Aqua Seafoam Shame is a documentary which explores the horrific diagnosis that 25% of our planet's surface is now garbage landfill, due to the pacific garbage patch and plastics. According to a 2012 New York Times article, in 20 years our world may no longer have any coral reefs - which means our oceans will revert back to the primordial sludge it was before creatures walked on land. What, if anything, can be done to backpedal the Earth from this cataclysmic trajectory?
AQUA SEAFOAM SHAME ~ Director's Cut
Directed by: iPhone Filmmaker Veronica Grey
The filmmakers could have gone the route of releasing the documentary only through "prestigious film festivals" but this elitist route would have been exactly that. Instead it is decided the message is too important to cater only to red carpet champagne premiers, that as a gift to our Mother Earth, it is hereby released ONLINE in its entirety for FREE to the masses.
Co-directors Kim Chiasson and Veronica Grey have never met in person or even felt the need to speak on the phone - collaborating their labor of love exclusively via email. Kim wears two hats as the editor as well. Along with executive producer Joshua JD Lemmens of Hope Studios.
Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation Wednesday to
approve a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines, handing a
major victory to clean-water advocates who sought to reduce the amount
of trash clogging landfills, the region’s waterways and the ocean.
Egged on by actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus and an array of environmental
groups, the City Council voted 13 to 1 to phase out plastic bags over
the next 12 months at an estimated 7,500 stores. Councilman Bernard
Parks cast the lone no vote.
"Let’s get the message to Sacramento that it’s time to go statewide,"
said Councilman Ed Reyes, who has focused on efforts to revitalize the
Los Angeles River.
