One World Premiere, and Then Another
Chances are nobody is having a more memorable Sundance Film Festival than Kimberly Rivers Roberts.
Roberts and her husband Scott are the central figures in Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's "Trouble the Water," a gripping documentary about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The film's centerpiece is the New Orleans couple's home-video footage of the floodwaters swamping their Lower Ninth Ward house during the storm.
Despite being eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their first child, Kim made the journey with Scott from New Orleans for the film's Sunday morning premiere at Park City's Library Theatre. Although she was due to give birth Jan. 30, her doctor had given her the OK to fly. "We just had to come to Utah," a beaming Kim told the audience after a standing ovation.
Maybe all that excitement sped up her birth cycle, because Kim went into labor late Sunday night. The film's editor, T. Woody Richman, loaded her and Scott into a minivan about 12:50 a.m. and began the treacherous drive down Parley's Canyon through a snowstorm. Lessin and Deal, the film's co-directors, followed in another vehicle.
"It was an honor to drive her down that hill," said Richman, who shrugged off the snowy conditions. "Those two went through Katrina. A drive through the snow is no big deal."
On the way down, Scott Roberts comforted his wife during her contractions. Thanks to Richman's GPs device, the convoy reached University Hospital by 1:20 a.m. Kim was in the delivery room within minutes.
At 6:14 a.m. Monday, Kim gave birth to a healthy 7 pound, 1 ounce girl, Skyy Kaylen Roberts. The new mom was half a continent away from her home, her hospital and her doctor, but maybe the date was fitting: It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The Roberts had originally planned to return to New Orleans today. Now they're at Sundance, or at least in Salt Lake City, for the rest of the week. Said Lessin, who talked to Kim at the hospital, "She's happy to have a Utah baby."
--Brandon Griggs
Roberts and her husband Scott are the central figures in Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's "Trouble the Water," a gripping documentary about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The film's centerpiece is the New Orleans couple's home-video footage of the floodwaters swamping their Lower Ninth Ward house during the storm.
Despite being eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their first child, Kim made the journey with Scott from New Orleans for the film's Sunday morning premiere at Park City's Library Theatre. Although she was due to give birth Jan. 30, her doctor had given her the OK to fly. "We just had to come to Utah," a beaming Kim told the audience after a standing ovation.
Maybe all that excitement sped up her birth cycle, because Kim went into labor late Sunday night. The film's editor, T. Woody Richman, loaded her and Scott into a minivan about 12:50 a.m. and began the treacherous drive down Parley's Canyon through a snowstorm. Lessin and Deal, the film's co-directors, followed in another vehicle.
"It was an honor to drive her down that hill," said Richman, who shrugged off the snowy conditions. "Those two went through Katrina. A drive through the snow is no big deal."
On the way down, Scott Roberts comforted his wife during her contractions. Thanks to Richman's GPs device, the convoy reached University Hospital by 1:20 a.m. Kim was in the delivery room within minutes.
At 6:14 a.m. Monday, Kim gave birth to a healthy 7 pound, 1 ounce girl, Skyy Kaylen Roberts. The new mom was half a continent away from her home, her hospital and her doctor, but maybe the date was fitting: It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The Roberts had originally planned to return to New Orleans today. Now they're at Sundance, or at least in Salt Lake City, for the rest of the week. Said Lessin, who talked to Kim at the hospital, "She's happy to have a Utah baby."
--Brandon Griggs
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