Join us for a night of short Patagonia films related to marine protected areas. There will be a Q&A with Kate Masury from Eating With the Ecosystem and Emma Deloughry from Save the Sound.

Corazón Solado (27 min.): In Corazón Salado by Patagonia Films, Patagonia Global Sport Activist Ramón Navarro joins with the Kawésqar—a traditionally nomadic Indigenous community who had their practices stripped from them during the colonization of Chilean Patagonia—in a fight for their homeland and ancestral waters. The salmon industry is creeping deeper and deeper into the region, polluting and destroying its wild and delicate ecosystem. For the locals, the fish no longer bite here, forcing the Kawésqar to stray farther from home to feed and support their families. Navarro connects with Leticia Caro and her father, Don Reinaldo, a traditional fisherman and elder, who show him the damaging effects of the salmon farms and the need to establish a marine protected area in the Kawésqar National Park. Along the way, they find common ground in their love for the sea.

The Custodians (12 min.): Over the last 40 years, commercial overfishing and bottom trawling have turned Scotland’s once-thriving west coast waters into sparse, lifeless deserts. Patagonia Films’ The Custodians follows the work of four locals from the West Coast of Scotland are reclaiming their natural coastlines. They’re restoring wildlife, creating sustainable industries and showing us how we can work with, not against, our ocean.

Madre Mar (11 min.): The local people have worked the waters of the Sado Estuary Natural Reserve in Portugal for hundreds of years, coexisting with the dolphins, fish and shellfish supported by the region’s rich seagrass meadows. Then big industry arrived, bringing with it the devastating practice of bottom trawling and its scouring of the seafloor—which has helped wipe out nearly two-thirds of the ocean’s seagrass meadows globally. Raquel Gaspar, marine biologist, mother and cofounder of the Portuguese NGO Ocean Life, is on a journey to protect and re-meadow Sado’s seagrass habitat. In Patagonia Films’ Mãe Mar, Raquel teams up with a group of local fisherwomen to restore this crucial piece of the ocean’s ecosystem–one that provides habitats for sea life and 10 percent of the carbon captured in the ocean.

For the Love of the Sea (12 min.): In Patagonia Films’ For the Love of the Sea, a family pioneers a movement to revive the Welsh coastline and a fishing industry that locals have depended on for decades. The documentary short follows Câr y Môr, the first community-owned regenerative ocean farm in Wales. Cultivating versatile crops like seaweed with zero-input techniques, the Haines family reveals the powerful ways that the ocean can help fight climate change while nourishing people in more ways than one.