River Obscura: Secrets of a Blackwater River – Episode Two

Musician and filmmaker Sammy Tedder draws continual inspiration from the wild beauty of the Sopchoppy River and its winding tributary creeks in this second installment of his nature films about this blackwater river. The rich biodiversity of this wild place is documented and accompanied by an original music score inspired by his decades of filming this unique area.

About the Filmmaker

Sammy Tedder and his wife Sandy live in a remote cabin on the Sopchoppy River in the Eastern Panhandle of north Florida.

Sammy has been a professional musician for more than 50 years, producing several albums of his original instrumental compositions and has performed on numerous other artists albums including Tom T. Hall and Rita Coolidge.

Tedder has also composed soundtrack music for several Florida nature films that have been featured on PBS.

In recent years he has produced three nature films about the Sopchoppy River and the surrounding wild places where he lives. He is the cinematographer, film editor and composer of the soundtrack music for these films and utilizes various genres of music—from Native American style flutes to jazz saxophone—to highlight his experiences in north Florida’s rapidly changing wild environments.

Sammy Tedder’s most recent film River Obscura: Secrets of a Blackwater River – Episode One received the 2024 Tallahassee Film Festival’s Audience Choice Award for Best Local/Regional Film.