Chasing Coral: A Movie Screening

February 14.

As part of the Coastwise Marine Festival, participants got to watch a wonderful, hard-hitting, insightful film that has become a measure of storytelling across the world.

Chasing Coral follows a team of divers, photographers and scientists out to photograph the elusive process of coral bleaching. The team at Coastwise wrote to the makers of this pathbreaking film to ask permission to screen the movie as part of the festival.

Chasing Coral taps into the collective will and wisdom of an ad man, a self-proclaimed coral nerd, top-notch camera designers, and renowned marine biologists as they invent the first time-lapse camera to record bleaching events as they happen. Unfortunately, the effort is anything but simple, and the team doggedly battles technical malfunctions and the force of nature in pursuit of their golden fleece: documenting the indisputable and tragic transformation below the waves. With its breathtaking photography, nail-biting suspense, and startling emotion, Chasing Coral is a dramatic revelation that won’t have audiences sitting idle for long. 

It was an eye-opening, heart-wrenching experience for the audience, who went home with a responsibility to read more, and know more about our oceans.