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One Planet: The 19th Annual International Ocean Film Festival

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we're discussing this year’s International Ocean Film Festival in San Francisco, which will be in person this year after two years online.

The four-day festival, which begins on April 7th, features more than 50 films from around the globe covering a wide range of issues, including coastal island culture and conservation, the true cost of deep sea mining, and fish with superpowers. How do films help us celebrate and protect the ocean?

Guests:

Ana Blanco, executive director of theInternational Ocean Film Festival

Maarten van Rouveroy, documentary filmmaker, cameraman, editor, and director of In Too Deep - The True Cost of Deep Sea Mining

Howard Hall, world-renowned zoologist, marine photographer, and director of Soul of the Ocean

Michele Hall, wildlife filmmaker and producer of Soul of the Ocean

Cheryl Dean, filmmaker and co-director of The Witness is a Whale

Web Resources:

International Ocean Film Festival

Howard Hall Productions

Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

Malihe Razazan is the senior producer of KALW's daily call-in program, Your Call.
Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.