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Our personal connections to the ocean are as diverse as the ocean itself. The festival films follow some of these connections and provide you with a visual opportunity to explore our oceans more intimately through a variety of Alaska based films, while also taking you to oceans abroad through a selection of films from the annual San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. In April 2005 the ocean film festival will be traveling to the Kodiak WhaleFest and other Alaskan communities through out the rest of the year to further link the diverse ocean connections that exist within our state.
Highlights for March 2005 Alaska Oceans Film Festival
- Ocean Fury: Tsunamis in Alaska
26 min, USA, 2004
Kurt Byers
Tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes - can we ever cope with such powerful natural phenomena? Life is inherently risky, but the tsunamis spawned by Alaska's 1964 earthquake, which hit 9 on the Richter Scale, taught us how to sidestep at least their most disastrous effects.
- Short Infinity
 64 min, Canada, 2004
Kun Chang
In the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence lies Entry Island - a tiny oasis covering only seven square kilometres, but constituting a world in itself. Its 126 inhabitants live from fishing and the sea. Combining playful sequences with fast-paced editing and surprising visual compositions, director Kun Chang helps viewers discover the beauty of the land and the character of the people, who are proud of their island paradise. But it is a paradise that is slipping away. The teenagers have to go away to school, the elementary classes have few pupils left, and some families are preparing their children's future elsewhere. However, for those who want a simple life, in harmony with nature and the sea, Entry Island has everything they need.
A Slow Boat to Somewhere
24 min, USA, 2004
Jon Bowermaster
A Polynesian freighter - a floating K-Mart - makes a 3,000-mile monthly circuit among the planet's most remote atolls. Crews risk everything to bring life-giving supplies to Tahitians threatened by rising sea levels and Western ways.- WWF
8 min, Anchorage, 2003
Dan Olsen, Eric Parsons
A hilarious look at our marine mammal world through the eyes of a keen scientist with a sharp wit.
Coral Gardens of the Aleutians
10 min, Alaska, 2002
Jon Heifetz and Bob Stone, NOAA Fisheries
First explored by scientists in manned submersibles in July of 2002, the Aleutian's deep-sea coral gardens provide an unexpected diversity of life and color in the dark depths of the Aleutian Archipelago. Experience the exhilaration of scientists as they capture first ever footage of these under water ecosystems.
Alaska's deep sea corals recently protected: The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council has closed 60% of the Aleutian Islands region to bottom trawling - approximately 375,000 square nautical miles of Alaskan waters. Find out more!
- Rendered: Surf Extract
10 min, Alaska, 2005
Scott Baxter
Where in the world can you participate in a competition that pits your hunting, fishing, and surfing skills against other "well-rounded" outdoors folks? Alaska, of course! This local film maker weaves ocean images from Yakutat and Montague Island to reveal the Alaskan style surf culture.
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