Deschutes Public Library

The River and the Wall

eng

videorecording

The River and the Wall

Originally produced by Gravitas Ventures in 2019

109

THE RIVER AND THE WALL follows five friends on a 1,200 mile journey along the US-Mexico border from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico. Riding horses, bicycles, and paddling canoes, they travel along the Rio Grande and meet with landowners, border patrol agents, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, immigrants, wildlife biologists, and folks on either side of the Rio to better understand where a physical border wall would go and the impacts it would have. The immigrant stories of two of the characters are interwoven through the journey, humanizing the controversial topic of immigration, while they travel through a landscape that could soon crumble to a wall intended to keep them out. Told through stunning cinematography of landscapes and cultures rarely visited and often demonized, THE RIVER AND THE WALL takes viewers on an unforgettable border journey into the most controversial and talked about topic in the world today: the Border Wall. You will never look at the border the same again

live action