A Q&A with film director Sasha Wortzel will follow the screening.

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’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, catalyzing a prismatic journey across the Everglades with Miccosukee educator and activist Betty Osceola. 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. Interweaving Douglas’s writing, personal narration, present-day verité, and archival footage, RIVER OF GRASS reveals how this country’s origin story haunts and inextricably shapes contemporary American life, while asking how we might weather coming storms better together.

The film is a critically acclaimed 2025 documentary. Winner of the prestigious Pare Lorentz Award at the 2025 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards, which recognizes high-level filmmaking and environmental advocacy. The film also won the 2025 Mead Audience Award and the Florida Filmmaker Award at the Tallahassee Film Festival.

“Winking and wondrous… bewitching. This isn't a passive narrative.”

Robert Daniels (RogerEbert.com)

“A vivid love letter to the land and a call for its protection.”

Pat Mullen (POV Magazine)

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