Tuesday, September 9, 6 - 8 p.m.
Finding Nemo (2003)
About the Film:
An overprotective clown fish named Marlin is desperate to find his missing son, Nemo. During his search, Marlin enlists the help of a forgetful blue tang, and they head for Sydney. It's rumored that a fishnapped Nemo is living there in a dentist's aquarium.
Marlin, a clown fish, is overly cautious with his son, Nemo, who has a foreshortened fin. When Nemo swims too close to the surface to prove himself, he is caught by a diver, and horrified Marlin must set out to find him. A blue reef fish named Doryb - who has a really short memory - joins Marlin and complicates the encounters with sharks, jellyfish, and a host of ocean dangers. Meanwhile, Nemo plots his escape from a dentist's fish tank.
The film received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film written and directed by Andrew Stanton, released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 30, 2003, and the fifth film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It tells the story of an over-protective clownfish named Marlin (Albert Brooks) who, along with a regal tang named Dory (Ellen Degeneres), searches for his son Nemo (Alexander Gould), who has been abducted in Sydney Harbour. It is Pixar's first film to be released theatrically during the Northern Hemisphere summer.
“There is something dreamlike about the visuals of “Finding Nemo,” something that evokes the reverie of scuba-diving.”
The trailer follows a clown fish named Nemo after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers.
Director: Andrew Stanton | Distributed by: Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Cinematography: Sharon Calahan; Jeremy Lasky | Produced by: Graham Walters
Tuesday, September 16, 6 - 8 p.m.
Kon-Tiki (2012)
About The Film:
This adventure film based on real events follows explorer Thor Heyerdahl as he attempts to travel across the Pacific Ocean on a raft made of balsa wood.
Based on True Events
Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl (Pål Sverre Hagen) suspects that the South Sea Islands were originally colonized by South Americans. In 1947 despite his fear of water and inability to swim, Heyerdahl decides to prove his theory. He and five companions set sail from Peru on a balsa-wood raft built from an ancient design. Their only modern equipment is a radio, and they must navigate using the stars and ocean currents. After three exhausting months at sea, they achieve their goal.
With five loyal friends in tow, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails a fragile balsa wood raft along an ancient path some 4,300 miles across the Pacific.
“A blond boy’s own adventure, the fictionalized true-tale “Kon-Tiki” charts what sounds like, at least on paper, a remarkable journey.”
Heyerdahl was interested in demonstrating the possibility that ancient people from the Americas could have colonized Polynesia; to do so, he constructed Kon-Tiki (named for a legendary Inca god) from locally available balsa logs at Callao, Peru, and in three and a half months traversed some 4,300 miles (6,900 km) of ocean.
“But once “Kon-Tiki” gets out to sea, it delivers several thrilling set pieces that keep the film on a steady course.”
Directors: Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rønning | Nominations: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film Distributed by: Nordisk Film, The Weinstein Company, DCM Film Distrubution
Tuesday, September 30, 6 - 8 p.m.
A Plastic Ocean (2016)
About The Film:
This documentary explores the full impact of plastic pollution on the world's oceans via nature footage and interviews with conservationists. The film also discusses possible solutions for this crisis.
“One of the most important films of our time.”
A Plastic Ocean documents the global effects of plastic pollution and highlights workable technologies and innovative solutions that everyone - from governments to individuals - can do, to create a cleaner and greener ocean.
A Plastic Ocean is a new award-winning feature length documentary brought to you by a group of dedicated scientists, film-makers, social entrepreneurs, scholars, environmentalists and journalists, that explores the fragile state of our oceans and uncovers alarming truths about the consequences of our disposable lifestyle.
Director: Craig Leeson | Producers: Jo Ruxton, Adam Leipzig | Screenplay: Craig Leeson, Mindy Elliott
Distributed by: Netflix
An adventure documentary shot on more than 20 locations from 2012 to 2016. Explorers Craig Leeson and Tanya Streeter and a team of international scientists reveal the causes and consequences of plastic pollution and share solutions.
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A Plastic Ocean has been selected for screenings at international conferences and festivals around the world including at the Smithsonian Institute and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, where the film was seen by former US President Barack Obama and environmentalists Sylvia Earle and Jane Goodall.
““A strong sense that the scale of the human enterprise and the size of our planet have become fundamentally mismatched”
Tuesday, October 7, 6 - 8 p.m.
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
About the Film:
A famous oceanographer and his trusty crew seek revenge on the shark that ate his best friend in this quirky comedy-adventure. Directed by Wes Anderson, who co-wrote the script with Noah Baumbach.
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned (Owen Wilson), a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane (Cate Blanchett), a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston).
“I cherish its imperfections to the point where they no longer seem like imperfections. ”
The movie is a mix of family drama, celebrity, and revenge, and it also explores themes of regret, hope, and mending relationships
Director: Wes Anderson | Music by: Mark Mothersbaugh | Screenplay: Wes Anderson, Noah Baumach
Awards: Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Costume Design for a Contemporary Film
Distributed by: Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Tuesday, October 28, 6 - 8 p.m.
The Odyssey (2016)
About the film:
Summer, 1946. The Cousteau family, Jacques, his wife Simone and their two children Philippe and Jean-Michel, live in their beautiful house by the Mediterranean Sea. By day they dive, by night they watch the stars. It's paradise on earth. But Jacques is never content. He hungers for the adventure of the undersea world, and believes in the virtues of progress. With his invention, the aqualung, his recently acquired vessel, the Calypso, and a crew of free-spirited adventurers led by his wife, Simone, Jacques is ready to cross the world's oceans.
Ten years later, back from the boarding school, Philippe finds his father greatly altered as an international celebrity. Jacques cannot see it yet, but Philippe already understands that progress and pollution have begun to lay waste to the submarine world. Yet father and son’s voyage to Antarctica may be their greatest adventure yet.
“Nothing was spared in Salle’s attempt to bring Cousteau’s life to the screen, with complex underwater work and plentiful location shooting”
Outside France where he is a national treasure, Cousteau’s name will resonate with older audiences which remember the 1960s TV series The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau on board The Calypso and his later work as an empassioned environmentalist.
This film encompasses thirty years in the life of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the researcher, scientist, inventor, and filmmaker whose contributions made the general public more curious about the sea.
Director: Jérôme Salle
Distributed by: Wild Bunch
Tuesday, November 4, 6 - 8 p.m.
Jaws (1975)
About the film:
An enormous great white shark terrorizes a summer resort town, where a police chief, a grizzled fisherman and an intrepid marine biologist realize they're "gonna need a bigger boat" to battle the bloodthirsty beast.
An Oscar winner for sound, editing and John Williams' score.
When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing that the loss of tourist revenue will cripple the town.
Ichthyologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and grizzled ship captain Quint (Robert Shaw) offer to help Brody capture the killer beast, and the trio engage in an epic battle of man vs. nature.
Featuring an unforgettable Oscar-winning score by John Williams that evokes pure terror, Jaws remains one of the most influential and gripping adventures in motion picture history.
From the day it was released - opening to exceptional reviews - it was a box office blockbuster - shooting to the top of the list of highest grossing films of all time. Jaws was the movie everybody talked about - and everybody wanted to experience for themselves in the summer of 1975.
““You’re gonna need a bigger boat.””
Director: Steven Spielberg
Story by: Peter Benchley
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
“Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” is a sensationally effective action picture, a scary thriller that works all the better because it’s populated with characters that have been developed into human beings we get to know and care about.”
Tuesday, December 2, 6 - 8 p.m.
Saving Jaws (2019)
About the Film:
Marine biologist Ocean Ramsey travels the world hoping to bring understanding about sharks in their natural habitats.
As a follow up to Jaws, The Southeast Museum will be screenings Saving Jaws.
Follow both Ocean Ramsey, renowned marine biologist, and Juan Oliphant, award-winning underwater wildlife photographer, on their journey to combat the negative media associated with sharks. Watch them travel the world to uncover the reality of shark behavior and speak out for sharks’ well-being.
With the majority of media coverage focusing on the small percentage of negative shark encounters, this team will attempt to change the narrative on sharks for the better. Perception is everything and Saving Jaws has the goal of turning media coverage on sharks in a positive direction.
The main goal of Saving Jaws, is to educate viewers about sharks and promote their conservation by highlighting their majestic nature rather than portraying them as solely dangerous predators.
Director: Keoni TeTawa Bowthorpe | Writer: Keoni TeTawa Bowthorpe | Staring: Ocean Ramsey, Juan Oliphant
OCEAN RAMSEY attributes her unparalleled connection with sharks to over a decade of research, but many are convinced it is something more... The media has dubbed her "The Shark Whisperer"
Tuesday, December 9, 6 - 8 p.m.
Ocean of Obstacles (2021)
ABout the Film:
Ocean of Obstacles is a film documentary that reveals the story of a dozen blind teenagers as they attempt a life changing voyage at sea. The film follows the teens as they train at Lake Pleasant Harbor and then sail to Fajardo, Puerto Rico for a seven-day excursion.
The teens, nicknamed the "blind buccaneers", overcome fatigue, nature, and the scrutiny of others. This film is a story of perseverance, courage, and grit
““I wanted to show people you shouldn’t let obstacles in life hold you back, even if you can’t see them.””
The 82-minute film traces the students, who were recruited from Phoenix’s Foundation for Blind Children, from the outset, showing them learning the rigors of nautical life while discovering a little about themselves during their 2018 trip.
Award-Winning Documentary Chronicles The Journey Of 12 Blind Teenagers
In 2018, twelve blind teenagers who grew up in the desert heat, void of an ocean, defied all odds and learned how to sail at a local lake. To prepare, the youths spent Saturday mornings for weeks training at Lake Pleasant Harbor before traveling to Fajardo, Puerto Rico, for the seven-day excursion, including five days at sea.
The Blind Buccaneers at a tropical stop in the Caribbean during their weeklong sailing journey while filming Ocean of Obstacles; Photo courtesy Foundation for Blind Children