My guest on today's show is Flow's director Irena Salina. She started her career at the age of 15 as a radio journalist in Paris.
Her first feature length film won Best Documentary at the and the Presidents' Award at Mexico's prestigious
The film, the brainchild of director Irena Salina, opened in September
of 2008 and has helped to bring a greater awareness to many about the
seriousness of these issues and the risks to mankind and the
environment if we do not take action now to curtail present-day
activities by corporations and governments that may threaten basic
water rights for a large percentage of the world's population. The film
has also helped bring a heretofore unheard of term into the public
lexicon: Water Rights.
Wired Magazine referred to the documentary as the "scariest movie at the Sundance Film Festival" after its screening there in 2008.