Ahead of a special upcoming screening of Lifeblood: Chesapeake River Stories, The Talbot Spy sat down with filmmaker Sarah Sampson for a pre-event conversation about the project and its stories.
The event—presented by the Avalon Foundation in partnership with Maryland Public Television, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Chesapeake Forum, and The Spy—brings together several of the region’s leading cultural institutions for an evening focused on the waterways that define life on the Eastern Shore.
Sampson, a Senior Producer at MPT and winner of 12 Capital Emmy Awards, is the producer and director of Lifeblood, a new documentary exploring the rivers, creeks, and streams that feed the Chesapeake Bay. In her conversation with Craig Fuller, she shares how the film came together and what drew her to the people whose lives are shaped by these waters.
The 60-minute film travels across the Chesapeake watershed, from the rapids of Great Falls on the Potomac to the quieter stretches of the Patuxent and Susquehanna, following kayakers, artists, and others who live and work along these rivers. Along the way, it captures a simple but powerful idea: that water is not just a natural resource, but the connective tissue of the region.
After the screening, Sampson will join Fuller on stage for a live Q&A with the audience.
This video is approximately three minutes in length. For ticket information, please go here.
Lifeblood: Chesapeake River Stories is a production of Maryland Public Television, with funding from The Nature Conservancy, Watermark, and MPT’s Chesapeake Circle.
