Greenpeace Thailand and Documentary Club present an online screening of Entangled, an award-winning documentary, via Doc Club on Demand until Aug 30.
Directed by David Abel and Andy Laub, the 75-minute movie tells about how climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world's most endangered species, North America's most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both.
It chronicles the efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction, the impact of those efforts on the lobster industry, and how the US National Marine Fisheries Service has struggled to balance the vying interests.
There are now estimated to be less than 400 right whales whose main threat to their survival, scientists say, is millions of lobster lines that stretch from New England up through Atlantic Canada.
Exacerbating that threat is climate change, which has sparked a collapse in the whale's food supply in the warming waters of the Gulf of Maine, forcing them to search for food in areas where they had rarely been seen before. As a result, their population has been plummeting.
The documentary won a Jackson Wild award, known as the Oscars of nature films. It also won Best Feature Film at the Water Docs Film Festival, Best Conservation Film at the Mystic Film Festival, and the John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival.
The online screening comes with Thai subtitles and is available free of charge. Viewers are invited to write a movie review or share their opinions on what they like most about the movie on their own social media accounts with #Entangled and #OceanDefenders. They will have a chance to win a fabric face mask from Greenpeace. They are also invited to join a talk on Saturday from 7-8.30pm.
To register to see the movie visit act.gp/3g1l477.
