2024 | United States | Short

Seaweed Stories

  • - - 30 mins
  • Director | Jake Sumner
  • Writer | Gabriel Nussbaum, Jake Sumner
  • Producer | Lucy Sumner for Lonely Whale, Barret Hacia, Jake Sumner

STATUS: Released

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Narrated by Forest Whitaker, Seaweed Stories is a vibrant, global look at the wonders of seaweed, and some of the extraordinary stories and characters whose lives have been entangled by this often overlooked marine plant which may hold answers to some of humanity’s biggest challenges. Seaweed Stories includes insights from a Silicon Valley startup creating plastic alternatives from algae, to the Indigenous Shinnecock Kelp Farmers using seaweed to prove their sovereign right to coastal land, to a scientist in South Korea supporting seaweeds’ sexual reproduction to create new species that can withstand the effects of a changing climate.

Documentary Environmental Marine Biology Seaweed Sustainability
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