The River

Caitlyn is a filmmaker born to a long line of Louisiana Cajuns and raised in the American South, who now splits her time between Brooklyn and New Orleans. She loves complex tales that break the mold and has crafted them in everything from six-second shorts to six-part series.

Caitlyn received a Primetime Emmy and an ACE Eddie Award for her editing on THE JINX, HBO’s Peabody Award-winning documentary series. Her recent documentary short THE DIAMOND was acquired by The New Yorker after premiering at the Camden International Film Festival where it won CIFF’s Vimeo Staff Pick Award. Her previous short films have screened at festivals around the world and taken home several jury awards along with a Vimeo Staff Picks' Best of the Year.

Other editing projects include the vérité documentary feature WHEN LAMBS BECOME LIONS, for which Caitlyn was awarded Best Editing at the Tribeca Festival and nominated for an IDA Documentary Award, as well as FX’s documentary series A WILDERNESS OF ERROR, from Marc Smerling (THE JINX) and Errol Morris.

THE RIVER is Caitlyn’s feature directorial debut.
www.caitlyngreene.com

Sara Archambault is an independent producer who champions films with bold, creative vision that center a practice of equity, care, and collaboration in their creation. Recent producing credits include the Indie Spirits-nominated RIOTSVILLE, USA;TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES; A DECENT HOME and RICHLAND. Her award-winning films have screened in festivals around the world and received support from Sundance Film Institute, Ford Foundation, SFFILM, Catapult Film Fund, IDA, Perspective Fund and the Democracy Fund, among others. Sara was a 2020 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, a 2013 Sundance Creative Producers Lab Fellow and was named the 2020 SF DocFest Vanguard Awardee. Sara’s professional experience includes her work as the Documentary Film Project Director at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, a research center examining the intersections of media, technology and democracy with a goal of improving the welfare of the global information ecosystem. She is an active member of the Documentary Producers Alliance and a board member of The Flaherty.
www.archandbowfilms.com

The Department of Motion Pictures is a filmmaker-driven documentary and fiction production company with a focus on ambitious, inventive, and emotionally resonant storytelling across features and series. Over the years, members of the DMP haveproduced BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, PATTI CAKE$, MONSTERS & MEN,WENDY, FAREWELL AMOR, GASOLINE RAINBOW, and a season of HIGH MAINTENANCE, as well as non-fiction work like WESTERN, 32 SOUNDS, A THOUSAND THOUGHTS, BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS, the documentary series PHILLY D.A. and the podcast OPERATOR. The DMP has premiered over a dozen films at the Sundance Film Festival in the last ten years, with work distributed by Searchlight Pictures, Neon, and Paramount, among many others. The company’s projects have won many of the film industry's most prestigious accolades, including a Peabody Award, six Sundance awards and four awards at Cannes, as well as nominations for the Oscars, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the Gothams. The Department of Motion Pictures is based in Brooklyn, NY, and New Orleans, LA.