Into the Gyre
Program Running Time
66 min.
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Films in Program
Directed By: Scott Elliott
(USA, 2012, 44 mins, HDCAM)
Boarding a tall ship with a team of scientists and sailors, filmmaker Scott Elliott voyages to the North Atlantic Gyre and explores the full extent of plastic pollution. An eye-opening document of the damage that’s been done to our oceans. Plays with: Carbon for Water
Directed By: Evan Abramson, Carmen Elsa Lopez Abramson
(USA, 2011, 22 mins, HDCAM)
Needing to boil their contaminated drinking water to stave off illness, women in Kenya’s Western Province sacrifice everything—including education and personal safety—to scrounge for firewood. Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez highlight the inspired solution that’s been found for this environmental crisis. Plays with: Into the Gyre