Career
She began her film career in Chicago at the Fred A. Niles Communications Center (now Harpo Productions) and was the first female in the Midwest Chapter of the Directors Guild of America. Rivet-River also produced the American Broadcasting Company-television Network special for the National Council of Churches entitled Someone is Listening: Teens from Crisis to Caring with host Walter Payton. An ant-nuclear documentary she wrote and directed, If The World Goes Away Where Will the Children Play? was narrated by James Earl Jones with an original score by Martin Rubenstein played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Her film Peace Like A River, aired on Public Broadcasting Service with hostess Ellen Burstyn and others
She recently completed War On The Family: Mothers in Prison for American Broadcasting Company-television Chicago"s Sanctuary series.
