Frances McDorman, Joel Coen to Executive Produce The Bend in the River

Oscar-winning couple Frances McDormand and Joel Coen have signed on to executive produce “The Bend in the River,” a feature-length documentary that will debut at the Telluride Film Festival .

The film is the final installment of director Robb Moss’ doc trilogy about a group of free-spirited friends navigating their way through life. (Think Michael Apted’s “7-Up” docuseries.) Moss, a veteran documentary filmmaker and a Harvard professor, began filming the group of five friends in 1978, when they worked as river guides in Colorado. The twenty-something friends and their trip down the Colorado River became the subject of the 1982 doc”Riverdogs.” Moss followed that up with the 2003 doc “The Same River Twice,” which follows the same group of friends as they come to terms with the complex