Shark Fin Hunters

Every year more than 70 million sharks are harvested for their fins. They are considered a delicacy in Asia used in shark fin soup which has been a status symbol […]

Reviving the Forgotten River

The Anacostia River, nicknamed “DC’s forgotten river,” is an infamously polluted tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. One of only three US rivers to be legally “impaired by trash,” it is […]

Potomac Protector

For more than a decade, Dean Naujoks has dedicated his career to protecting the Potomac River as a Potomac Riverkeeper. Dean is a fearless advocate—he’s not afraid to take on […]

Passion For Oysters

To the casual eye, oysters are nothing much to look at. Yet this humble shellfish that once populated the Chesapeake Bay’s bottoms in massive numbers, have inspired shooting wars, piracy, […]

Holding Back the Tide

This impressionist hybrid documentary traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, once the world’s oyster capital. Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying […]

Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery

In the early twentieth century, a mysterious ecological crisis nearly wiped out the fish that most people cared about in the largest freshwater ecosystem on earth—the Great Lakes. The impact […]

Chesapeake Rhythms

This film chronicles the essential rhythms of Chesapeake Bay: wind, tides, migrations of tundra swans, Monarch butterflies, shorebirds and eels. These ancient migrations, annual rituals repeated repeated for millennia, weave […]

Out of Plain Sight

From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia and Academy Award®-winning L.A. Times Studios, Out of Plain Sight is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern […]

Nkashi: Race for the Okavango

Follows the triumphs and challenges of three mokoro (dugout canoe) polers, Gobonamang “GB” Kgetho, Tjadza “Pretty” Tapologo, and Nkeletsang “Ralf” Moshupa, who are competing in the annual Nkashi Classic, a […]