Jackie Rivet-River

Who is Jackie Rivet-River?

Jackie Rivet-River is an American TV writer, director, producer, and founder of Peace Productions, a non-profit organization. She has created more than 15 television programs including documentaries such as Too Flawed to Fix: Inside the Illinois Capital Punishment System, In a Time of Siege; a film about the antiwar activities of activist Kathy Kelly and narrated by Studs Terkel, War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Children They Leave Behind and Who is Thy Neighbor?. She began her film career in Chicago at the Fred A. Niles Communications Center and was the first female in the Midwest Chapter of the Directors Guild of America.

Rivet-River won an Emmy award for both Too Flawed to fix and Who is Thy Neighbor?. She also received a Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, and 12 additional awards nationally for Where Is Dead?, which she wrote, produced and directed for Encyclopedia Britannica Films.

Other credits include a series of half-hour specials for NBC and ABC television that addressed issues faced by underrepresented segments of society such as latchkey kids, victims of domestic violence, people with AIDS, gays and lesbians, and children in war.