Available to stream: June 5, 2024 12:00 am - June 30, 2024 12:00 am UTC

River’s End

Do you know where your water comes from?
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Using California as a microcosm

River’s End explores the global water crises.

It draws the parallel between the draining of the Owens Valley by LA, made famous by CHINATOWN, and what is happening in real-time in Northern California’s Bay-Delta.

Except for this time,

The water grab is at the hands of Big Agriculture.

River’s End implores viewers to learn where their water comes from so that we can save our rivers and the ecosystems and communities that depend upon them.

Alyssa Fedele and Zachary Fink

Alyssa Fedele is an Emmy Award winning documentary film director of The Rescue List and her work has appeared on National Geographic channel PBS, and GTE.

Alyssa has a degree in anthropology and an MA in Visual Anthropology. 

​​Zachary Fink is an Emmy Award winning documentary film director and stenographer. 

He shot and co-directed The Rescue List. Zachary received his MA in cultural anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a focus in ethnographic film making.

He also holds an MFA in film production from California institute of arts. 

Dr. Robert Y. Chang, PhD 

is part of the Programming & Production team at American Documentary and curates three independent documentary series broadcast nationally on public television:

POV, POV Shorts, and America ReFramed. Dr. Chang received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology at NYU centering on media in order to highlight how cosmopolitan, immigrant, and religious identities are crafted in secular multicultural societies. 

Live virtual Q&A

With Sierra Club representatives as well as River’s End filmmakers, Jacob Morrison and Sam Furiewith Sierra Club representatives.

Question - 1

River’s End explores the global water crisis, using California as a microcosm. It shows how water politics that led to the draining of the Owens Valley by Los Angeles, made famous by the film Chinatown, continue to this

Question - 2

River’s End explores the global water crisis, using California as a microcosm. It shows how water politics that led to the draining of the Owens Valley by Los Angeles, made famous by the film Chinatown, continue to this day in ongoing efforts to take ever more water from Northern California’s San Francisco Bay estuary. Except this time, the water grab is at the hands of industrial agriculture and its powerful corporate investors.

Question - 3

River’s End explores the global water crisis, using California as a microcosm. It shows how water politics that led to the draining of the Owens Valley by Los Angeles, made famous by the film Chinatown, continue to this day in ongoing efforts to take ever more water from Northern California’s San Francisco Bay estuary. Except for this time, the water grab is at the hands of industrial agriculture and its powerful corporate investors. River’s End inspires viewers to learn where their water comes from so that we can save our rivers and the ecosystems and communities that depend upon them.

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