* Post Film Q&A with filmmaker Sasha Wortzel *
A reimagining of Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s book, “The Everglades: River of Grass,” (1947), which changed the public’s understanding of it from worthless swamps to an essential source of freshwater.
In the wake of a hurricane, Douglas visits filmmaker Sasha Wortzel in a dream, catalyzing a prismatic journey across the Everglades with Miccosukee educator and activist Betty Osceola. We meet a mother taking on the polluting sugar industry; a two-spirit Miccosukee environmentalist; a mother-daughter team removing snakes wreaking havoc on the ecosystem; and a family who’ve fished there for six generations.
