OCEAN with David Attenborough (2025)
Tuesday, August 26, 5pm
Aspen Film Isis Theatre | 406 E Hopkins Ave, Aspen
$10 General Admission
About the Film
Documentary | 95 MIN | UK
This is David Attenborough’s greatest message of hope, revealing 100 years of incredible ocean discovery and why there’s nowhere more important for all life on Earth than the ocean.
Co-produced by Open Planet Studios and Silverback Films, OCEAN with David Attenborough showcases the wonder of life under the seas and exposes the realities and challenges facing our ocean as never-before-seen, from destructive fishing techniques to mass coral reef bleaching.
Yet the story is one of optimism, with Attenborough pointing to inspirational stories from around the world to show that the ocean can recover to a glory beyond anything anyone alive has ever seen.
Directed By |
Colin Butfield, Toby Nowlan, and Keith Scholey |
Event Details
Global Choices and Aspen Film are proud to present the film OCEAN with David Attenborough for one night only on the big screen. The screening will be preceded by an in-person conversation between well-known climate change visionary solution strategist and advocate, Global Choices Co-Founder Sally Ann Ranney, and renowned marine biologist, oceanographer, National Geo Resident Explorer, author, and lecturer, Dr. Sylvia Earle.
OCEAN speaks to the beauty and fragility of the world’s oceans and specifically Global Choices’ mission to protect the Central Arctic Ocean. This evening presents an educational opportunity to inform about the threat to the region and Global Choices’ work to protect the area and to build awareness about this urgent call to action.
Global Choices is an all-women-led international nonprofit headquartered in Aspen Valley and London. It is focused solely on the polar regions, the Arctic foremost, because it is unraveling the fastest with global climate regulation implications.
Special Guests:
Sally Ann Ranney
Sally Ranney, President and Co-founder of Global Choices and Arctic Angels, is an environmental visionary with 5 decades of experience in natural resources, climate change, biodiversity, and renewable energy policy. She is President & Co-founder of Global Choices, and Chair of the Conservation Committee of the Explorer’s Club; President Emeritus and Co-founder of the American Renewable Energy Institute/AREDAY Summit, and an Advisor to the Getches-Wilkinson Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado. She has worked with three U.S. presidents, with a Presidential Appointment by R. Reagan.
She serves on the Board of the National Wildlife Federation and co-founded Corridors of Life, a satellite GIS project identifying and advocating for a network of wildlife corridors throughout the Rocky Mountains of the US and Canada. Sally has been recognized with numerous awards, including the prestigious Horace Albright Award, the International Conservation Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award, Lighthawk, and the Riviera Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Dr. Sylvia Earle
Marine biologist, oceanographer, National Geo Explorer in Residence; Founder, Mission Blue & Ocean Hope Spots; Holds records for deep dives & walk on the ocean floor; first woman Chief Scientist at NOAA; Developer of deep ocean submersibles; Author
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