Troubled Water - USC Documentary

Follow the journey of 3 USC Social Work Graduate Students as they make a documentary for change.  A documentary about the very thing we all need to live yet many people live without.  Join our journey of truth as we create awareness on an issue that kills more people than any other cause...water..contaminated water...troubled water. 

The White Lotus Flower
 hope, rebirth, change

Rises above the water.This is
 a symbol of the sun,of

creation and rebirth.

At night the flower closes

and sinks underwater,at dawn

it rises and opens again. 


                                                                                     ....a beautiful disaster production

"Lotus for Hope"
Film for Change


Give me hope like the white lotus flower

Clean water for everyone should flow like April showers
Across distant shores spreads cholera  diseases and more
Where children are dying and mothers are crying
Paints the picture of people fetching water is their art for surviving

It's curtain call, there's no encore, contaminated water  titles this horror 
Yet vision hope like the white lotus flower,
because clean water for everyone should flow like April showers

-Nikki Rowe

Suzanne Cheatham MSW- Film Director/Producer

"Awareness is the first step to change which is why this film is being made.  Spread the word about this issue as millions of kids are dying from waterborne diseases every year.  These diseases kill more people than anything else and is a preventable problem holding back the progress of many civilizations." SC

Join us at our Film Festival May 7th, 2011 2pm 

Location
University of Southern California @ SGM 123 in the "Mudd Hall

Suzanne is currently developing her Foundation that will focus on bringing awareness to various aspects of the “water crisis” through community engagement, re-development and policy change.

The i-support Foundation

Power in Numbers UnitingCauses

Mission

The i-support Foundation symbolizes empowering people to discover what they are passionate about and then to act through utilizing strength-based methods in a coalition group setting.
 The i-support Foundation is currently forming a Coalition made up of people with diverse strengths who work together uniting different causes in the name of 
Power in Numbers.

 The Coalition consists of; youth, schools, communities, and community-leaders who will work with artists, film-makers, musicians, writers, philanthropists, and corporations to identify and use their strengths, breadth of knowledge and experiences to utilize media and social enterprise to create awareness, and change both locally and internationally. 

VisionStrategy

 To create change through working with various communities to build artistic and innovative social enterprise partnerships to raise funds and increase awareness on important social issues while supporting the analysis and development of effective and efficient implementation strategies, models, and policy frameworks to meet various community-based re-development goals.


CurrentStrategy
Focus on the "water crisis issue" first

Elizabeth Sarinana Film Crew/Cinematographer

"Inspired and Moved by this Issue" ES

Nikki Rowe - Film Crew/Cinematographer

"Down For the Cause" NR

Join Us At our Film Festival! Friday May 7th at 2pm

Troubled Water

Troubled Water 

Troubled water flows throughout my veins

Waterborne diseases like cholera, hepatitis,  and e. coli  are some causes for my pain

Quenching my thirst for water to survive, I have been denied

Because drinkable water for the poor does not stream towards our side

Thousands of years we have survived by the access to our human right

Today access comes with a cost, but my pennies are just far too tight

Thousands of children are dying every month for reasons similar to my pain

For the very own price that far too many flushes down the drain

My sorrows, darkens the hope for tomorrow, because troubled water flows throughout my veins

Written by Nikki Rowe

Dramatization Shoot at Douglas Park and Kenter Canyon

This is a shot from our "What if?" dramatization that is weaved throughout our film.

We filmed at Douglas Park with a group of dancer's from Suzanne's (Director) studio where she teaches at MNR Dance Factory.  We filmed a "what if" scene pertaining to "what if it was an American reality that our children died from the simple act of drinking water?"  Crew Cinematographer Elizabeth Sarinana is getting a  great overhead shot of the "kid action".

Here is our "hero" Scarlett

Elizabeth (Cinematographer left), Suzanne (Director right)

Scarlett (center), Zoie "production assistant" (bottom right, Suzanne's daughter)