River Mile 21
Twenty-one miles of the river at night.
A 12-minute documentary about the people who work the river after dark, shot over six nights from a borrowed boat.
We started it between wedding seasons and kept going for six nights.
The crew was four people and one borrowed boat. Sound was recorded on the water and in the tug cabins.
It played at Congress Street Short Film Night and won the audience award at Lowland Documentary Days.
12 min
Documentary, 6 nights
Crew
Anouk Treadwell, Caleb Oduya, Soraya Blum, Wren Takahashi
Stills
Stills from the film
Night two, the tug
Dawn at mile 21
6
Nights
4
Crew
12 min
Film
Nobody had asked us about the night shift before.
Earl Batiste, tug captain
