19th International Ocean Film Festival Opens Tomorrow
The 19th annual International Ocean Film Festival in San Francisco, California opens tomorrow.
Since 2004, the mission of the four-day Festival is to be the global platform for ocean literacy and education throughout independent film. A wide variety of films are shown with post-screening discussions with film directors, producers and protagonists.
Thursday, April 7th
- The Oyster Farmer, Kika Tuff (USA) 5 minutes
- Albacore Tuna: The Tale of a Fish, Jennifer Marie Bell, Jessica Eden (USA) 37 minutes
- The Witness is a Whale, Nick Dean and Cheryl Dean (Austria) 52 minutes
- Back to the Sea, Jack Gordon (USA) 6 minutes
- Eight Arms That Unite Us, Abdillah Intje (Indonesia) 9 minutes
- The Last Vaquita, Ed Harrison & Luke Ripley (UK) 13 minutes
- In Too Deep – The True Cost of Deep Sea Mining, Maarten van Rouveroy (Netherlands) 19 minutes
Friday April 8th
- Mangrove Forests: Roots of the Sea I Marine Ecosystem Diaries, Rebecca Daniel (UK) 4 minutes
- The Dark Hobby, Paula Fouce (United States) 56 minutes
- The Origin – Life around the Hot Spring, Claudia Schmitt (Germany) 4 minutes
- STURMFAHRT – The World’s Toughest Sailing Race, Philipp Grieß (Germany) 90 minutes
- Resurrection Artist, Scott Fitzloff (USA) 22 minutes
- Waterman, Isaac Halasima, Steven Ungerleider, David Ulich, Michael Cascio (USA) 93 minutes
- Lionfish: Ocean Murder Hedgehogs, Sarah Baumann (USA) 2 minutes
- Soul of the Ocean, Howard Wesley Hall (USA) 78 minutes
Saturday April 9th
- Deep Look: Starfish Gallop With Hundreds of Tubular Feet, Josh Cassidy (USA) 5 minutes
- Adventures of a Maritime Archaeologist, Kurt Mann (USA) 12 minutes
- I Just Went for a Swim, Adam Dostalek (Australia) 18 minutes
- Nā Kama Kai – Children Of The Ocean, Ju Martins (USA) 36 minutes
- Celestial, Jack Gordon (USA) 28 minutes
- Great White Sharks, Lakan Duskin (USA) 3 minutes
- Fish with Superpowers – The Clownfish and the Shark, Hendrik S. Schmitt (Germany) 5 minutes
- Emperors of the Deep – Short, William Mckeever, Paul Rachman (USA) 20 minutes
- Sharks of the Sea of Cortés: A Lost Treasure?, James Ketchum (Mexico) 27 minutes
- Changing Seas: Recreational Shark Fishing: Collaborating for Conservation, Kristin Paterakis (USA) 27 minutes
- The Forest Stands Tall, Abbey Dias (USA) 2 minutes
- Veins of an Island, Shireen Rahimi (USA) 8 minutes
- Coextinction, Gloria Pancrazi, Elena Jean (Canada) 93 minutes
- ICEolation, Sophie Ballagh & Ewan Blyth (Antarctica) 28 minutes
- Soul of the Ocean, Howard Wesley Hall (USA) 78 minutes
- Tess Felix: Portrait Artist, Cynthia Abbott, Andrea E. Leland (USA) 8 minutes
- Selma, Maciek Jabłoński (Poland) 92 minutes
- It’s Time to Listen, Louisa Gilbert (Canada) 7 minutes
- Fishing with Wally, Ellie Schmidt (USA) 20 minutes
- Bangla Surf Girls, Elizabeth D Costa, Lalita Krishna (Canada) 85 minutes
Sunday April 10th
- Hungry Jellyfish, Sabrina Inderbitzi (Switzerland) 4 minutes
- My Journey Across the Ocean, Madeleine Kelly Toomey (USA) 4 minutes
- The Blue Forest, Philip Hamilton (UK) 35 minutes
- Twist and Spin, Peter Donovan Walker (Vanuatu) 50 minutes
- Planktonium, Jan van IJken (Netherlands) 15 minutes
- Open Ocean, Nathan Siegel (Spain) 83 minutes
- Tess Felix: Portrait Artist, Cynthia Abbott, Andrea E. Leland (USA) 8 minutes
- Bodies of Water, Lavado Stubbs (USA) 10 minutes
- The Ocean Solution, Darcy Hennessey Turenne (USA) 14 minutes
- Coding for Crayfish, Serge Raemaekers, Karen Logan (South Africa) 30 minutes
- INTO THE BLUE: The Wonders of The Coral Triangle, Robert Fonollosa (Spain) 50 minutes
- Stranded: A Whale Rescue Tale, Bruce Nairn, Ashley Love (USA) 25 minutes
- Archipelago New York – An Island City, Thomas Halaczinsky (Germany) 53 minutes
- Deep Look: Sea Slugs Scrub Seagrass by the Seashore, Mike Seely (USA) 4 minutes
- Whetū Mārama – Bright Star, Toby Mills, Aileen O’Sullivan (New Zealand) 90 minutes
To purchase tickets to the International Ocean Film Festival, visit here.
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