City to Sea – Inspiring Youth with WILDCOAST and City Surf Project
Join San Francisco Bay Area youth on a journey of discovery as they learn to apply the healing powers of surfing to protecting and preserving ocean habitats and coastal wetlands in California. Directed by Jordan Miller Filmmaker in Attendance
PlasticSphere
The documentary follows a group of Latin American environmentalists and scientists on their risky expedition through the second largest reef in the world. Its objective is to investigate and document the alarming plastic and microplastic pollution that is seriously affecting marine life, tourism and fishing resources in the region, as well as human health. As […]
Tahlequah The Whale: A Dance of Grief
In the aftermath of her newborn baby’s sudden death, orca mother Tahlequah carries her daughter’s body across the Salish Sea in the incredible true story that captivated the world. Directed by Daniel Kreizberg
Resilience
Today, all eyes are on deep seas. What are their secrets? What resources do they contain? At the center of the debate on their exploitation: the resilience of these vulnerable and little-known ecosystems. The animated film Reslilience proposes a reflection about the impact of anthropogenic activities on hydrothermal vent fauna and flora through a parallel […]
PLSTC
Welcome to the world of PLSTC, an undersea dystopia that submerges you in the disturbing reality of plastic pollution in our oceans. Through a series of graphically confronting AI-generated and hand-composited images of ocean creatures, this experimental animated film confronts you with the devastating consequences of our habits on marine life, and leaves you gasping […]
InBetweening Beings
Inbetweening Beings connects animation and ecology. With projected installation, outdoor stop-motion, and found materials, humans are invited and implicated into nature. Directed by Isaac King
Foreigner
An alien looking for life on other planets arrive on earth now made of wastelands. He descends into a large cave in the underworld. He discovers prehistoric animals brought back to life thanks to genetic experiments of a now extinct human civilization. He discovers a laboratory where the last humans had holed up to defend […]
Whale Nation
A humpback whale is beached on a remote shore. During the fight to save its life, scientists discover the story of these extraordinary creatures, with unknown territories and a barely known society. Directed by Jean Albert Lievre *Filmmaker in attendance
Send Kelp!
A bootstrapping seaweed nerd takes on climate change and global food insecurity armed with nothing but determination when she sets-up her own kelp farm. Directed by Blake McWilliam
Canary
Witness the extraordinary life of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, an explorer who went where no scientist had gone before and transformed our idea of what is possible. Daring to seek Earth’s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, Lonnie found himself on the frontlines of climate change—his life’s work evolving into a […]