Like the old adage about elephants, the ocean never forgets. What we carelessly throw away, the ocean often retains – with disastrous impacts. The new film “X Trillion” follows a group of women experts on a journey to visit the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a floating collection of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean.
“X Trillion” was selected as the winner in the category of Feature Length Documentary Film from a panel of marine scientists and environmental advocates for the Changing Tides Ocean Film Festival. It screens March 22 at Georgia State’s Cinefest Film Theatre.
Director Eleanor Church joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes, along with Kim Sonderman, the executive director of the Southeast Regional Sea Turtle Network, as co-presenters of the film festival alongside Surfrider Georgia.
Regarding the Changing Tides Ocean Film Festival, Sonderman said, “I think we’ve created a wonderful platform for people like Eleanor and other filmmakers to show the impacts of things like microplastics on our environment, as well as on the human body.” She continued, “It’s important for people to understand that their actions right here in this city, can impact marine life and animals far far away, that they would never see on an everyday basis.”
You can find more information about the Changing Tides Ocean Film Festival here.
