HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN (The Movie)

By 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
Perdue University

Every two years we make enough plastic to be the equilivent to the weight of the seven billion people on earth.
Capt. Charles Moore

An American diver broke the record for deepest submarine dive ever and found something disheartening at the bottom of the ocean — a plastic bag.
BBC News reports

The fish eat the plastic.
We eat the fish.
FIGURE IT OUT.

How Blue Is Your Ocean
by Joe Pisciotta
a madridSTREETfilm

If I may...

A few years ago I came across a photo of this giant sea creature. The whales mouth was wide open. It looked like it had swallowed the garden section from K Mart. It was disgusting. I couldn't get this image out of my head. I used creative commons video and have made a series of films. The Short Cut Film Festival in Serbia just awarded HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN with the Best Ecological Film Award while the Cardiff Int'l Film Festival in Wales awarded HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN with Best Documentary and 'BLUE' was a finalist in the Italian festival Porto Cesareo.

Around the globe 28 festivals to date.

As you will see below...England, Wales, Italy, Russia, Hungary, Rotterdam, Serbia, Germany, Portugal, Iran, India and the U.S.

I know I've struck a nerve.

For the past 5 years I've been making documentaries. From films on incarceration and its effect on the family.

FATHER'S DAY on PBS
https://youtu.be/DAyIY0MXir8

A WOUND THAT NEVER HEALS
https://vimeo.com/240503014

which screened in 2018 at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 48th Annual Legislative Conference Short Film Festival in Washington DC.

to stories on the YPJ in Syria...

YPJ: BLUEPRINT FOR A FUTURE
https://filmfreeway.com/YPJBlueprintForAFuture

which was nominated for Best Documentary at the Grand OFF Film Festival in Poland...my heart has been my driving motivation.

HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN is no different.

The film bypasses politics, socioeconomics, race, religion....

We have only 1 planet and 1 world ocean.

We can't keep dumping garbage into the ocean.

Whether there's climate change or not, the ocean is our only one constant.

FILM FESTIVALS

2021

HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Di-Segna il tuo mare (Italy)
OCEAN 4 UNTENABLE Di-Segna il tuo mare (Italy)
GHOST NET ZERO DetectiveFEST (Russia)
GHOST NET ZERO Int'l Nature Film Festival (Hungary)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Wildlife Film Festival (Rotterdam)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Short Cut Film Festival (Serbia)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Porto Cesareo Film Festival (Italy)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Kunstfest Weimar Film Festival (Germany)
GHOST NET ZERO Golden Tree Int'l Film Festival (Germany)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Burien Film Festival
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Internacional de Imagem de Natureza (Portugal)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Cardiff Int'l Film Festival (UK)

2020

HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Festival de Curtas do Faial (Portugal)
GHOST NET ZERO Int'l Underwater Film Festival (Serbia)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Golden Tree Int'l Film Festival (Germany)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Int'l Nature Film Festival (Hungary)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN DetectiveFEST (Russia)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Pop Up Film Festival (PUFF MT)

2019

HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN London Eco Film Festival
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Roshd Int'l Film Festival (Iran)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Int'l Underwater Film Festival (Serbia)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN Barnes Film Festival (UK)

Online FILM FESTIVALS

2021

Global Conscience.world
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN

UNCG Sustainability Shorts Film Competition 2021
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN

NEW GENERATION FILM FESTIVAL (Serbia)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN

2020

KAUTIK INT'L FILM FESTIVAL (India)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN

DISACCORDI INT'L FILM FESTIVAL (Italy)
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN

AWESOME CON FILM FEST
HOW BLUE IS YOUR OCEAN

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