Documentary filmmaker impressed with local vigilance for Catawba
The Catawba River is getting a spot in the limelight thanks to a documentary filmmaker and college students from South Carolina.
April 16, 2010
Virginia Friedman, a documentary filmmaker with the Center for Documentary at the College of Charleston, and several college students traveled to the Mountain Island area in March to film “Tapped Out,” a public TV show focusing on regional water issues.
Although the center primarily focuses on social issues and history in South Carolina, Friedman said she was drawn to Mountain Island Lake and the Catawba River because “water doesn’t know there is a boundary between North and South Carolina.”
“The Catawba River is such an important river, and I noticed it had been listed as one of the most endangered rivers,” she said. “So I knew that’s where we had to start. The Catawba comes into South Carolina, where we call it the Wateree, but it’s still the Catawba. So I’m very interested in looking at the whole system, from where it starts in the mountains and where it ends in the ocean.”
Friedman is working with College of Charleston students who are studying marine biology, anthropology and environmental science to sort out the issues facing the region’s water system.
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