Robb Moss (Director), Lisa Remington (Producer), Kristin Feeley (Producer), Liz Gilbert Cohen (Co-Producer), Jeff Malmberg, ACE (Editor), Lawrence Everson (Re-Recording Mixer) Joel Coen & Frances McDormand (Executive Producers), Tot Long & David Lewis (Executive Producers), Shane Boris (Executive Producer) Jeff Reichert (Executive Producer), Geralyn White Dreyfous (Executive Producer), Regina K. Scully (Executive Producer), James Costa (Executive Producer), Trevor Burgess (Executive Producer), Katy Beal (Co-Executive Producer), Andrea van Beuren (Co-Executive Producer) | 2025 | 4980 min.
2026 Official Selection
The Bend in the River chronicles five close friends over nearly fifty years. Starting in 1978, director Robb Moss documents his friend’s outdoor rent-free life during one clothing-optional rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. In 2003, he filmed his friends again coming to terms with their transition from being young and carefree to responsible and middle-aged. Now, in 2025, Moss finds his friends in their 70s grappling with the choices they’ve made as individuals and as a generation. The film interweaves moments from the distant past with those of the recent present, taking viewers back-and-forth through time and inviting personal reflections on the inexorable flow of aging and the unfinished project of living.
Robb Moss
For nearly fifty years, Moss’s films have toggled between the topical and the personal. Africa Revisited (1981), Secrecy (2008), and Containment (2017) explore racial complexity, government secrecy and nuclear waste, while Riverdogs (1978), The Tourist (1991), The Same River Twice (2003) and The Bend in the River (2025) explore youthful extravagance, infertility and adoption, and the move from youth to middle age and beyond. His films have premiered at Sundance and Telluride, reviewed in the New York and Los Angeles Times, nominated for an Independent Spirit award, and shown theatrically in more than seventy Landmark Cinemas. Moss’s work has also been shown in festivals and museums in Lebanon, Germany, Turkey, Austria, England, Iran, Amsterdam, Brazil, Korea, Australia, France, and Israel. He has been a creative advisor at the Sundance Institute’s Doc Edit Labs since their inception in 2004, worked as a festival juror at Sundance, San Francisco, Denver, Camden, Seattle, Chicago, New England, and Ann Arbor, elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, served eight years as a Board Director for ITVS, and taught filmmaking at Harvard University for the past five decades where he is a Professor in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies.
Lisa Remington
LISA REMINGTON is an Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker who has produced over two dozen documentaries that have premiered at the Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, and Cannes Film Festivals while going on to find homes at HBO, Netflix, and PBS. Her hands-on approach of overseeing films from development to release has resulted in Molly O'Brien's Oscar-winning The Only Girl in the Orchestra, Nathaniel Khan's Emmy-winning Hunt for Planet B, and Emmy-nominated The Price of Everything. Other films include: Johanna Demetrakas' Feminists: What Were They Thinking?; the 2021 Jackson Wild Media Award winner, After Antarctica; Sam Feder's Disclosure; Lucy Walker's Countdown to Zero; and Mark Jonathan Harris' look at the Los Angeles foster care system, Foster. Lisa mentors for the Sundance Institute's Creative Producing Program and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Kristin Feeley
Kristin Feeley has worked in artist development at the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program since 2006, supporting the careers of hundreds of nonfiction directors, editors, producers. During her time at Sundance she re-launched the Documentary Producers Lab and Fellowship and created the Art of Editing Fellowship as well as the Nonfiction Critics Fellowship, the first Fellowship within the DFP to support writers and cultural critics. Kristin is committed to supporting all artists who contribute to a collaborative, inclusive artistic process in independent nonfiction. Prior to Sundance, Kristin worked in social policy research and arts nonprofits before pursuing a Masters in Film at the University of Glasgow.
Jeff Malmberg
Jeff Malmberg is an Emmy and Grammy-nominated filmmaker whose latest film as director and editor is the Netflix documentary The Saint of Second Chances. His debut film Marwencol won over two dozen awards, including two Independent Spirit Awards. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his second film, Spettacolo, which was recently selected for the Criterion Channel. He edited Focus Features' Won’t You Be My Neighbor? which has become one of the best-reviewed and highest-grossing documentaries of all time. Most recently, he edited the 50-year-in-the-making film The Bend in the River, which is set to premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. He is currently directing and editing a limited series for HBO. Jeff is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, the Directors Guild of America, and American Cinema Editors.
