A Plastic Ocean
Section: Discover & Explore: Nature
Director: Craig Leeson / Hong Kong / 2016 / 102 min
English / Czech subtitles
18:00 - 19:42
U18
10:30 - 12:12
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British journalist, filmmaker, TV presenter and correspondent. He works with major TV companies such as BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera English. He began focusing on documentaries in collaboration with the National Geographic Channel. He deals with the issue of ocean pollution, Asia, and extreme sports.
Our story begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect.