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ENVIRONMENTAL FILM SERIES: Earth Week
All screenings are at the Southeast Museum of Photography's Madorsky Theater (Daytona Campus of Daytona State College) Movie admission is by donation - No reserved theater seating.
	TURTLE: The Incredible Journey (Doc) Dir. Stringer (UK/Austria/Germany, 2009)This amazing documentary follows the odyssey of a loggerhead turtle in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. 81 minutes. April 23 - 5:00 pm April 24 - 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm April 25 - 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm
Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream to the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic across to Africa and back to the beach where she was born. But the odds are stacked against her; just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey. She faces many hazards, her siblings are lost in the doldrums of the Sargasso Sea, she comes face to face with creatures of the deep and nearly dies at the hands of fishermen. She travels up north but she drifts from her life current, the Gulf Stream, into dangerously cold waters. But deep and powerful changes are happening in the oceans – the fish are disappearing, sea levels are rising, the turtle’s birthing beach could be washed away and bring a way of life to an end. When she finally reaches the shores of Florida, 25 years will have passed! “With the growing interest in cinema documentaries, entering the big screen domain of Hollywood gives us a chance to reach new audiences and raise much needed awareness about the threats to our oceans. We hope to inspire the children of today to be custodians of our marine world tomorrow, while at the same time stirring their parents to save our seas now,” says Chris Clarke, the Director of the SOSF. SOSF believes that watching the film at the cinema will allow for a more dramatic and emotional experience than a TV production, keeping the ocean and issues such as over-fishing, destructive and wasteful fishing methods, pollution and the negative impacts of beach development at the forefront of people’s minds. “Though the popcorn may have long vanished we hope the impact on people from the film will help stop the ocean’s inhabitants from going the same way,” says Chris. SOSF encourages the audience to track the star of the film, a loggerhead turtle named FeeBee who was released off the Florida coast in 2008, on their website (www.saveourseas.com). It also urges people to become active in helping protect sea turtles and supports several marine turtle research projects across the globe. Turtle: The Incredible Journey is a co-production with F&ME and Big Wave, a UK based wildlife film company, which has won numerous awards for its productions for leading international broadcasters, including Animal Planet, the BBC, Discovery and National Geographic. It is directed by Emmy Award winner Nick Stringer and narrated by the twice-Oscar nominated actor Miranda Richardson using a script by Mel Finn (who also scripted The Crimson Wing, the first feature from Disney’s new Disney nature division).
	CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil(Doc) Dir. Berlinger (USA, 2009) This cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. 104 minutes. April 23 - 3:00 pm April 24 - 3:00 pm April 25 - 3:00 pm

The inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama, set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, exploring a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus. The landmark case takes place in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador, pitting 30,000 indigenous and colonial rainforest dwellers against the U.S. oil giant Chevron. The plaintiffs claim that Texaco – which merged with Chevron in 2001 – spent three decades systematically contaminating one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, poisoning the water, air and land. The plaintiffs allege that the pollution has created a“death zone” in an area the size of Rhode Island, resulting in increased rates of cancer, leukemia, birth defects, and a multiplicity of other health ailments. They further allege that the oil operations in the region contributed to the destruction of indigenous peoples and irrevocably impacted their traditional way of life. Chevron vociferously fights the claims, charging that the case is a complete fabrication, perpetrated by “environmental con men” who are seeking to line their pockets with the company’s billions.

The case takes place not just in a courtroom, but in a series of field inspections at the alleged
contamination sites, with the judge and attorneys for both sides trudging through the jungle to litigate.
And the battleground has expanded far beyond the legal process. The cameras rolled as the conflict raged
in and out of court, and the case drew attention from an array of celebrities, politicians and journalists,
and landed on the cover of Vanity Fair. Some of the film’s subjects sparked further controversy as they
won a CNN “Hero” award and the Goldman Award, the environmental equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Shooting in dozens of locations on three continents and in multiple languages, Berlinger and his crew
gained extraordinary access to players on all sides of the legal fight and beyond, capturing the drama as it
unfolded while the case grew from a little-known legal story to an international cause célèbre. Crude is a
ground-level view of one of the most extraordinary legal dramas of our time, one that has the potential of
forever changing the way international business is conducted. While the environmental impact of the
consumption of fossil fuels has been increasingly documented in recent years, Crude focuses on the
human cost of our addiction to oil and the increasingly difficult task of holding a major corporation
accountable for its past deeds.