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11th Annual San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival: Program 5

What: 11th Annual San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival

The 11th annual San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival (SFIOFF), North America's premier cinemaquatic© event, will dock at San Francisco's Bay Theatre for five days of ocean-themed films, discussions, and special events. Nearly 50 films, submitted by filmmakers from over 17 countries will fill the festival, including various world and U.S. premieres on film topics ranging from diving to surfing, sharks to ocean conservation, island cultures to the cultural importance of the world's marine resources.

How Nature Works: Barrier Island Foraging Strategies

How Nature Works: Barrier Island Foraging Strategies(USA) Gerrit Vyn, 7 min

To the untutored human eye, a Louisiana barrier island offers an unvaried landscape of water and sand. To the 30 species of birds that go there to feed, however, it offers a variety of food that would dazzle the diners on San Francisco's Valencia Street. Evolution, not Yelp reviews, helps these birds find what they're looking for. -SH

Through the Lens: Yellow-billed Loon

Through the Lens: Yellow-billed Loon(USA) Gerrit Vyn, 7 min

Yellow-billed Loons are often visible in the ocean off San Francisco during their winter stay in Pacific coastal waters. I've even them off the Crissy Field beach. Summer takes this bird of haunting cry and regal black and white plumage to remote arctic lakes and estuaries where it breeds. Gerrit Vyn of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology captures their beauty with striking images and superb audio. (Full disclosure: Loons are among my favorite birds.) -SH

Can't Stop the Water

Can't Stop the Water(USA) Rebecca Marshall Ferris, 34 min

Since 1840, when they were fleeing forcible removal to the west, the Isle de Jean Charles band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw people have called the tiny isle home. Now, battered by government indifference and threatened by repeated hurricanes, their once thriving farming and fishing community has dwindled to just 25 houses. Where will they go? -SH

Une Balade à la Mer (A Trip To the Sea)

Une Balade à la Mer (A Trip To the Sea)(France) Damien Stein, 3 min

In order to free his goldfish from captivity, a determined man journeys to the sea in the face of great dangers from the larger world. There are a few surprises along the way… -DB

Defeating Oceans Seven

Defeating Oceans Seven(Austria) Rouven Blankenfeld, 52 min*

There are seven ocean passages that ultra open water swimmers dream of crossing. After the English Channel, Catalina, Gibraltar, Molokai, New Zealand's Cook Strait, and the Irish Sea, our hero's last and coldest, is Japan's Tsugaru Strait between Honshu and Hokkaido.  Marathon swimmer Steven Redmond attempts to conquer this most difficult passage and be the first to complete all seven. -KH

Saturday, 03/08/14

Contact:

Ana Blanco

Phone: (415) 561-6251
Website: Click to Visit

Cost:

$15 General, $10 Senior/Student, $8 Child

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 San Francisco, CA 94133