Scianema goes online is a virtual movie festival devoted to marine conservation, bringing experts and the general public together online to watch powerful documentaries followed by a discussion on each movie’s particular topic, where the public is invited to engage and debate.
The festival started with: The End of the Line (2009) by Rupert Murray followed by a discussion with Gonçalo Carvalho about the status of fisheries ten years later and a reflection on the Common Fisheries Policy. We continued with Sea of Life (2016) and a discussion the director Julia Barnes’s on climate change and environmental activism. The third session tackled the topics of plastic pollution with Deia Schlosberg’s Story of Plastic (2019). For this session Delphine Lévi Alvarès from the break free from plastic movement joined us for insights into how the current pandemic is affecting single use plastic consumption and how to take action. To close the festival we showed Sandgrains (2013) and a discussion about the social impacts of habitat destruction and overfishing with Gabriel Manrique the co-director of the movie.