The River Twice: New Feature Documentary About the Susquehanna River

Here is the trailer about the amazing new feature documentary by Meryl O'Connor.

Biography

  Meryl OʼConnor has been everything from a clown in Los Angeles to a corporate art director in the high rises of Manhattan to a muralist in Chiapas to a bike messenger in India. She has studied painting in Florence, Italy and attended scholarship summer intensive art programs at Yale, The Art Institute of Chicago and Cal Arts. She received her BA in studio art from NYU in 2004. Upon graduation, she started an art collective with friends in Brooklyn that focused on interactive projects seeking to create spontaneous communities through art and adventure. Her passion for both activism and art making through collaboration and storytelling eventually led her into filmmaking. She graduated from UCLAʼs MFA film production program in 2012, making both documentary and narrative films. Her work has been supported by the Mary Pickford Foundation, the Sony- Streisand fund in recognition of women filmmakers the Jim Morrison fund and the Hollywood Foreign Press. Her short films have played in various international film festivals, including Cannes.

Websites
 meryloconnor.com
www.therivertwice.com

You can help Meryl launch this very important and entertaining documentary. She needs a little financial assistance to get it out in August. Click here to donate.  I have met Meryl, and I know she would appreciate our help.  You will love this film!

 

In the film, Carol Manuel shows family pictures in French Azilum, Bradford County.

Rafters Paddling Down the Susquehanna, Listening To Local Stories

Film crew ties up along the Susquehanna River

I spent about four hours with these delightful, thoughtful, creative, and intelligent women last week in French Azilum, PA.  The feature length film "The River Twice" will come out in about a year.  Watch for it! Here's the trailer (filmed during their 2010 river adventure). LINK

Read this article from the Rocket-Courier:  LINK

Meryl O'Connor, Dagmar Weaver-Madsen, and Cecily Anderson are an impressive group.  They are great listeners, interested in stories about living on the Susquehanna River.  I wish them the very best in making this feature film.  They are still on the river until July 4th.

Morning on the river

Good luck to the crew!