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Follow on Google News | The Waters Edge Cinema Presents "Science On Screen" April 19-22Four-Day Mini-Festival Featuring New and Old films About Nature and Ecology
By: Provincetown Film Society The program begins on Friday, April 19 at 7:45 p.m. with FUTURE WEATHER, a coming-of-age drama written and directed by Jenny Deller about a 13-year-old loner, Lauduree (Perla Haney-Jardine) The following day, Saturday, April 20, at 2:00 p.m., is time for John Huston’s 1956 adaptation of Herman Melville’s classic whaling novel, MOBY DICK. Gregory Peck plays Captain Ahab, who is monomaniacal is his quest for a giant white sperm whale, and a young Richard Basehart plays the inexperienced crewman, Ishmael, who narrates the tale. Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Charles “Stormy” Mayo, Cofounder and Director of the Habitat Studies Program at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. That evening, Saturday, April 20 at 7:00 p.m., the feature presentation is WHALING CITY, the story of an independent fisherman who must fight to save his boat, his livelihood, and his way of life. Directed by Jay Burke. Special Guest Speaker: director Jay Burke. On Sunday, April 21 at 2:00 p.m., the festival will screen the new and award-winning documentary, CHASING ICE, directed by Jeff Orlowski. The film follows National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he captures a multiyear record of the world’s rapidly diminishing glaciers and ice pack. Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Mark Borrelli, Director of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies Marine Geology Program. A special program called WHALE RESEARCH AND RESCUE is scheduled for Sunday, April 21 at 5:00 p.m. This includes up-close footage of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies at work disentangling endangered whales, shot from the head-cams of those involved. Also featured is the 2007 documentary OCEAN VOYAGERS, codirected by PCCS colleague Feodor Pitcairn and narrated by Meryl Streep, which follows a newborn humpback whale calf and his 40-foot-long mother on a 7,000-mile journey. Special Guest Speaker: Scott Landry, Director of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies Marine Animal Disentanglement Program. Closing out the festival, on Monday, April 22 (Earth Day) at 2:00 p.m., is the new documentary TRASHED, starring Jeremy Irons, who travels in the film around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution, exploring the extent and effects of global waste. This meticulous, brave journey takes Irons (and viewers) from skepticism to sorrow to horror and finally to hope. Directed by Candida Brady. Special Guest Speakers: Laura Ludwig, Project Director for the Marine Debris Program, and Jesse Mechling, Marine Education Director, both from the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. Admission to the festival can be purchased as a festival pass for $40 (for all six screenings) or as individual tickets of $10 each ($8 for seniors and members of PFS, PCCS, and Coolidge; $6 for students). Tickets or passes can be purchased online at www.watersedgecinema.org (click on “What’s Playing” and scroll to “Coming Attractions” End
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