River of Grass

Experimental Documentary New Release!

River of Grass is a present-day reimagining of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated book, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), which forever changed the public understanding of the region from a worthless swamp to an essential source of freshwater, enabling the ecosystem to endure, however barely, today. In the wake of a hurricane, Stoneman Douglas visits filmmaker Sasha Wortzel in a dream, catalyzing a prismatic journey across the Everglades with Miccosukee educator and activist Betty Osceola. Interweaving Douglas’s writing, personal narration, present-day verité, and archival footage, River of Grass reveals how this country’s origin story haunts and shapes contemporary American life, while asking how we might weather coming storms better together.