2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Down by the Riverside

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE // DIRECTORS IN ATTENDANCE*
*Special live performance by Jen Sygit*

Documentary Environment
  • Down by the Riverside
  • Down by the Riverside
  • Somewhere Outside Lemmings

Down by the Riverside

In the summer of 1969, the world-renowned folk musician Pete Seeger built a boat and launched a movement. An intimate portrait of Pete, his spouse Toshi, and the participatory grassroots community they anchored in the Hudson Valley for over forty years, Down by the Riverside tells the story of how an unconventional campaign to save the polluted Hudson River prompted a green revolution. As the globe confronts a seemingly insurmountable environmental crisis, this film is a parable for our time, offering a message of hope for the next generation that reveals the power of creativity to revive a dying planet.

  • DIRECTOR
    Jodie Childers & Dan Messina
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    85 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States
Pre-Feature Short: A Michigan Frontrunner

Somewhere Outside Lemmings

In a cold afternoon in 1870’s Michigan, a bounty hunter happens to run into an old acquaintance outside of town, and as the conversation unfolds, the history of their relationship is slowly revealed, and the future of it is swiftly determined.

  • DIRECTOR
    Kirk Yoshonis
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    14 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States
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