These items include thousands of plastic bottles, piles of rope and net fragments, and a vast, colorful collection of “nurdles,” the pea-sized pre-manufacture plastic pellets that along with other plastic products degrades into microscopic bits that are swallowed by animals, often killing them. For 40 years she has served as a naturalist on Sable Island - a thread of land (twenty-seven miles long by less than a mile wide) in the middle of the North Atlantic about 100 miles southeast of Nova Scotia - where among other duties she collects and inventories flotsam and jetsam washed ashore. at Journey’s End with live Q&A available online September 15-25 go here) must deal with detritus that drifts in from thousands of miles away. Like the Hawaiian beach sweepers in All of our Heartbeats, Zoe Lucas in Geographies of Solitude (screens September 18 at 12:30 p.m. A scene from Zoe Lucas’s Geographies of Solitude. Volunteers sort through them and clean the beach of debris that came from 4,000 miles away and a decade ago. Years later, as far away as the small Hawaiian island of Kaho’olawe, large so-called “ghost nets,” clumps of ropes, nets, and mostly plastic debris swept into the ocean by the tsunami, have washed ashore. Rainsford’s voiceover narration points out that the power of the quake altered the rotation of the earth, making the day 1.8 milliseconds shorter. There is no one to blame.”Īs is suggested by the film’s title, if you lived anywhere in the world during the cataclysm you would also have been touched by it in some way. “We were defeated by nature,” she writes. Sachiko, an older woman, lost her husband. She has nightmares, has withdrawn from all her relationships, and dreads the tsunami’s return. “I feel her close to me.” Satoko, a young woman, suffers from PTSD and survivor’s guilt. “When I stop moving in the middle of a dive I think of her,” he says. He has since taken up scuba-diving and obsessively searches the ocean for her remains. The wave presumably swept into her into the sea. at the Strand Theatre with live Q&A available online September 15-25 go here) looks into the fate of some of the survivors. Jennifer Rainsford’s meditative, poetic, often poignant All of our Heartbeats are Connected through Exploding Stars (screens September 16 at 12:30 p.m. The subsequent tsunami killed nearly 20,000 people with thousands more missing. If you were living in on the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, you would have experienced one of the worst earthquakes in modern history. A scene from Jennifer Rainsford’s A ll of our Heartbeats are Connected through Exploding Stars. Fittingly for a festival that takes place amongst such picturesque surroundings all three concern the impact people have on the places where they find themselves – and vice versa. This year CIFF has programmed 34 features, including among the former these three must-sees. You might call it the documentary version of the Toronto International Film Festival if Toronto did not already have Hot Docs. About a four and a half hour Amtrak ride down the Maine coast, Camden along with its neighbors Rockport and Rockland hosts what may be the finest documentary film festival in New England (pace Salem, Newburyport, and GlobeDocs). If you can’t make it to Toronto for their big festival (September 8-18) then the Camden International Film Festival (September 15-17 online September 15-25) might offer an excellent alternative. One-on-one meetings: Be matched with local investors and potential strategic partners.This year the Camden International Film Festival, which may be the finest documentary film festival in New England, examines the importance of place. #YASU BOSTON HOW TO#Mentoring: Receive individualized mentoring on how to position your business to succeed in the US market. Pitch Events: Pitch your idea and get feedback from industry experts. Seminars: Topics including a deep dive into the Boston life sciences ecosystem, how to pitch effectively to US investors.
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