River’s End: California’s Latest Water War

The IWFF Presents series returns to the Roxy with a screening of River’s End directed by Jacob Morrison. This impressive film is the winner of IWFF’s 2021 Best Sustainable Planet Program award as well as the People’s Choice and Jury award winner at the 2021 Wild and Scenic Film Festival.
“River’s End” explores the global water crisis, using California as a microcosm. It shows how water politics that led to the draining of the Owens Valley by Los Angeles, made famous by the film Chinatown, continue to this day among ongoing efforts to take even more water from Northern California's San Francisco Bay estuary. This time, the water grab is at the hands of industrial agriculture and its powerful corporate investors.