The film raises questions such as: Who determines the future of shared public resources? What are alternatives to water privatization? How will we maintain our public water systems and who can we hold accountable?
Director’s Bio
Liz Miller is an independent filmmaker and professor in Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. For the last fifteen years, Miller has developed documentary and community media projects and conducted media workshops for women and human rights organizations across the Americas.
Praise for The Water Front
We face a huge challenge in the U.S. to sustain our current level of water provision and standards. As a false solution, we have allowed multinational corporations to set the political agenda for water management. We need materials such as The Water Front in order to start the crucial discussions of the management of our water resources and find the difficult solutions that will take not only the power of elected officials, but the commitment of our communities. The Water Front will help push water front and center for our decision makers who have failed to act.—Maj Fiil, Food & Water Watch
The community leaders profiled in The Water Front are good examples of the wealth of talent and experience among older adults that’s ready to be tapped for solving social problems. The film is very much in line with Civic Ventures’ mission to reframe the debate about the aging of America by redefining the second half of life as a source of social and individual renewal.—David Banks, Executive Director, Civic Ventures
If you care about water and your ability to access it, you need to see The Water Front. —Ezra Winton, Programmer of Cinema Politica
“As water becomes scarcer and more expensive globally, managers of poor cities like HP all over will be tempted to sell their most precious commodity even if they are unable to provide water to their own communities. They need viable alternative models and a commons movement that shares their dilemmas so that our beautiful Great Lakes water does not succumb to the Siren’s call of the quick and fickle market.” —Eunice Yu, Freelance Journalist
