ocean conservation
feature films
Sequoias of the Seas
Dir. Natasha Benjamin, Dir. Ana Blanco
United States
" Sequoias of the Sea" tells the story of the environmental, cultural and economic destructions wrought in a California coastal town that's lost its kelp forest. It's a deep dive into the lives of fishermen, tribes, scientists and a community working to restore a habitat devastated by a warming climate.
The Herring People
Dir. Scott Renyard
Canada
A group of Volunteers struggle to mimic nature in two compromised estuaries to help save endangered pacific herring populations near Squamish and Vancouver British Columbia only to discover much greater forces are destroying herring populations along the Pacif Coast of North America.
Zanzibar Untold - A Changing paradise
Dir. Cosmin Dumitrache
Tanzania
A group of Volunteers struggle to mimic nature in two compromised estuaries to help save endangered pacific herring populations near Squamish and Vancouver British Columbia only to discover much greater forces are destroying herring populations along the Pacif Coast of North America.
La Escondida / The Hidden One
Dir. Raphael Reichl
Austria
La Escondida tells of the parallelism of two different worlds of work in the port city of Puerto Escondido ( Mexico ). Images of gestures of care for protected turtles and of the most exhausting manual labor for hotel facilities reveal commonalities and contradictions of actions.
Through an intimate approach to the daily lives of the workers and their personal stories, the film shows how a place can be drastically changed by global developments.
short films
