FLOW: For Love Of Water
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary is an investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century: The world water crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question, "Can anyone really own water?"
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
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Credits
Director/Cinematographer: Irena Salina
Producer: Steven Starr
Co-Producers: Gill Holland, Yvette Tomlinson
Executive Producers: Stephen Nemeth, Caroleen Feeney, Lee Jaffe, Augusta Brown Holland, Brent Meikle, Cornalia Meikle, Hadley Meikle
Cinematographer: Pablo de Selva
Editors: Caitlin Dixon, Madeleine Gavin, Andrew Mondshein, A.C.E.
Composer: Christophe Julien
Running time: 84 min.
Website: www.flowthefilm.com
Article: Trouble the Water: 'FLOW' Documents a Diminishing Resource
Filmmaker Q&A: Meet the Filmmakers: Irena Salina--'FLOW', by Thomas White
About the Filmmakers
Born in France, IRENA SALINA started her career at 15 as a radio journalist in Paris, then worked in production in various capacities on numerous US films before writing and directing her first short, See You on Monday, sponsored by LifeTime Television for the Hamptons Film Festival. Her first film, Ghost Bird: The Life and Art of Judith Deim (2000), is an award-winning documentary that delves into the remarkable life of St. Louis-born artist Judith Deim. Ghost Bird was featured at many festivals, won Best Documentary at the 15th Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, the Presidents' Award at Mexico's prestigious Ajijic Film Festival, and is an Evergreen Audience Favorite on the Sundance Channel.
STEVEN STARR is the founder of the award-winning online creator platform Revver.com, previously managed KPFK-FM, largest community radio signal in the U.S., co-founded P2P pioneer Uprizer, user-generated platform LA.IndyMedia. Prior to that, writer/director and/or producer of various award-winning films such as Joey Breaker and Johnny Suede, co-creator/producer of The State for MTV/CBS, headed the New York film office for the William Morris Agency, working with clients such as Ang Lee, Tim Robbins, Larry David, Joseph Papp and Andy Warhol, and started off as a concert promoter for Bob Marley and the Wailers.