How far would you go to help someone?
When a young First Nations client dies in police custody, free-spirited social worker Stevie (Astrid Van Wieren) goes the extra mile to keep the people she works with away from the system she no longer trusts.
Opening her home as a safe haven for George (Marcel Stewart), an ex-con and gambler, Tracy (Claire Burns), a drug-seeking musician, then Mina (Sharmila Dey), a battered wife, Stevie expertly masks her own issues with those of the broken lives she struggles to mend – until she’s confronted with the real dangers of crossing professional lines.
The River You Step In is a gritty, female character-driven Canadian drama.
“Astrid Van Wieren anchors this ensemble drama… Stevie seems driven by an uneasy combination of charity, white-knighting and white guilt. The film’s smartest decision is to put her contradictions out there and leave us wondering.” – Radheyan Simonpillai , NOW Toronto
Set in East End Toronto neighborhoods Leslieville and Riverside, THE RIVER YOU STEP IN is a character-driven drama about how the best intentions can go awry.
“A resonant exploration of the cost and rewards of caring, the pain of losing, and the grace of learning to move on.” – Erika Warmbrunn, author, Where The Pavement Ends.
Multiple awards and a festival favorite from Rotterdam to Madrid to Toronto:
- WINNER – Best Canadian Feature, Toronto Independent Film Festival of CIFT
- WINNER – Best Actress (Astrid Van Wieren), Toronto International Women Film Festival
- WINNER – Best Actress (Astrid Van Wieren), Chicago Indie Film Awards
- SEMIFINALIST – Rotterdam Independent Film Festival
- SEMIFINALIST – Capital Filmmakers Festival Madrid
- OFFICIAL SELECTION – Socially Relevant Film Festival; Great Lakes International Film Festival; Forest City Film Festival; IndieFEST Film Awards
“Strong performances. This film creates a lot of tension all the way through as it explores violence against women and the institutional blindness to this issue.” – Film Director Carolyn Combs
2019 / Drama / English / 97 minutes / Color / A film by Jon Michaelson
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