Rivers of Film Festival: 4th September, Henley Town Hall, 19:00-21:30 - ASP - Association of Sustainability Practitioners

Film Festival – How Creativity affects Change

As the first day of the River Summit draws to a close, the evening opens into something different. The Rivers of Film Festival comes to Henley Town Hall, bringing rivers, aquatic ecosystems and their guardians to the screen.

James Murray-White is an artist and filmmaker whose work has taken him from his native Cambridgeshire chalk streams to curating the Rivers of Film Festival, which ran over two weeks across Cambridge city and county last autumn through the charity Cambridge Past Present and Future. As part of the festival, James commissioned ten short films exploring local rivers and waterways and the human connection with them.

This year those films have been touring venues across the UK and James is delighted to be bringing some of them to Henley this September as well as other critical pieces of media such as Dirty Business and In our Blood.

The screening will be followed by a cast and crew Q&A offering a rare chance to hear directly from the filmmakers, protagonists, journalists and actors about the stories behind the stories. We hope you will want to stay.

Beneath the Oars – a World Premiere in Henley

During the Friday in Henley Town Hall we are showing, for the first time, Beneath the Oars – a film created exclusively for the River Summit and Festival by underwater filmmaker Mark Barrow of Beneath British Waters.

Shot on the Thames at Henley, on St Patrick’s Stream and along the River Loddon, the film takes audiences beneath the surface of one of the most iconic stretches of river in the world.

The film also features an interview with Imogen Grant, Olympic gold medallist rower, connecting Henley’s world-famous rowing heritage with the river that makes it all possible. It will be shown again that evening at the Rivers of Film Festival from 7pm.

Watch the TRAILER HERE