Emma Ward
Emma Ward is a writer and film critic from northern Virginia. Her work has been published by Bright Wall/Dark Room and The Pulitzer Center, among others. She took part in Reverse Shot’s Emerging Critics Workshop during the First Look 2023 festival.
The River Is Not a Border retraces the events of 1989 with an attentive but unobtrusive hand. Diago casts his participants not just as subjects but as storytellers, resulting in a film guided more by memory and feeling than historical fact or cinematic flair.