Quote:
"I was working on poetry about the river when Alicia Smith from the National Film Board (NFB) approached me about doing something. We weren't sure what, but it was going to be something like poetry, but not poetry, and like a documentary but different. She was interested in the story of my [missing] brother—but I didn't want to tell that story in isolation when devastatingly, stories like that happen way too often. We were inspired by the work of Drag the Red and the connections with the river kept coming up. We wanted to show the river as the beautiful body of water it is, so we got Erika [MacPherson] on board because she makes beautiful films."
-- Katherena Vermette

Source:
Footman, Akeesha. "'this river' documentary searches for missing and murdered Indigenous women & girls." Interview with Katherena Vermette, Erika MacPherson. Muskrat Magazine, August 4, 2016.