Greenwich Entertainment Takes NA Rights To Director Jennifer Peedom’s ‘River,’ Environmental-Themed Documentary Narrated By Willem Dafoe

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EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Jennifer Peedom’s visually stunning documentary River, “a profound cinematic and musical reflection on how rivers have shaped both the planet’s elaborate landscapes and all human existence.” Greenwich plans to release the film in theaters on April 21, ahead of Earth Day on April 22.

River is a sequel to Peedom’s 2017 documentary Mountain – also a Greenwich release – and reunites the director with her creative collaborators on that earlier film, including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, narrator Willem Dafoe and writer Robert Macfarlane. “Throughout history, rivers have shaped our landscapes and our civilizations; flowed through our cultures and dreams,” notes a description of the documentary. “River takes the audience through space and time; spanning six continents, drawing on extraordinary cinematography, the film shows rivers on scales and from perspectives never seen before.

Its union of image, music and poetic script create a dreamlike film that honors the wildness of rivers, but also recognizes their vulnerability in the face of increased human demands.” In a statement, Greenwich co-president Ed Arentz observed, “River is a remarkable experience: a rare opportunity to step back from the rush of daily life and hectic entertainments and enter into a meditative kind of cinema that focuses exclusively on imagery of our planet’s flowing water systems allowing one to relish their astounding beauty and viscerally understand our increasingly dangerous interventions.” Peedom commented on those interventions in an interview with Deadline in conjunction with River‘s world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last September. “We have now reached a