A River Below
ABOUT
A RIVER BELOW captures the Amazon in all its complexity as it examines the actions of environmental activists using the media in an age where truth is a relative term. The film follows a reality TV star and a renowned marine biologist as they each attempt to save the Amazon pink river dolphin from being hunted to extinction.
Mark Grieco is a director, cinematographer, and photographer. He is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow. For the last 15 years, he has traveled Latin America producing documentaries and photography. His first feature, MARMATO, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win 15 international awards, including the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival. It was distributed by Participant Media, Netflix, and Univision. His second feature, A RIVER BELOW premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival to critical acclaim and won the Environmental Doc Award at the Sheffield Documentary Festival and the Audience Award at the Zurich Film Festival. It was distributed by Netflix, Amazon, and Grasshopper Film. He is the winner of grants from the Sundance Institute, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Cinereach, Catapult Film Fund, Bertha Foundation, and the Candescent Award. He is currently in production on his next feature documentary.
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