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Holy (Un)Holy River
Specs: USA | 2016 | 60m
Filmmakers: Jake Norton & Pete McBride
Themes: river, pollution
HOLY (UN)HOLY RIVER is the winner of our Best Film award this year and will have it's Toronto Premiere at the Opening Night of Water Docs 2018. Join us to see this film at our "Award Winners" screening on Thursday, April 12th at 6:00 pm.
Holy (Un)Holy River (2016, USA)
HOLY (UN)HOLY RIVER follows the world’s most revered and reviled river, the great Ganges River of India. The film’s directors, Jake Norton and Pete McBride, followed the river source-to-sea in 2013, documenting its intense beauty and struggles. The film tells the story of the River and all its dichotomies and complexities; a river that is revered by a billion people, depended upon by 500 million, and is at once a source of life and inspiration as well as death, pollution, and tragedy.
Holy (Un)Holy River follows the world’s most revered and reviled river, the great Ganges River of India. The film’s directors, Jake Norton and Pete McBride, followed the river source-to-sea in 2013, documenting its intense beauty and struggles. The film tells the story of the River and all its dichotomies and complexities; a river that is revered by a billion people, depended upon by 500 million, and is at once a source of life and inspiration as well as death, pollution, and tragedy.
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