Created by and co-produced with Charlotte Sawyer at Eighty Sita Productions.

This documentary film series offers a unique and much-needed perspective within environmental storytelling, one that is currently underrepresented. At a time when audiences are often met with narratives of loss, urgency, and impending catastrophe, this series shifts the lens towards love, imagination, and reconnection. It reframes environmental activism not as something driven solely by fear or sacrifice, but as an act of joy, creativity, and deep emotional belonging.

Capturing the love and connection to nature found among river campaigners around the world, the series presents a fresh and approachable way into environmental stories for a wide range of audiences, including those who may feel alienated, overwhelmed, or fatigued by traditional climate narratives. These are films that welcome people in, rather than confront them, offering intimacy, humour, and beauty as entry points to urgent global issues.

The series comprises feature-length documentaries united by a hopeful, contemporary visual language and a clear, accessible tone. Rather than focusing on crisis alone, we observe the moments between the moments, following ordinary people doing extraordinary, creative, and often whimsical things to protect the rivers they love. Across the series, campaigners conjure river spirit entities, invent new rituals, and stage playful interventions. We meet a young bride who symbolically marries a river, and communities reimagining how to live in relationship with water.

At its heart, this series explores how, in an increasingly modern and disconnected world, people are searching for their way back to nature, not through nostalgia, but through new myths, acts of care, and collective imagination. By weaving together the personal and the political, the poetic and the practical, the films reveal how creativity, joy, and intimacy can be powerful tools for environmental change.