The screening and discussion will be held at the Marguerite Kent Repass Ocean Conservation Center on the Marine Lab campus on Pivers Island.  Free parking is available.

"Strange Days on Planet Earth” is an award-winning documentary series narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor and environmentalist Edward Norton and produced by Sea Studios Foundation in collaboration with National Geographic Television.

The series focuses on the consequences human activities such as pollution or nonsustainable development have on environmental and human health worldwide. Episode 6 of the series, which will be shown at the free screening, focuses on the negative impacts plastics have on the health of ocean and freshwater animals and habitats, and on the health and livelihoods of humans who depend on them.

Following the screening, Mark Shelley, executive director of Sea Studios Foundation, will lead a discussion about the film and the foundation’s global campaign to stop plastic from contaminating the planet’s waters.

The episode of “Strange Days on Planet Earth” will be the final screening of Eco-Cine 2009, an environmental film series organized by Green Wave, a student-led sustainability organization at the Marine Lab. Green Wave hopes to make the film series an annual event.

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Contact: Lesley Thorne, (252) 622-8414, Lesley.thorne@duke.edu