STONE
WATER
Films

Documentary film — finding the stories beneath the surface

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About

Stories buried
beneath the
surface

Stone and Water Films is a documentary film production company founded on the belief that the most important stories are the ones that have never been properly told — the human experiences buried under layers of assumption, distance, and received narrative.

We make films that go to the primary source. We sit with the people whose voices are absent from the conversation about their own lives, their own culture, their own history.

Stone endures. Water shifts. We film between them.

Films

In Development
001

Hidden
Roots

Set in Indiana, this film centers on a caseworker at Exodus Refugee — a nonprofit dedicated to supporting individuals and families as they rebuild their lives in the United States. The caseworker is himself an immigrant and naturalized US citizen, and his journey informs the way he shows up for others navigating similar paths. At its core, the film examines what it means to belong — how concepts like home, citizenship, and community are not fixed, but actively constructed through care, trust, and daily acts of support.

Format Documentary
Location Indiana, USA
Stage Development
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In Development
002

War Rugs
of Afghanistan

For centuries, Afghan weavers have encoded their world into carpet. At some point, tanks, Kalashnikovs, and landmines began appearing in the weave. The Western world has collected these objects, exhibited them, and debated their meaning — almost entirely without asking the people on either end of the exchange. This film travels between the weavers and traders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Western veterans who brought these carpets home from war, to ask the question nobody has properly answered.

Format Documentary
Length 52 — 60 min
Stage Development
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The Team

Josh Riedford

Co-Founder — Producer & Director

Josh
Riedford

Josh Riedford is an independent film producer and co-founder of Mr. Pictures, the production company behind Bullitt County — a feature thriller that debuted at the Austin Film Festival and was released theatrically through AMC in partnership with Gravitas Ventures. The film earned multiple festival awards including Best Feature Film at the Catalina Film Festival and Best of Festival and Best Narrative Feature at the Hoboken International Film Festival, with Josh personally recognised as producer on all major wins. With a background spanning production, music, and location management, Josh brings meticulous craft and operational expertise to every project. At Stone and Water Films he brings that same rigor to documentary storytelling.

Dr. Liz Riedford

Co-Founder — Director

Dr. Liz
Riedford

Dr. Liz Riedford is a former Worldwide Supervisory Refugee Officer with USCIS, where she led global teams in complex humanitarian adjudications with deep subject matter expertise on Afghanistan and the Middle East. A graduate-level instructor at Northeastern University, she teaches at the intersection of human rights, law, and policy. Her years of direct work with Afghan and refugee populations — and her firsthand travels through Pakistan and Afghanistan, most recently in April 2026 — brought her to documentary filmmaking as the most honest way to give voice to the stories that never make it into the official record. During her tenure she received the RAIO Global Excellence Award for Mission Achievement during Operation Allies Welcome, the Unsung Hero Award for her work at the Chicago Asylum Office, and the Peer-Nominated Resiliency Award with the RAIO Research Division.

Get
in touch

For press inquiries, festival programming, co-production opportunities, or general correspondence.

contact@stoneandwaterfilms.com
www.stoneandwaterfilms.com