All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea

An evening screening of the documentary 'All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea', followed by an in-person Q&A. It was made by writer/director Jeanie Finlay, a Teessider, and features Joanna Scanlan alongside her at the talk. The film follows fisherman Stan Rennie, who has worked the same stretch of North-East England coastline where the river meets the sea for over fifty years, as his world is upended when a vast tide of poisoned crabs and lobsters washes ashore after a new development on that coast. Facing the ruin of his business and failing health, he becomes the unlikely figurehead of a grassroots campaign for the truth about the die-off, in a wry David and Goliath story about grief and finding power in community.