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08-30-2005, 08:32 AM
Upcoming screening and PBS broadcast of Last Journey for the Leatherback? in the Bay Area
1. Last Journey for the Leatherback? to Be Screened at San Geronimo Valley Community Center in West Marin, Sept. 30th
For more information contact:
Tom Davis, +1 707 280 4020 (cell)
Save the Leatherback Campaign Assistant
Our new documentary Last Journey for the Leatherback? by the Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Stan Minasian (dir. The Last Days of the Dolphins?, The Free Willy Story: Keiko's Journey Home) will be screened at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center in Marin County on September 30 from 7-9 pm.
For information about the San Geronimo Valley Community Center visit https://www.sgvcc.org/
For more information about Last Journey for the Leatherback? visit https://www.seaturtles.org/prog_camp2.cfm?campaignID=25
2. Last Journey for the Leatherback? to Be Broadcast on KCSM-TV on Saturday, September 10th at 7:30 p.m.
Our new documentary Last Journey for the Leatherback? will also be broadcast on KCSM-TV on Saturday, September 10th at 7:30 p.m. KCSM is available on Channel 17 for most Bay Area cable viewers. Check your local cable listing for complete information.
“Sea turtles are really symbolic of what’s happening to the oceans as a whole. As go sea turtles, so go, will go, the ocean,” explains Dr. Earle, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, in the stunning natural duotone opening sequence of the film as dozens of newly hatched leatherback sea turtles crawl to the water under the moonlight.
Scientists predict that the giant Pacific leatherback sea turtle, which has survived unchanged for over 100 million years, could vanish in the next 5 to 30 years, if current threats from wasteful industrial longline fishing are not curtailed. The female nesting population of leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean has collapsed by 95 per cent in the past 20 years. The leatherback is the largest sea turtle, measuring nine feet long, with the largest ever recorded tipping the scales at 2,000 lbs.
Last Journey for the Leatherback? is a moving documentary that combines science, activism and rare footage of endangered sea turtles, to tell the gripping story of sea turtles, the new icon of the ocean environmental movement. Sea turtles are quickly reaching the status of dolphins and whales and conservationists are becoming increasingly alarmed and active in their fight to save these gentle giants, and to stop the wide-spread impacts on the world’s ocean ecosystems. Last Journey for the Leatherback? will be broadcast this fall on PBS stations nationwide, beginning with KCSM, San Mateo.
For more information visit www.seaturtles.org <https://www.seaturtles.org/> , www.savetheleatherback.com <https://www.savetheleatherback.com/> , and www.gotmercury.org <https://www.gotmercury.org/> .
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Resources
€ Film and video reviewers: to receive a preview copy of the documentary call Robert at 415-488-0370 x 106 or email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
€ Interviews with filmmaker Stan Minasian and Dr. Sylvia Earle may be arranged
€ San Francisco Chronicle’s preview of the documentary available at: https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/27/WBG0N8D7EV1.DTL&type=printable <https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/27/WBG0N8D7EV1.DTL&type=printable>
€ E Film Critic’s review of the documentary available at: https://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=11104
€ Carrie Robertson of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation’s review of the documentary available at:
https://www.gulfmex.org/leatherback.htm
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Film Synopsis
Last Journey for the Leatherback?
(Dir. Stanley M. Minasian in conjunction with Turtle Island Restoration Network and the Center for Biological Diversity, Beta SP, stereo sound, 27:50 min., ISBN: 0-9761654-0-6, 2004)
Appearances by: Dr. Carl Safina, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Frank Paladino, Dr. Larry Crowder, Randall Arauz
Shot in the US and Costa Rica
The Last Journey for the Leatherback? documents the incredible life of the leatherbacks – the largest species of sea turtle — which can dive as deep as the whales and migrate across entire ocean basins. Much of the story is told through interviews with leading marine scientists, including Dr. Sylvia Earle, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and named Time magazine's first "hero for the planet."
The Last Journey for the Leatherback? also details the threat industrial fishing poses to their survival. Every year, industrial fishing boats set billions of baited “longline” hooks and millions of miles of nets to catch swordfish and tuna. These hooks and nets are prime causes in the decline of the leatherbacks.
“If the point of a documentary is to exact the will for change in an audience, Last Journey for the Leatherback has succeeded with me. Until the fishing industry gets responsible, they lose my few hundred bucks a year from this point forward. Is this really the way we should be gathering our fish supply?”
—Chris Parry, Efilmcritic.com
“Not your typical Discovery Channel educational video, ‘Last Journey for the Leatherback?’ takes a hard-hitting approach at spelling out the plight of the leatherback sea turtle and its fellow ocean dwellers.”
— Carrie Robertson of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation
1. Last Journey for the Leatherback? to Be Screened at San Geronimo Valley Community Center in West Marin, Sept. 30th
For more information contact:
Tom Davis, +1 707 280 4020 (cell)
Save the Leatherback Campaign Assistant
Our new documentary Last Journey for the Leatherback? by the Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Stan Minasian (dir. The Last Days of the Dolphins?, The Free Willy Story: Keiko's Journey Home) will be screened at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center in Marin County on September 30 from 7-9 pm.
For information about the San Geronimo Valley Community Center visit https://www.sgvcc.org/
For more information about Last Journey for the Leatherback? visit https://www.seaturtles.org/prog_camp2.cfm?campaignID=25
2. Last Journey for the Leatherback? to Be Broadcast on KCSM-TV on Saturday, September 10th at 7:30 p.m.
Our new documentary Last Journey for the Leatherback? will also be broadcast on KCSM-TV on Saturday, September 10th at 7:30 p.m. KCSM is available on Channel 17 for most Bay Area cable viewers. Check your local cable listing for complete information.
“Sea turtles are really symbolic of what’s happening to the oceans as a whole. As go sea turtles, so go, will go, the ocean,” explains Dr. Earle, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, in the stunning natural duotone opening sequence of the film as dozens of newly hatched leatherback sea turtles crawl to the water under the moonlight.
Scientists predict that the giant Pacific leatherback sea turtle, which has survived unchanged for over 100 million years, could vanish in the next 5 to 30 years, if current threats from wasteful industrial longline fishing are not curtailed. The female nesting population of leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean has collapsed by 95 per cent in the past 20 years. The leatherback is the largest sea turtle, measuring nine feet long, with the largest ever recorded tipping the scales at 2,000 lbs.
Last Journey for the Leatherback? is a moving documentary that combines science, activism and rare footage of endangered sea turtles, to tell the gripping story of sea turtles, the new icon of the ocean environmental movement. Sea turtles are quickly reaching the status of dolphins and whales and conservationists are becoming increasingly alarmed and active in their fight to save these gentle giants, and to stop the wide-spread impacts on the world’s ocean ecosystems. Last Journey for the Leatherback? will be broadcast this fall on PBS stations nationwide, beginning with KCSM, San Mateo.
For more information visit www.seaturtles.org <https://www.seaturtles.org/> , www.savetheleatherback.com <https://www.savetheleatherback.com/> , and www.gotmercury.org <https://www.gotmercury.org/> .
****
Resources
€ Film and video reviewers: to receive a preview copy of the documentary call Robert at 415-488-0370 x 106 or email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
€ Interviews with filmmaker Stan Minasian and Dr. Sylvia Earle may be arranged
€ San Francisco Chronicle’s preview of the documentary available at: https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/27/WBG0N8D7EV1.DTL&type=printable <https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/27/WBG0N8D7EV1.DTL&type=printable>
€ E Film Critic’s review of the documentary available at: https://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=11104
€ Carrie Robertson of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation’s review of the documentary available at:
https://www.gulfmex.org/leatherback.htm
****
Film Synopsis
Last Journey for the Leatherback?
(Dir. Stanley M. Minasian in conjunction with Turtle Island Restoration Network and the Center for Biological Diversity, Beta SP, stereo sound, 27:50 min., ISBN: 0-9761654-0-6, 2004)
Appearances by: Dr. Carl Safina, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Frank Paladino, Dr. Larry Crowder, Randall Arauz
Shot in the US and Costa Rica
The Last Journey for the Leatherback? documents the incredible life of the leatherbacks – the largest species of sea turtle — which can dive as deep as the whales and migrate across entire ocean basins. Much of the story is told through interviews with leading marine scientists, including Dr. Sylvia Earle, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and named Time magazine's first "hero for the planet."
The Last Journey for the Leatherback? also details the threat industrial fishing poses to their survival. Every year, industrial fishing boats set billions of baited “longline” hooks and millions of miles of nets to catch swordfish and tuna. These hooks and nets are prime causes in the decline of the leatherbacks.
“If the point of a documentary is to exact the will for change in an audience, Last Journey for the Leatherback has succeeded with me. Until the fishing industry gets responsible, they lose my few hundred bucks a year from this point forward. Is this really the way we should be gathering our fish supply?”
—Chris Parry, Efilmcritic.com
“Not your typical Discovery Channel educational video, ‘Last Journey for the Leatherback?’ takes a hard-hitting approach at spelling out the plight of the leatherback sea turtle and its fellow ocean dwellers.”
— Carrie Robertson of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation