A Plastic Ocean – newportFILM

You’re invited to a free community screening in the Jane Pickens Theater with newportFILM & 11th Hour Racing!

A PLASTIC OCEAN
Presented by 11th Hour Racing
With support from Aquidneck Land Trust
In partnership with Clean Ocean Access & in support of the Aquidneck Island “Ban The Bag” initiative

Tuesday, November 1
Jane Pickens Theater
49 Touro Street, Newport, RI

6:30 PM
Film screening, followed by panel discussion with:

– Commander Brad Donnelly, past Auxiliaries Officer in charge of Waste Management on an Aircraft Carrier (Joint Military Operations Department/Naval War College)
– Dave McLaughlin (Clean Ocean Access)
– Charlie Enright (skipper/co-founder of 55 South)
– Keith Cialino (NOAA Marine Debris Program)
– Philippe Beaulieu (Project Manager at PyroGenesis Canada)

Moderated by:
Dennis Nixon (Director Rhode Island Sea Grant and Professor University of Rhode Island)

FREE ADMISSION
RSVP & Watch Trailer at bit.ly/PlasticDoc

ABOUT THE FILM:
A Plastic Ocean is a new feature-length adventure documentary that brings to light the consequences of our global disposable lifestyle. We thought we could use plastic once and throw it away with negligible impact to humans and animals. That turns out to be untrue.

In A Plastic Ocean, an international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface of our seemingly pristine Ocean.

The results will astound viewers–just as it did our adventurers–who captured never-before-seen images of marine life, plastic pollution, and its ultimate consequences for human health.

During its four-year production period, A Plastic Ocean was filmed in 20 locations around the world in beautiful and chilling detail to document the global effects of plastic pollution–and introduce workable technology and policy solutions that can, if implemented in time, change things for the better.