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Filmmakers Visit Audubon

To Highlight CO2 Effects

On Ocean Food Web

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Screening of: A Sea Change

3PM - 5PM

Imagine a world without fish. It's a frightening premise, and it's happening right now. Global warming of the atmosphere is only half the story of the environmental catastrophe that awaits us. Excess carbon dioxide is dissolving in our oceans, changing sea water chemistry. The more acidic water makes it difficult for tiny creatures at the bottom of the food web to form their shells. The effects could work their way up to the fish 1 billion people depend upon for their source of protein.

To increase awareness about this very real phenomenon called 'ocean acidification', Audubon Greenwich will host the Director, Barbara Ettinger, and Co-producer, Sven Huseby, on June 27th at 3PM when they screen their highly-acclaimed film, A Sea Change. Chock full of scientific information, this is the first documentary about ocean acidification. This feature-length film is also a beautiful paen to the ocean world and an intimate story of a Norwegian-American family whose heritage is bound up with the sea and a touching portrait of Sven's relationship with his grandchild Elias. As Sven keeps a correspondence with the little boy, he mulls over the world that he is leaving for future generations.

A disturbing and essential companion piece to An Inconvenient Truth, this scientifically-based film brings home the indisputable fact that our lifestyle is changing the earth, despite our rhetoric or wishful thinking. The filmmakers hope its message about ocean acidification will reach millions of people and leading policy-makers across the globe ahead and influence future UN Climate Change conferences designed to stop the massive amounts of carbon being released by coal, oil and natural gas fuels.

A Sea Change has played to sell-out crowds at major film festivals in Washington, DC, San Francisco, Seattle in 2009 and its many awards include: Best World Documentary, Sedona International Film Festival; Best Green Film, Kosovo International Documentary Film Festival; Grand Prize, Feature Documentary, FICA International Environmental Film Festival; Dumosa Award for Best Coastal Film, Cottonwood Environmental Film Festival; Best Nordic Country Film, Polar Film Festival; Aloha Accolade Award, Honolulu International Film Festival.

A discussion with the filmmakers will follow the screening at:
Audubon Greenwich
613 Riversville Road
Greenwich, CT 06831

Space is very limited and RSVPs are required.
$5 donation per person will be collected at the door
To RSVP, contact Jeff Cordulack at (203) 869-5272 ext. 239

For more information contact:
Jeff Cordulack
Events and Communications Manager
Audubon Connecticut/Audubon Greenwich
613 Riversville Road
Greenwich, CT 06831
(203) 869-5272 ext. 239
(203) 613-8813 (cell)
jcordulack@audubon.org
http://greenwich.audubon.org

http://audubonct.org