Description

Imagine a world without fish.

Climate change affects more than the air we breathe; that extra carbon dioxide, the hidden cost of modern life, is dissolving in the oceans. Scientists around the world are now measuring and documenting an increase in ocean acidity, a state that will result in a bottom-up collapse of most of the world’s fisheries lasting millions of years.

This little-reported issue is particularly vivid to Sven Huseby. Raised in fishing communities from Norway to Alaska to Seattle, Sven’s own sense of identity is tightly bound to the life and lore of the seas. When he learned about this dramatic side effect of CO2 emissions, Sven committed himself to a personal odyssey to find answers. Sven’s travels take him around the world. His first destination is a pivotal Seattle conference of top oceanographic scientists. The journey then takes him to Alaska to meet with environmental activists, scientists and fishermen, and finally to his homeland of Norway to a remote Arctic research station where some of the first effects of acidification are being seen and measured. In the United States, Sven seeks out entrepreneurs, investors and politicians to discover out what is being done about these issues. Sven's visits with his five-year-old grandson, Elias, make the issue personal for us.

A Sea Change is both a personal and scientifically rigorous, sometimes humorous, and unflinchingly honest look at a reality that we all must act upon before the oceans of our youth are lost forever.

*DVD is printed on recycled cardstock with vegetable-based inks.

Festivals

United States
American Conservation Film Festival,Anchorage International Film Festival, Awareness Festival, Bioneers Moving Image Film Festival, Blue Ocean Film Fest, Cottonwood Creek Environmental Film Festival, Dumosa Award for Best Coastal Film, Dallas Video Festival, DC Environmental Film Festival, Delray Beach Film Festival, Downtown Film Festival - LA, Green Mountain Film Festival, Honolulu International Film Festival, Golden Kahuna Award, Lone Star International Film Festival, Mammoth Film Festival, Napa Wine Country Film Festival, Princeton Environmental Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, San Luis Obispo Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Sedona International Film Festival – Audience Award for Best World Documentary, Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival, Southern Appalachian International Film Festival, Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, Woods Hole Film Festival

International
Bangalore International Film Festival, India; DOCSDF, Mexico; Dokufest Kosovo – Green Docs Award; DOXA, Canada; Eco Film Festival, Romania; FASAI, Brazil; FICA, Brazil – Best Documentary Film; FICMA, Barcelona; Goodplanet Film Festival, Denmark; KIMFF, Nepal; Ourense, Spain; Planet in Focus, Canada; Polar Film Festival, Finland

Production Credits & Notes

Director/Co-Producer: Barbara Ettinger
Co-Producer: Sven Huseby
Co-Producer: Susan Cohn-Rockefeller
Associate Producer: Ben Kalina
Cinematographer: Claudia Raschke-Robinson
Editor: Toby Shimin