Seney Winter Film Festival

Do you have cabin fever? Join us Thursday, March 12, at 6:30 p.m. for a showing of "Plastic Paradise" and "Reef Reborn." The films will be shown in the Visitor Center Auditorium at Seney National Wildlife Refuge. The show is open to the public and is free of charge. Hot chocolate, coffee, tea, popcorn and cookies will be provided by the Seney Natural History Association. Please bring a mug.

Join us for the Winter Film Festival, Thursday nights in March! Movies will start promptly at 6:30 p.m. If evening activities are cancelled due to weather at the Tahquamenon or Manistique Area Schools, the films will be shown Tuesday, March 31, at 6:30 p.m.

The Night's Films

"Plastic Paradise" (57 minutes) - Thousands of miles away from civilization, Midway Atoll is in one of the most remote places on earth. And yet its become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, syphoning plastics from three distant continents. In this independent documentary film, journalist/filmmaker Angela Sun travels on a personal journey of discovery to uncover this mysterious phenomenon. Along the way she meets scientists, researchers, influencers and volunteers who shed light on the effects of our rabid plastic consumption and learns the problem is more insidious than we could have ever imagined.

"Reef Reborn" (50 minutes) - Coral reefs are the “rainforests of the sea,” home to nearly a quarter of the ocean’s marine species. In the calm, crystal clear waters off the north coast of Bali, miles of elaborate coral reefs once teemed with vibrant and colorful marine life. Most of Bali’s coral reefs were destroyed by a deadly combination of coral bleaching, partly from global warming and fishing with explosives and cyanide. But thanks to revolutionary new technology called "mineral accretion," the dream of the local community to once again have their reefs teeming with exotic marine life could soon become reality.