The Last Ocean Screening
Date: 31 May & 6 June
Location: Francesca Beale Theater, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 W. 65th St, Upper West Side, New York
Host: Film Society of Lincoln Center
New Zealander, Peter Young’s environmental film The Last Ocean, will be screening in New York as part the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Green Screen 2013 series. The Last Ocean calls for protection of the entire Ross Sea.
The most pristine marine ecosystem on Earth, the Ross Sea, has remained free from widespread pollution, invasive species, mining and over-fishing. Home to high concentrations of wildlife and an incredible array of animals, many found nowhere else on the planet, it is teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals and penguins that collectively comprise the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. It is a living laboratory providing scientists with the last chance to understand how a healthy marine ecosystem functions. Facing depleted fisheries everywhere else, the fishing industry has found its way south in pursuit of the Antarctic toothfish (sold as Chilean sea bass). Fishers plan to remove 50 percent of the adult toothfish from the Ross Sea and, in so doing, will destroy the natural balance of Earth’s last untouched ocean. Featuring beautiful Antarctic footage, this film presents the conservationist case and the campaign to counteract the fishing lobby.
Show times:
2:30pm Fri, May 31
Francesca Beale Theater
8:30pm Wed, Jun 5 – includes Q&A with Peter Young
Francesca Beale Theater
For more information about the screenings please click here and for information about film go to www.lastocean.org. Click here to see Peter Young talk about the film at TEDxAuckland 2012
The Last Ocean will also be showed around the United States, at:
7th & 8th June – Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle – Seattle International Film Festival, the largest, most highly attended film festival in the United States, is showing The Last Ocean forWorld Oceans Day.
14th, 18th, 23rd June – San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, California – With many of the Ross Sea scientistis as well as the Safeway Supermarkets head office located in the Bay area, these promise to be key screenings.
17th June – Safeway HQ at Pleasanton, California – A celebratory screening for the folk at Safeway Supermarkets, who have already chosen NOT to sell Antarctic toothfish from the Ross Sea.
19th June – Monterey Bay – Special screening for the folk at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
24th June – Champaign-Urbana, Illinois – A screening in the local town of Art Devries, a scientist who features in the documentary, and who has studied Antarctic toothfish in the Ross Sea longer than anyone else on the planet.
26th June – Screening in Cincinnati, Ohio – Kroger Supermarkets currently sell Antarctic Toothfish from the Ross Sea. We will be screening our film in Cincinnati and inviting Kroger Seafood buyers to the screening.
