OCEAN POLLUTION
Channel: NARRATING NATURE
Date: 2020-12-08

Narrating Nature

Ocean Pollution (10:26". English. 2020)

A visual essay, four voices, four stories. Water is a fundamental resource that takes on several forms: rainwater, drinking water, rivers, streams, glaciers, oceans, and the climate system. Why it matters, and what can we do to make it better? For this reason, our documentary emphasizes how plastic pollution harms both the visible and also distant parts of the environment. The main focus of the film will be on humans and marine species that appeal emotionally to humans. Oceans touch coastlines across the world, so the issue of plastic pollution has worldwide relevance and appeal. This project is an amateur documentary film that will employ the characteristics of expository and poetic filmmaking. The physical dynamics of water lend themselves to aesthetic and cinematic scenes that will complement a long narrative centered around global harm caused by plastic pollution. 

Featuring: Everette (Rett) Newtown, Mayor of Beaufort, NC. and Dan Rittschof, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sciences and Marine Biology, Nicholas School of the Environment. Duke University.

A film by Kim Hernandez, Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Dejanae Davis, and Meera Chakrabarti.

2020