed to attend both screenings.

The other documentary that caught my eye isn't about New Orleans, but about Mardi Gras culture in Mobile, Alabama. It's called The Order of Myths and it looks fascinating. From the SIFF website:

Margaret Brown walks the bold line of segregation with her documentary he Order of Myths. Set in Mobile, Alabama, proud home of the world’s oldest Mardi Gras celebration, the film takes its title from one of the secret societies that exist to fuel the pre-Lenten celebrations. Divided by race, the town has two separate but equal Carnival coronations and parades. But are the celebrations really equal?

It's showing only once — tomorrow night at 9:30 at Harvard Exit. I'll try to write about one or both for those of you who aren't able to see these films.