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The North-East of England, where the river meets the sea. Stan Rennie is the last of a long line of fishermen who have worked the same stretch of coastline for centuries.

When a vast tide of poisoned crabs and lobsters washes ashore like a biblical plague, Stan’s world is turned upside-down overnight, and he finds himself thrown into a battle for the future. Have the sins of the industrial past come back to haunt the present?

A wry, David and Goliath story about navigating through grief and finding power in community.

A film by Teessider Jeanie Finlay

Photo: Andy Martin

BFI Doc Society Fund and Screen Scotland Present A Glimmer Films and I Am Charlie Production. A Co-production with SWR, In Association with ARTE and Chicken & Egg Films, Jyoti Film and Varda Pictures

ALL RIVERS SPILL THEIR STORIES TO THE SEA
A FILM BY JEANIE FINLAY
Documentary, 99 MINS, 2026

Credits

DIRECTOR

Jeanie Finlay


CONTRIBUTING PRODUCER

Heather Baldry

Jeanie Finlay & Charlie Phillips

PRODUCERS

Julie Parker Benello, Shanida Scotland & ,Mark Thomas

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS


Nadja Lapcevic & Anke Peterson

CO-PRODUCERS




FILM EDITOR

Nicole Halova


ORIGINAL SCORE

Lomond Campbell


Kate Lingley & Elizabeth Klinck

ARCHIVE SUPERVISORS

MUSIC SUPERVISOR

Graham Langley


MENTAL HEALTH SUPERVISOR

Rebecca Day, Film in Mind


POST PRODUCTION

Serious