Niiijii Films is Barbara Ettinger and Sven Husby. Their work includes Martha and Ethel and Two Square Miles.Their current film is A Sea Change, a feature-length documentary on ocean acidification. Imagine a world without fish. It's a possibility, if the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to dissolve into the ocean at its current rate. A Sea Change looks at what's going on, both scientifically and socially, and what might be done to stop it. In post right now, A Sea Change's editing should be completed in October 2008. Cutting the film is Toby Shimin, whose credits include Everything's Cool, a documentary about climate change, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Following a screening of A Sea Change at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby answer questions about the film and ocean acidification. The plan was to receive tweeted questions and emails from other venues screening for World Oceans Day. Well, we couldn't get online: Verizon decided to test its cables during that one-hour period, alas. So no live webcast.However, we did receive some questions from Spain. From Vilanova i la Geltrú, to be exact, in Cata...
Imagine a world without fish.The world's fisheries could be headed toward a bottom-up collapse, if we continue to burn fossil fuels at our current rate. The carbon dioxide produced by burning is absorbed in the sea, changing its chemistry. This acidic seawater is inhospitable for shelled creatures at the bottom of the food chain.A Sea Change is the first documentary about ocean acidification, the flip side of climate change. The film combines hard scientific information—we interview internatio...
Valérie Burgener was instrumental in coordinating the activities of Sailing to Barcelona, one of the initiatives of the IUCN World Conservation Congress. Here she sums up the successes of the initiative. One big problem: the boats were a 40-min. metro ride away from the bulk of the Congress activities (at the Forum). So it was hard to coordinate activities, and to create opportunities for experts to interface with the sailors. A shuttle bus would have helped. IUCN: remember that for 2012.Meanw...
The Chantecaille family was well represented in Barcelona, with both mother (Sylvie) and daughters (Alex and Olivia) attending as delegates for the Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI). Mrs. Chantecaille has led the way in leveraging the family's international cosmetics business into a means of letting women know about marine conservation issues. She said: "We have so many women around the world who have an intimate relationship with us, because we're in their bathroom. . . . Once they...
Two charming students from Reunion Island talk about the importance of maintaining biodiversity. They were generous enough to speak with me in English; of course, they were much more comfortable in their native language (French, in case you didn't know). I hope to post their commentary for the francophones among us soon. The girls had just attended La Reunion 2008, a conference entitled “The European Union and its Overseas Entities: Strategies to counter Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss.'E...
Marie-France Cote speaks at Silverdocs 2007. Both a Film Producer and the Co-Founder of the Green Code Project, Marie-France spoke about the expanding, international assortment of people who are part of the Green Code Project and what they are doing to come up with practical steps to give filmmaking a smaller "footprint". Greencoders are people who are involved in some way or another with the film industry, and if you'd like to find out more about being part of this movement, check out their w...
Ben, our Associate Producer, speaks briefly about our plans to make A Sea Change a sustainable, low-impact film. Thanks to Cameron Hickey from Pattern Films for shooting.
