The Weight of Water
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Director
- Robert Ainsley
- Production
- Tidewater Films
- Role
- Lead Editor
A procedural documentary that had to make water rights litigation feel as tense as a thriller. The edit relied on parallel storytelling — cross-cutting between both towns' legal teams — to build momentum toward a courtroom decision, using court transcripts and archival news footage to compress a ten-year case into a 92-minute arc without losing legal accuracy.
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