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Production
2023

The River

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Grantee

  • headshot of Caitlyn Greene wearing a black top
    Caitlyn Greene, Director
  • headshot of Sara Archambault wearing a dark gray top and blue jeans with red lipstick
    Sara Archambault, Producer
A nearly silhouetted silver-haired man stands on the bow of a boat, holding onto a rope above his head. Behind him is a cloudy dusk sky and an expanse of water.

About the Project

The River is a vivid, character-driven film about Louisiana’s complicated relationship with the Mississippi River.

Project Team

    headshot of Caitlyn Greene wearing a black top

    Caitlyn Greene

    Caitlyn is a filmmaker born to a long line of Louisiana Cajuns and raised in the American South, who now splits her time between Brooklyn and New Orleans. She loves complex tales that break the mold and has crafted them in everything from six-second shorts to six-part series.

    Caitlyn received a Primetime Emmy and an ACE Eddie Award for her editing on The Jinx, HBO’s Peabody Award-winning documentary series. Her recent documentary short, The Diamond, was acquired by The New Yorker after premiering at the Camden International Film Festival, where it won CIFF’s Vimeo Staff Pick Award. Her previous short films have screened at festivals around the world and taken home several jury awards along with a Vimeo Staff Picks’ Best of the Year.

    Other editing projects include the vérité documentary feature WHEN LAMBS BECOME LIONS, for which Caitlyn was awarded Best Editing at the Tribeca Festival and nominated for an IDA Documentary Award, as well as FX’s documentary series A Wilderness of Error from Marc Smerling (The Jinx) and Errol Morris.

    The River is Caitlyn’s feature directorial debut.

    www.caitlyngreene.com

    headshot of Sara Archambault wearing a dark gray top and blue jeans with red lipstick

    Sara Archambault

    Sara Archambault is a Creative Producer dedicated to artful and impactful nonfiction filmmaking. Sara champions risk-taking films with bold visions that center on a practice of equity, care, collaboration, and justice in their creation. Recent films include Riotsville, USA (Sundance, Magnolia Pictures); Truth or Consequences (Rotterdam, Sentient Art Films), A Decent Home (Denver, America Reframed), and the upcoming Richland. Sara's award-winning films have screened in festivals around the world and received support from Sundance Film Institute, SFFILM, Catapult Film Fund, IDA, Hot Docs Pitch Forum, and Film Independent, among others. Sara was a 2020 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, a 2013 Sundance Creative Producers Lab Fellow, and a 2020 SF DocFest Vanguard Awardee.