River of Grass

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Wortzel, Sasha, film director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglas, Marjory Stoneman. Everglades.

Douglas, Marjory Stoneman.

Genre:

Documentary films

Feature films

Nonfiction films

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

Projectr

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] [Projectr] 2025

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

RIVER OF GRASS is a present-day reimagining of Marjory Stoneman Douglas's groundbreaking book, "The Everglades: River of Grass," (1947), which transformed the public's understanding of the area from worthless swamps to an essential source of freshwater, enabling the ecosystem to endure, just barely, today. In the wake of a hurricane, Douglas visits filmmaker Sasha Wortzel in a dream and catalyzes a prismatic study of a wilderness that is home to a rich history and a site of resistance in the face of climate collapse. Wortzel reads Douglas's book and joins prayer walks through the Everglades with Miccosukee educator Betty Osceola, transporting the audience through the watershed past and present. We meet a mother taking on the polluting sugar industry; a two-spirit Miccosukee environmentalist and poet; a mother-daughter team removing snakes wreaking havoc on the ecosystem; and a family who have fished in the Everglades for six generations. River of Grass is an ode to the Florida Everglades, past and present, told through the prescient writings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and those who call the region home. After a hurricane, Douglas appears in a dream, guiding filmmaker Sasha Wortzel into a layered exploration of the Everglades as ecosystem, history, and site of resistance amid climate collapse through encounters with Indigenous educators, activists, and multigenerational residents

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