A SEA CHANGE
U.S.A. - 2009 - Documentary - 86 minutes
Screening: Sunday, September 26 • Avalon Theatre • 9:30am • Q&A to follow
Director: Barbara Ettinger
Host: Barbara Ettinger
Sponsor: Town Creek Foundation
Synopsis: This award-winning documentary follows the journey of retired history teacher Sven Huseby on his quest to discover what is happening to the world’s oceans. After reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Darkening Sea,” Sven becomes obsessed with the rising acidity of the oceans and what this “sea change” bodes for mankind. His quest takes him to Alaska, California, Washington, and Norway as he uncovers a worldwide crisis that most people are unaware of.
Speaking with oceanographers, marine biologists, climatologists, and artists, Sven discovers that global warming is only half the story of the environmental catastrophe that awaits us. Excess carbon dioxide is dissolving in our oceans, changing sea water chemistry. The more acidic water makes it difficult for tiny creatures at the bottom of the food web to form their shells. The effects could work their way up to the fish one billion people depend upon for their source of protein.
A Sea Change is the first documentary about ocean acidification. Chock full of scientific information, the feature-length film is also a beautiful paean to the ocean world and an intimate story of a Norwegian-American family whose heritage is bound up with the sea.
" ‘A Sea Change’ offers a searching, emotionally powerful look at ocean acidification. This problem is sometimes called the ‘evil twin’ of climate change, and many of us regard it as an existential threat to the future of fishing. The story is full of heart, scientifically accurate, and lyrical. It also offers good reason for hope, which is indispensable in the face of such a huge challenge." Brad Warren, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
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Biography: BARBARA ETTINGER is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work includes Martha and Ethel, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995 and was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, and Two Square Miles, which was broadcast on PBS and chronicles a grassroots battle against the incursions of a multinational cement plant.
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Website: http://www.aseachange.net/
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