The Water Brothers – Plastic Ocean & Snows of the Nile

The Water Brothers – Plastic Ocean
A film by Alex and Tyler Mifflin
The Brothers embark on a sailing adventure to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to the remote Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive collection of plastic waste congregated together by swirling ocean currents known as gyres. What does the patch look like? How does it affect wildlife and the seafood we eat? Where in the world did this inconceivably massive amount of plastic come from and from what human activities, and more importantly, what can be done about it? The Water Brothers bring us some answers to this strange and disturbing phenomenon. Run time: 25 min.

Snows of the Nile
A film by Nathan Dappen and Neil Losin
Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains rise 5,000 meters from the heart of Africa. At their summits are some of Earth’s only equatorial glaciers. But these ‘Mountains
of the Moon,’ whose existence caused a sensation in Europe when they were first climbed in 1906, are changing fast. Snows of the Nile follows two scientist/photographers on an ambitious expedition to re-capture historical glacier imagery from the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda. If they could retrace the steps of the Duke of Abruzzi’s legendary 1906 expedition and re-capture the famous glacier photographs taken by Vittorio Sella, they could visualize the impacts of a century of climate change. Run time: 20 min.

WILD FILMS AT THE LIBRARY is a free series of award-winning international wildlife films selected from the International Wildlife Film Festival. The International Wildlife Film Festival was established in 1977 in Missoula, Montana with a mission to promote awareness, knowledge and understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellence in film, television and other media.