So here we are. 36 days from Sundance. Our site is up, Irena’s hard at work in the editing room, in a final push to the finish.

It’s kind of hard to believe that 5 years ago this month, Irena and I started talking about her vision for a film about water. She was impassioned, amazed that the whole world didn’t see what she saw, what was happening to this life-giving force.

She sent me a Nation article, Who Owns Water? It shocked me just as much as it shocked her; I had never given water much thought, certainly not as a big issue, a geopolitical disaster-in-the-making. So the two of us started on a journey, an amazing journey, one of Irena traveling the world with her camera, with me begging every one I knew to put more travel dollars into our wild-eyed mission.

Caroleen Feeney, Gill Holland, Stephen Nemeth, Yvette Tomlinson.... a steady flow of generous and committed friends got behind us. And how lucky we are! Five years later and five weeks from world-premiering at Sundance, it's a filmmakers’ dream come true. It’s hard, perhaps impossible, to explain how grateful we all are.

But it’s easy to say how much we’ve all been humbled by this experience: a whole lot. Every single one of us has been affected deeply. Water does that to you.

Water has magic and mystery; it’s what we’re made of, from whence we came. To show a rising tide of crisis all over the world, to see that industry and capital have bruited about this life-giving substance, that our children are dying, that greed is moving faster than reason, is to only begin to understand what we're up against.

FLOW hopes to show the struggle on the ground, to meet the local heroes, to locate the solutions. There’s no narrator, no one telling you how to think about the people you meet in the film and the places you go. That’s left entirely up to you, and that’s one of Irena’s great achievements as a filmmaker.

It’s our goal to deploy FLOW as an engine for change, to be made available as a tool for those who are fighting for water justice everywhere. So if you have ideas on how to use the film locally, contact us through the site, so when we’re closer to FLOW's release, we’ll give you more info on how to make that happen.

And please don’t be shy, we’re busy working to support screenings all over the globe. Include yourself. Be part of this. Water is big, bigger than oil. Why? Because you can’t live without it.

If you’re lucky enough to be at Sundance in late January, here are the Sundance screening times for FLOW: For Love Of Water –

Sun. January 20, 8:30pm, Holiday Village Cinema II

Mon. January 21, 12:15pm, Holiday Village Cinema III

Tue. January 22, 9:45pm, Broadway Centre Cinemas (Salt Lake City)

Thu. January 24, 2:30pm, Library Center Theatre

Fri. January 25, 11:30pm, Holiday Village Cinema II

If you’re not going to Park City this year, please sign our petition and join our mailing list, we’ve got big plans ahead. And if you’d care to help, one easy way is just to link to this site from your own blog, or email a friend to help us get the word out. Thanks, and stay tuned, we’ll be getting a trailer up on the site in the next couple of weeks.

Again, thanks for taking a look, and to water for all,

Steven Starr, Producer

FLOW: For Love Of Water