Month: December 2011

10th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival: January 13-15, 2012

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We are delighted to announce that Ocean Frontiers is an official selection of this coming year’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival.

Considered the largest film festival of its kind, the Wild & Scenic illuminates award-winning filmmakers and their stories alike, from around the world, to instigate positive social and ecological change. As Ocean Frontiers aims to do just that, and specifically around coastal and marine issues, it’s only natural we are proud to make the pick.

Join us for the 10th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival, this January 13-15th in Nevada City, California—get inspired and influence change.

Ocean Frontiers’ 48-minute version will be shown at the Masons’ venue on both Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning highlighting two of the four chapters. The two segments include the Gulf of Mexico and Iowa – where Farmers, by better tending their soils, are helping to restore the Gulf of Mexico more than a thousand miles away, and Port Orford, Oregon – a visionary fishing community that is working to achieve both a healthy near shore marine ecosystem and a sustainable fishery that supports their town.

Films we are excited to be accompanied by this January, at the festival, include Chasing Water, Patagonia Rising, One Ocean and many more about community activism, adventure, energy and climate change, agriculture, Native American and indigenous cultures.

To learn more about the Wild & Scenic Film Festival and to purchase tickets, click here.

 

 

 

 

Sneak Preview in Astoria, Oregon Following TSPWG Meeting

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Did you know Oregon is a leader in wave energy? And that there are three marine reserve sites pending implementation along Oregon’s coast? What does this mean to Oregonians and our beautiful, rich coastline—to our ocean viewers and surfers, our fisherman and businesses, our tribes and our state agencies?

On December 15th and 16th, 2011, you can join Oregon Ocean Policy Advisory (OPAC) and the Territorial Sea Working Group (TSPWG)—representing a range of Oregon ocean stakeholders—for the unveiling of Oregon’s territorial sea preliminary draft maps, as well as the partake in public comments, discuss planning options for our energy future, and hear the latest on the marine reserve process.

An Ocean Frontiers film sneak preview will follow the Territorial Sea Plan Working Group Meeting on Thursday December 15th, 2011, at 6PM; located at the Fort George Brewery (Lovell Taproom), Astoria, Oregon—hosted by Clatsop County.

Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Age in Ocean Stewardship is Green Fire Productions latest film and outreach campaign—intended to inspire, engage and mobilize communities around the nation to better care for the ocean both, locally and regionally, and to show support for the National Ocean Policy.

Coinciding with the sneak premiere of Ocean Frontiers, Oregon Coastal Zone Management Association (OCZMA) will premiere their film: Oregon’s Ocean Fisheries: A Conservation Story.

To learn about Oregon’s TSPWG and OPAC, and to make your voice heard in this important process, go to www.oregon.gov/LCD/OPAC/.

To read more on wave energy and how Oregon is playing a vital role in shaping the future of it, go to www.oregonwave.org/.